352 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class X. 
987. TRICHFLIA. W. 
5860 glabra W. 
5861 odorata B. JR. 
988. ME'LIA. W. 
5862 Azedarach W. 
5863 sempervirens TV. 
5864 Azadirachta W. 
989. QUIVI'SIA. Cav. 
5865 heterophylla Cav. 
990. SWIETE'NIA. W. 
5866 Mahagoni W. 
5867 febrlfuga W. 
991. EKEBER'GIA. TV. 
5868 capensis W. 
992. HEY'NEA. Rox. 
5869 tr'ijuga 7?o;r6. 
993. GUAFACUM. W. 
5870 officinale 
Trichjlia. 
smooth 
sweet-scented 
Bead-tree. 
common 
evergreen 
Ash-leaved 
QurvisiA. 
various-leaved 
Mahogany-tree, 
common 
Febrifuge 
Ekebergia. 
Cape 
Heynea. 
Walnut-like 
Sp. 2—18. 
W. Indies 1794, 
W. Indies 1801. 
Sp. 3—7. 
Syria 
Jamaica 
E. Indies 
1656. 
1656. 
1759. 
C l.p 
C l.p 
S s.l 
C s.l 
C s.l 
J.amer.t.l75.f.38 
Hot. rep. 637 
Bot. mag. 1066 
Bot. reg. 643 
Cav. dis. 7. t. 208 
t l_Jor 
Meliace(B. 
20 jl.au W 
Sp. 1—4. 
Is. France 1822. 
Sp. 2—3. 
W. Indies 1734. 
E.Indies 1796. 
Sp. 1. 
C. G. H. 
C p.l Cav. diss. t. 21.3 
1789. 
MeliacetB. Sp. 1. 
J □ or 20 s W Nepal 
C p.l 
C p.l 
C p.l 
C l.p 
Lignum-vit^-tree. 
officinal *t □ m 
Rutacece. 
40 jl.s B 
Sp. 1—4. 
W. Indies 1694. 
994. ZYGOPHYL'LUM. W. Bean-caper 
5871 cordifolium W. heart-leaved *( 
5872 Fabago W. 
5873 foe'tidum W. 
insuave B. M. 
5874 maculatum W. 
5875 album W. 
common 
fcEtid 
Cav. dis. 7. t. 209 
Rox. cor. 1 t. 17 
Lam. ill. t. 358 
Bot. mag. 1738 
Lam. ill. t. 342 
Lam.ill. t.345.f.l 
mag. 372 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
987. Trichilia. From T^i%«4, ternary, nearly all the parts of the plant, the leaves, the stigmas, the cells of 
capsule, the seeds, being produced by threes. T. glabra is a tall branching tree, with an unpleasant foetid 
smell. The species are rarely seen in collections, and seldom, when cultivated, flower. 
988. Melia. MsX/a was the Greek name of the manna ash, from honey. This tree has been thought 
to resemble the ash in its foliage. 
M. azedarach [azadaracht, Arab.) grows to a large tree in the south of Spain and Italy, producing long loose 
bunches of blue flowers, succeeded by pale yeUow berries, about the size of a cherry. These berries consist of 
a pulp, which is poisonous in a high degree, and mixed with grease, will kill dogs, enclosing a nut which is 
bored and strung as beads by the Catholics. 
M. sempervirens is considered by some as only a variety of the Azedarach. 
989. Quivisia. The tree is called Bozs de Quivi in the Isle of France. 
990. Swietenia. So named by Jacquin, in honor of the illustrious Gerard L. B. Von Swieten, archiater to 
Maria Teresa, Empress of Germany, who at his persuasion founded the botanic garden at Vienna. , 
S. mahagoni. The mahogany tree is a lofty branching tree, with a wide handsome head, the flower of 
Meiia, and the fruit of Cedrela, about the size of a turkey's egg. It grows in the warmest parts of America, as 
in Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, &c. The trees on the Bahama islands are not so large, but are more curiously 
veined, and are known in Europe as Madeira wood. They generally grow on the solid rock, where there seems 
to be no earth for their nourishment. Mahogany, like other timber, varies in durability, firmness of grain, 
and other circumstances, with the soil on which it is grown. The best is furnished from the rocky soils of 
St, Domingo and the Bahama islands. , 
S. febrifuga is a lofty tree, in general apearance like the Mahogany. The wood is of a dull red color, 
remarkably hard and heavy ; it is reckoned by the natives the most durable wood they know, and on that 
account is used for all the wood-work in their temples ; it is also very serviceable for various other purposes. 
The bark is internally of a light red color : a decoction of it dyes brown of various shades, according as the 
cloth has been prepared. Its taste is a bitter and astringent united, and very strong, particularly the bitter ; at 
the same time not any way nauseous or otherwise disagreeable. In India it is used for the cure of intermit- 
tents with considerable advantage, and has also been found efficacious in most of the diseases in which the 
cinchona bark proves serviceable. {Thompson's London Dispensatory, 533.) 
991. Ekebergia. Charles Gustavus Ekeberg was a Danish naturalist, who travelled in Asia from 1770 to 
1771. Cuttings to succeed must have their leaves entire, and be planted in sand and covered. 
992. Heynea. Named after Dr. Benjamin Heyne, a learned German botanist and physician, who travelled 
many years in India, where he formed a large collection of dried plants. 
993. Guaiacum. From guaiac, the name given to the tree by the natives of Guiana. Gijuac, Fr., 
Gujakgummi, Ger., Gujaco, Ital. This tree rises forty feet high, and is four or five feet in circumference, with 
many divided knotted branches, greyish bark, and abruptly pinnate leaves. It has blue flowers, which are 
succeeded by compressed berries of a roundish form. The tree takes many years to arrive at its full growth. 
The roots run far into the ground perpendicularly, contrary to the usual growth of timber trees in the West 
Indies, which generally shoot the largest prongs of their roots in a horizontal direction, and are commonly 
observed to run very near the surface. The bark is thick and smooth, the wood of a dark olive color, and 
cross grained, the strata running obliquely into one another, in form of an X. It is a valuable timber where 
