1606 DIOECIA. DIANDRIA. i74*-ti75o- 



AUca/trum. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, perennial : aments globular, pc- 



dicelled, folitary, axillary ; fruit barky. 



Jamaica. Swart z. prodr. 12. Ait*ke<w. 2. p. 387. 



jfrurium, Leaves lance- ovate, pointed : aments ovate, pediceHed, 

 axillary: in pairs : fruit foft. Milk-wood. 



Jamaica, Sivartz prodr* 12. Brvwn. 369. n. 8. 



ORDER II. DIANDRIA. 



1748. VALLISNERIA. Male. Spatbe 2 - parted ; 

 fpadix covered with florets : corol 3-parted. 



Fern. Spathe cloven, i-flowered: calyx 3-parted, fu- 

 perior : Jligma 3-paftec} : capful j-celledj manyr 

 feeded. 



Jpiralis. Flowers with 2 ftamina: 



fmmark, Mich. gen. faff, lO.f. i f f f 



oetattdra. Flowers with 8 ftamina. 



Coromandel. Roxb, Coromena. tab, 165, 



1749. CECROPIA. Male. Spathe caducous ; 

 ament imbricate, with turbinate comprefled quar 

 drangular fcales. 



Fern. As in the male. Germs imbricate : ftyh 1 ? 

 fiigma lacerated; berry 1- feeded* 



feltat*, Cecropia, 



South America. Sloan. Jam. 1./. 88./. 2. /. 89. 

 Tree with a hollow trunk and branches : leaves at the ends of 

 the branches, peltate, lobed, white underneath : fruit oblong cy- 

 lindrical compound berries, 



1750. SALIX. Calyx a fcale of the ament; corol o, 

 Male. Stamina 1-5, with a nectariferous gland at the 



bafe. 

 Fern. Stigmata 2 : capjule fuperior, 1 -celled, 2-valved; 

 Jeeds invefted with down f * Willow^ Ofter 



A. Leaves ferrate, glabrous or nearly fo,. 



termaphro- Flowers diandrous, hermaphrodite. 

 ditita. Sweden. Bark pale ruffet-colour. 



tritmir*. Triandrous : leaves linear-oblong: germs pedicelle<J. 

 C>£er beds, E»$. Bot. t. 1435. Curt. Ln 9 d. 6. /, 72, 



