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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, red, 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, Sloane, II. 90. t. 199. f. 3. Metopium, Browne, 

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

 Rhus Metopium, Linn. Atncen. V. 395. 



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, subacurni- 

 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 MORO- 

 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 30 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, mernbranaceous : petiole elongated, terete, 

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



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