456 ORD. XXV. Lomentaceee. HZMATOXYLUM CAMPECHIANUM. 
lignum rubrum Indicum spinosissimum, colutez foliis, floribus. 
-luteis, siliquis maximis. Herm. Par. Bat. 333. Hematoxylum. 
Long’s Jam. vol. 3. p. 754. Miller’s Dict. Jacquin, Ob. Bot. 
, p- 20. * 
Class Decandria. Order Monogynia. ZL. Gen. Plant. 525. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-partitus. Petala 5. Caps. lanceolata, 1-locw 
laris, 2-valvis: valvis navicularibus. 
THE Campechianum is the only species of the Hematoxylunr 
hitherto discovered ; it is a much smaller tree than the Guaiacum, 
and both the trunk and the branches are extremely crooked, and 
covered with dark-coloured rough bark; the smaller ramifications 
are numerous, close, prickly, or beset with strong sharp spines; 
the leaves are pinnated, generally composed of four or five pair of 
pinne, of an irregular oval shape, obliquely nerved, and obtusely 
situated at the top; the flowers grow in racemi, or in close 
regular terminal spikes, and appear in March; the calyx divides 
into five oblong obtuse segments, of a brownish purple colour; 
the petals are five, patent, obtusely lance-shaped, and of a reddish 
yellow colour; the stamina are somewhat hairy, tapering, of un- 
equal length, shorter than the corolla, and the antherz are small 
and oval; the style is nearly the length of the stamina, and the 
germen becomes a long double valved pod, which contains many 
oblong compressed, or somewhat kidney-shaped seeds. 
This tree is a native of South America, and grows to the highest 
‘perfection at Campeachy, in the Bay of Honduras, whence the 
seeds were brought to Jamaica, in 1715, with a view of propagating 
it as an article of commercial export. And though it does not 
appear to have answered this purpose so fully as could have been 
wished, yet we are told that in some parts of the island, especially 
where the ground is swampy, this tree, in the course of three 
years, will rise to the height of ten feet, and by this quick and 
luxuriant growth, soon overrun and destroy the neighbouring. 
