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Periantium Monophyllum minimum quadridcntatum. 

 Corolla "Tetrapetala^ pet alii lanceolatis refleSlcntibus. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quatuor erefta, longitudine petalorum Jloris- f anther* 



cordato-jagittata. 

 Piftillum. Germen Jubrotundum leniter deprejfum ; ftylus nullus ; ftigmata 



duo glanduloja jubrotunda parva J'ummo germini impofita. 

 'Pericarpium &c. dejideraniur. 



This fmall tree grows in the road that leads from New Greenwich to Liguanea; 

 it feldom riles above ten or twelve feet in height, and is plentifully furnilhed with 

 branches towards the top : the flowers are very numerous, and blow generally before 

 the ihooting of the leaves, or very foon after. 



CHLOROXYLUM I. Foliis ovatis glabris rigidis trinerviis, fioribus jingu- 



laribus. Tab. 7. f. 1. 



The Greenheart or Cogwood Tree. 



Periantium Monophyllum rotatum in quinque partes lanceolatas profunde 



feSlum. 

 Corolla Floris vicem gerunt foliola minima inaqualia, laciniis calicis ad- 

 nata j aliud nullum. 

 Stamina. Filamenta quinque eretla ex umbilico germini circumduSlo ajfur- 



gentia i et iricifurh calicis oppofita; anthera? fubrotundaf 

 Piftillum. Germen Jubrotundum minimum umbilico era [Jo car no jo circumdu- 



cJum; ftyli tres fubulati breves ; ftigmata acuta. 

 Pericarpium. Drupa fpbarica uniloculars. An, germen triloculare? 

 Semina. Nucleus bilobus pericarpio ligneo cor tic at teclus et membrand 



propria obvolutus. 



This tree is common in many parts of the mountains, and rifes by a ftrong 

 branched trunk to a very confiderable height; the inward bark is of a light blood 

 colour, and inclofes a ftrong greeniih timber within the fap : the leaves are fmooth, 

 of an oval form, and adorned with three confiderable arched nerves each j they re- 

 ferable thofe of the Camphire tree, both in fhape, iize, and texture. This tree 

 bears its fruit, which feldom exceeds a naked hafel nut in lize, fcattered up and 

 down upon the branches. 



The wood is very tough and hard, and obferved to anfwer better than any other 



fort for the coggs ufed in the rolls of a fugar-mill. It is generally efteemed one 

 of the beft timber- woods in the iiland, and ufed on all occasions where ftrength and 



durability is required. 



SPATHE i. Caudice fimplici , fronde pinnata comofa^acemo fpatiojijfimo laxo 



terminal}. 



Aceri aut paliuro affinis, arbor caudice non ramofa t &c. Slo. Cat. 138. 

 Carpinus Zeylonica filiculofa. The. Zey. 54. 



The Maiden Plumb Tree. 



Periantium Tentaphyllum coloratum ; foliolis oblongis* 



Corolla Pentapetala, petalis oblongis. 



Stamina. Filamenta quinque inferne latiora fubhirfuta & appendiculd denti- 



culiformis utrinque refer ta y fuperne tenuia £f arcuata\ antherae 



ovatce. 

 Piftillum. Germen ovatum ftaminibus dimidio brevius; ftylus nullus-, ftig- 



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mata tria Jubrotunda. 





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u 3 Pericarpium. Capfula oblonga trigona triloculcris, 

 Semina Solitaria triquetra oblonga. 



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