PLATE DCXX. 

 S CHIN US DEN TAT A. 



Toothed Scltinus. 



CLASS XXIL ORDER IX. 



DIOECIJ s. POLYGJMIA DECANDRIA. Shafts and Chives separate on 

 different Plants, or both on the same. Ten Chives. 



GENERIC 



]Mas. Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 5. Stamina 8— 10 

 sub nectnrio rotato inserta. 



Fem, Calyx et petala maris. Stigmata 3, Dru- 

 pa sicca, multi-locularis, submonosperma. 

 Nux subtiirbinatus, obtuse angulatus. Em- 

 bryo subreniformis, compressus. Cotyle- 

 dones 2, sequales, latofalcatae. Radicula 

 supera, cylindrica, iiicurva. 



CHARACTER. 



Male. Cup 5-cleft. Petak 5. Chives 8 — 10 

 affixed under a wheel-shaped nectary. 



Female, Cup and blossom as in the male. 

 Summits 3. Berry dry, with many cells 

 and generally one seed. Nut nearly top- 

 shaped with blunt angles. Embryo nearly 

 kidney-shaped, compressed. Seed-leaves 2, 

 equal, broadly falcate. Eadicle above, cy- 

 lindrical, incurved. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 

 ScHiNUs foliis simpliciLas dentatis. || Schinus with simple toothed leaves. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The empalement. 



2. A petal magnified. 



3. A chive magnified. 



4. The nectary magnified. 

 .5. A ripe berry. 



0'. The nut cleared from the pulp. 



Specimens of (his curious Schinus were communicated in May by the Right Honourable the Mai'quis 

 of Blandford, from his gardens at White Knights. Its native country, as we are informed, is Owhyhee, 

 an island long to be remembered in English history for the loss of the illustrious Cook ; 



Who, born to bless mankind, fair Science bore 

 To Ocean's bounds and isles unknown before ; 

 And, while to guard barbarian lives his care, 

 Was murder'd by the men he sought to spare. 



At what time the Schinus dentata was brought to England, or by whom, we have not been able to 

 learn. It thrives very well in sheltered situaiions here in the open ground, and even ripens fruit in 

 good seasons when trained against a wall. The berries are black, nearly of the size of small currants, 

 with a sweet fleshy pulp, each berry containing a single nut which is bluntly angled, and a flattened 

 two-leaved crooked embryo enclosed in a farinaceous perisperm (f unequal thickness, having outwardly 

 the same form as the nut. 



Another species agreeing exactly in habit with the present, the toothed leaves excepted, S. dependens, 

 (the Amyris polygama of Cavanilles and Willdenow,) has before been added to the genus by Ortega : 

 and we cannot help noticing how remarkalle it is that three plants, two of which differ so widely in 

 habit, should yet agree so closely in their fructification. The insertion of the stamens, nectary, ger- 

 men, sticrmas and fruit is exactly similar ; and the fruit of Schinus Molle figured by Gasrtner (as far as 

 his figure and description go) coincides exactly with the fruit of S. dentata. For the ripe fruit and 

 some observations on the genus we are indebted to A. B, Lambert, esq. 



