416 ORD. XXIV. Papilionacece, GHOFFROYA INERMIS. 
GEOFFROYA INERMIS. SMOOTH GEOFFROYA, 
: Or, BASTARD CABBAGE-TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Geoffrza. Pharm. Edinb. Geoffraea jamaicencis 
inermis. Wright's Description and Use of the Cabbage-bark Tree 
of Jamaica. Phil. Trans. vol. 67. p. 507. Geoffroya inermis, 
foliolis lanceolatis. Swartz. Prodr. 106. 
Class Diadelphia. Ord. Decandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 876. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-fidus. Drupa ovata. Nucleus compressus. 
Sp. Ch. G. inermis, foliolis lanceolatis. Swartz. lc. 
THIS tree rises to a considerable height, and towards the top : 
sends off several branches: the wood is hard enough to. admit of 
being polished: the external bark is smooth and grey, internally 
it is black and furrowed: the leaves are pinnated, consisting of 
several pairs of pinnae, which are lance-shaped, pointed, veined, 
smooth, standing in pairs upon short footstalks, but with an odd 
one at the end: the flowers appear in clusters upon large branched 
spikes: the calyx is bell-shaped, and divided into five short obtuse 
segments: the corolla is of the papilionaceous kind, of a pale rose 
<colour, consisting of a vevillum, which is roundish, concave, and 
notched at the apex; two ale, which are oblong, obtuse, concave, 
and somewhat shorter than the vexillum, and an obtuse divided 
carina: the filaments are ten, nine of which are united at the base : 
the anthere are simple, and roundish: the germen is oval, and 
furnished with a tapering curved style, which is terminated by a 
hooked stigma: the fruit is pulpy, resembling a small plum, and 
containing a hard nut or seed, separated into two valves, and 
marked on each side with a longitudinal furrow. 
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