OMISSIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



VOLUME FIRST. 



PAGE 7 After the article Adenanthera, insert, " This is known by the name of 

 Grand Anther or False Flower Fence : In Jamaica, where it lias been pretty generally 

 cultivated, and has thriven .well, it has been called Circassian pea-tree, from the beau- 

 ty of the pea, of which necklaces are made, which, on the trees first producing fruit in 

 Jamaica, scld for a very high price." 



Page 9. After the article Akee, insert, " The method of dressing the white 

 lobes of the Akee is to lay them a few minutes in salt and water, then scalding them in 

 boilin water, and frying them with butter. They are also a pleasant and wholesome 

 ingredient in soup. 'The negroes in Guinea eat the fruit raw. The husk lathers and. 

 washes like soap." 



The following plant, discovered in Jamaica by Swartz, should have followed the 

 Akee : 



No English Name. - ALCHORNEA LATIFOLIA. 



Cl. 22, OR. 13. Diarcia monodelphia. ' 



This was so named after mr. Stainsby Alchorne, apothecary of London. 



G f.n. char. Male calyx a three or five-leavec! perianth ; leaflets ovate, concave, 

 equal, coloured, deciduous: no corolla: Stamens eight equal filaments, scarce 

 longer than.the calyx, slightly connate at the base; anthers ovate, upright; pissil 

 a rudiment. The female calyx is a one-leafed perianth, four or five-toothed,, 

 teeth equal, small ; no corolla; the pistil has a superior twin germ, two very long 

 filiform styles, with simple acute stigmas ; the pericarp is a berried capsule, two~ 

 seeded, two-celled, tvvo-valved ; the seeds are solitary, large, oblong. 



Page 20. After the article Anchovy-Pear, insert, " The wood of this tree has 

 been found to split easily and to make good light staves and heading for sugar hogs- 

 heads. They grow to a considerable size, and mr. A. Robinson mentions one that he 

 measured, near six feet in circumference, the leaf better than four feet in length 

 and one broad. Its mode of vegetation is this : as the nut lies upon moist ground, the 

 kernel protrudes a root from one end, and gradually elevates it, while the plume rises 



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