2$2 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. wild 



in this species, are nretty soft and luxuriant. All parts of the plant are equally sharp, 

 and, like that, used in resolutive baths. Browne. 



6. ELUTF.RIA. 



Frut'cosum erect urn et subvillosum, foliis cardcto-dcumir<atis, spicis 

 terminalibus. Browne, p. 347, C. 4 Cluytia. Linneus. 



Leaves ovate-acuminate, entire, scattered, smooth, scaly, silver-coloured below; 

 stem arboreous ; racemes composite ; axillary. Sxv. 



Browne calls this plant the Sea-side Balsam, larger than the other species, growing fre- 

 quently to the height of four or five feet, and commonly found in low moist bottoms. 

 The leaves and tender tops are said to heal sores of all sorts very well, and frequently 

 used in baths and fomentations. On breaking the more tendi r branches ofany of these 

 species, a large drop of thick balsamic liquor oozes from the wound, from whence they 

 have obtained the appellation of balsams. Browne. This is the cluytia eluteria of Lin- 

 neus, which Swartz made a species of croton, but has some c.oubi if Browne's be the 

 same plant. 



This tree is common near the sea-shore, and rises to about twenty feet. The leaves 

 are from two to three inches long and of a proportional breadth. On the upper side they 

 are waved and of a rustv colour ; on the under ribbed, and of a fine glossy or silvery ap- 

 pearance. From the axillae they have numerous small spikes, with a great quantity of 

 white, small, and fragrant flowers. The capsule is tricocous like other crotons. The 

 bark is the same as the cascarilla and elutheria of the shops. Wright. 



7. PALLKNS. PALE. 



Leaves ovate-acuminate, quite entire, smooth on both sides ; racemes solitary, 

 erect, terminating ; calyxes larger than the fruit. 



This rises with a shrubby stem to the height of seven or eight feet, is covered with an 

 ash-coloured bark, and divides at top into many slender branches ; some of these are 

 terminated by five or six branchlets, all arising from the s une joint ; these are naked be- 

 low, but towards their upper part they have smooth lanceolate leaves, about two inches 

 and a half long, and three quarters of an inch broad, on pretty long footstalks; the 

 flowers are produced in short spikes at the ends of the branches, i;re of an herbaceous 

 colour, and are inclosed in large green calyxes. 



?. BALSAMIFERUM. BALSAM, 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, scabrous, very entire, tomeutose beneath. 

 This is an upright, branched, diffused, shrub, three or four feet high, very sweet 

 smelling, covered all over with a close yellowish nap, and abounding with a balsamic, 

 thickish, odorous, brownish, sap, which exudes wherever a cut or rupture is made. 

 Leaves petioled, green above, ferruginous yellow underneath, thick, scatteringly alter- 

 nate, two or three inches long, numerous. Soikes sub-terminating from the divisions 

 of the younger branchlets ; flowers small with white petals. It much resembles the hu- 

 mile but the leaves are not cordate. Jacquin. 



9. GLOBOSUM. GLOBE. 



Leaves ovate, obtuse, entire; peduncles in pairs; flowers dioecious, fruits globu- 

 lar, cchinate- hispid. Sw. 



10. PUPULIPOLIUM. POPLAR-LEAVED. 



Leaves 



