278 H OUT US JAMAICENSIS. white - 



lobed stigma ; the pericarp a two-celled capsule, two-valved, with the valves 

 gaping outwardly at the sides ; seeds imbricate. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



JAMAICENSE. JAMAICA. 



Arborescens fol is ovatisoppositis, ma mis sustentacula longis incidtn- 

 tibus. Browne, p. 165. 

 Fins is a small tree, with a branching smooth trunk; branches long, loose, round, 

 waned; leaves approximating, towards the upper parts of the branches petioled, oppo- 

 site, large, oblong, with a short point, < nine, nerved, smooth on both sides. Petioles 

 short, thickish, round, smooth ; flowers in a son of panicle ; peduncles axillary, oppo- 

 site, longer than the leaves, round, compressed, smooth, three-parted above, with tri- 

 chotomous branchlets, the last one-flowered, corolla rather I. ,61 a yellowish 

 green, tube half an inch long, regular, narrower at the throat, bei ipetiing five-cor- 

 nered, then cylindric ; divisions of the border acute, almost upright ; filaments the 

 length of the tube, from the base above the middle very hairy, a little inclined ; anthers 

 vertical, oblong, tawny; germ ob-conical, smooth. Sfttrlz. Brow io says this plant 

 was found abount Manchionea) rising ^jen< rally twelve or fourteen feet, Mr Anthony 

 Robinson says Ire found it plentifully on the road from Toby Abbott's to Clarendon 

 Cross, where it was known by the name of White-Thorn Some people, he says, 

 scrape the exterior hark from the root, and havin ed the iiil a from Uie 



woody part, and bruised it, apply it k> iiie affected part in tooth-ache, which n i* said 

 effects a cure. 



WHITE-WOOD OR CEDAR. EIC 



Cl. 11, or. 2 Didt/namia an Nat. or.. Personat*. 



Gen. Char. See Irene!; Oak, p. 309. 



LEUCOXYLON. WHITE.WOOD. 



Nerio affinis arbor siltquosa folio pahnato sett digi ' >. 



Sloane, v. 2, p. < ; J. PenHiphylkt etrborca, jiere sub-rubUo. 

 Browne, p. 263. 



Leaves digitate j leaflets quite entire, w te-acum tate. 

 The trunk of this tree is of a mid.! with upright stiff branches; leaves ter- 



minating, having five and soi i or eight -. which are broad-lanceolate, 



nerved, veined, and smooth Fl ting, large, rose-coloured ; ca- 



!\ \ two-lipped] upp p i in led, 1 iwer bifid, with ovate sharp teeth ; corolla irregu- 

 lar, tub Ion .i ittle swelling at bottom ; border two-lipped, upj 

 bifid, I, waved, somewhat -villose ; anther; 

 I, b *. >i ... very long pendulous, cylindric-li Swartz. This trei 

 i as lai is - ml, having a very great straight runk covered with -p. 

 in whitish bai'k, and a verv hard wh The petioles are three or four in- 

 ches long Ti , s fall oft" tor si neweeks, and then the flowers com< out of the 

 ends ot tie twigs, several togei in6h-long peduncles; they are while, like those 

 of stramonium, II offverysqon. The pod is five or six inches long, brownish, 

 square, and marked with sev< ral eminent lines. It grows in the lowlan .; bj river sides, 



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