318 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



dark green above, and pale green below, of a soft texture. Tlie leaves and branches 

 are alternate and set at pretty equal distances, and, at the ends of the branches, there 

 are generally eight or ten young leaves growing close to each other, and making a very 

 handsome appearance From the axils a single peduncle conies forth, divided into 

 two,, each of which bears a large awd beautiful flower of a pale red colour, variegated 

 with dark purple. The legume is flat and often eighteen inches long. It is a native of 

 the East Indies. 



Page 86. After the article Betel Nut, insert, " In Grose's Voyage to the East- 

 Indies (Edition 1772, v. 1, p. 237) after describing the nut of the Areca, he adds, " but 

 1 would not advise any one to taste it green, since it affects the animal spirits so power- 

 fully, that, instantaneously as it were, those who are not used to it fall down as in a 

 trance. It is true they recover presentlv, and without any ill consequences." 



Page i<6. After the article Bitterwood, insert, ' Dr. Lettsom recommends bitter r 

 wood in hysterical atony, to which the female sex is prone, as it affords vigour and re- 

 lief to the system, especially when united with the vito iolum album and still more with 

 the acid of some absorbent. In dyspepsia, arising from hard drinking, and also 

 in diarrhoeas, the quassia is recommended," 



Page 1-58. -After the article Cashaw, insert, " The following is recommended as an 

 effectual receipt for curing a horse that has eaten Cashaws : Take one pint of rum, 

 one table, .spoonful and a half of salt, two wine-glassfuls of gum guaiacum and myrrh; 

 all to be well. mixed .in a pint of water, and given to the animal as a drench, which 

 .should be repeated until relief is obtained. Exercise should be used after the drench." 



Page 227. Add the following exports ot Coffee : 



i, lbs. coffee. 



From SOtli September, 1809-, to 30th September, 1810 25,885,235 



1810, 181 I 17,460,068 



181), 1S12 18,481,y86 



Page 260. After the article Date Plum, -insert, " The date plum is also known by file- 

 name of Wattle-Prcc. It flowers in October and November. Some have both male 

 and hermaphrodite flowers, and others contain them separate. The blossoms of all 

 grow from the axils of the leaves. The fruitis spherical, four-celled, and is eaten by 

 nggroes." 



Page 279. After the article Ebony, mountain, insert the following : 



No English Xa m c. EC L I PTA . 



Ci.. 19, or. 2. Syngenesia polygamia superflua. Nat. or. Corymbiferce. 



This generic name is derived from the Greek word for imperfect or deficient. 



Gen. cfiar. Common calyx many leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, nearly equal, in a 

 double series : compound corolla rayed, one of the rays most plentiful, female \. 

 of the disk hermaphrodite; Proper of the hermaphrodite tubular, four-cleft, up- 

 right, outwardly nieally ; in the females very narrow, ligulate. Stamens, in the 

 hermaphrodites, four .very short filaments ; anther uylindric. Pistil, in the her < 

 maprodites, lias an oblong germ, a middling style, and a two-cleft, spreading stig- 

 ma; the pericap the unchanged ealyx. Seed in the hermaphrodites oblong, com r 



nrei 



