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the bottom of the nut : cotyledons leafy : radicle in- 

 cumbent over the upper fissure of the cotyledons. 



Shrubs, rarely trees. — Name, from the Celtic rhudd, redy on 

 account of the colour of the fruit. 



1. Rhus Metopium. Jamaica Sumach. 



Leaves pinnate bijugate with an odd one very gla- 

 brous, leaflets petiolulated rotundo-oval very entire. — 

 De Cand. 



Terebinthus maxima, pinnis paucioribus majoribus atque 

 rotundioribus, Sloa7ie, II. 90. t. 199. f. 3. — Metopium, Browne, 

 177. t. 13. f. 3. — Borbonia fructu corallino, Plum. ic. 61. — 

 Rhus Metopium, Lin7i. Amcen. V. 895. 



HAB. Common on limestone hills. 



FL. January, February. 



A shrubby tree, 15-20 feet in height: branches erect, 

 terete, glabrous. Leaves at the end of the branches, impari- 

 pinnate; leaflets petiolulated, 2-paired with an odd one, ovali- 

 rotund, obtuse (sometimes emarginate) at the apex, siibacumi- 

 nate and, in the lateral leaflets, unequal at the base, entire, 

 nerved and veined, green and shining above, paler beneath, 

 very glabrous : petiole subterete, slightly channelled above. 

 Racemes axillary, longer than the leaves, solitary, subsimple. 

 Calyx 5-fid, persistent. Drupe oblong, glabrous, shining, of a 

 scarlet colour : nut chartaceous : funicle large, expanded, cover- 

 ing one of the edges of the seed. 



This shrubby tree has long been confounded with the Moao- 

 NOBEA cocciNEA, the true Hog-gum tree. 



2. Rhus arborea. Tree Sumach. 



Leaves 3-foliate, leaflets lanceolato-oblong obso- 

 letely serrulated subglabrous above pubescent beneath, 

 peduncles axillary and solitary 1 -flowered. 



Toxicodendron arboreum, Mill. Diet. No. 8. — Sloane, Cat- 

 170 — Rhus arborea, De Cand. Prod. II. 73. 



HAB. The Falls on the Windward road. Near Hanson's 

 Salt-pond. 



FL. August? 



A tree, about 80 feet in height, with spreading branches. 

 Leaves at the ends of the branches, petiolate, 3-foliate ; leaflets 

 petiolulated, lanceolato-oblong, rounded and apiculated at the 

 apex, obsoletely crenulato-serrulated, subglabrous above, pubes- 

 cent beneath, nerved, membranaceous : petiole elongated, terete, 

 pubescent. Peduncles axillary, half the length of the petiole, 



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