394 
DODECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Class XI. 
1074. 
1076. 
6587 
BAS'SIA. W. Bassia. Sapote^. 
longifolia W. long-leaved ^ □ or 40 
latifolia W. broad-leaved ^ □ or 40 ... Y 
BLA'KEA. W. Blakea. Melasiomece. 
trinervia W. three-ribbed i □ or 14 jn.jl W 
BEJA'RIA. Ph. Bejaria. Rhodoraceis. 
raceraosa Ph. sweet-scented ^Ht \ | or 4 jn.jl Pu 
Madagascar- Nutmeg 
Sp. 2—4. 
, E. Indies 1811. 
E. Indies 1799. 
Sp. 1—4. 
Jamaica 1789. 
1077. AGATHOPHYL'LUM. W. 
1078. 
1079. 
1080. 
6591 
1081. 
6592 
6593 
1082. 
6594 
6595 
1083. 
6596 
1084. 
6597 
arotnaticum W. aromatic i □ or 30 
RHIZO'PHORA. W. Mangrove. 
Man'gle W. common i Q cu 10 
GARCI'NIA. W. Mangosteen. 
Mangostana W. common dl 20 
GRANGE'RIA. La7n. Grangeria. 
borbonica Lam. Bourbon f □ or 40 
Snowdrop-Tree. 
four-winged ^ or 6 
two-winged or 6 
... W 
Rhixophorecc. 
GuttifercB. 
... Pu 
HALE'SIA. W. 
tetraptera W. 
diptera W. 
DECUMA'RIA. 
barbara Ph. 
sarmentosa Ph. 
EU'RYA. Thunb. 
chinensis Abel. 
ARISTOTE'LIA. 
Macqui W. 
CANEL'LA. W. 
alba W. 
TV. DecUxMaria. 
smaller _§ 
larger _^ 
Eurya. 
Chinese 
W. Aristotelia. 
shining-leaved at 
or 30 jl.au 
Ebenacetz. 
ap.my W 
ap.my W 
MyrtacciB. 
jl.au W 
Sp. 1—3. 
Florida 1810. 
. Sp. 1. 
Madagasc.1823. 
Sp. 1—9. 
E. Indies 1820. 
Sp. 1—8. 
Java 1789. 
Sp. 1. 
Bourbon 1823. 
Sp. 2—4. 
Carolina 1756. 
N. Amer. 1758. 
Sp. 2. 
Carolina 1785. 
Carolina 1758. 
l_lpr 2 
Ternstromeacece. Si 
f.d W China 
Rhamnece? Sp. 1. 
4 ap.my W.g Chili 
1—4. 
1823. 
1733. 
Canella. 
Laurel-leaved □ or 
Guttiferce. 
40 ... W 
Sp. 1, 
W, Indies 1735. 
C p.l Lam. ill. t. 398 
C p.l Rox. cor. 1. 1. 19 
L s.p Bot. mag. 451 
C l.p Vent. eels. t. 52 
C p.l Sonn. it. 1 127 
C p.l Jacq. am. t. 89 
C r.m Bot. cab. 845 
C p.l Lam. ill. t. 427 
C p.l Bot. mag. 910 
C p.l Cav. dis. 6. 1. 187 
L p.l 
L p.l Act. par. 1. 1. 13 
C p.l Abel.China,c.fig 
C l.p Dend. brit. 44 
L r.l Linn.trans.l. t.8 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
lished by Morrison at Oxford, 1764, quarto, and other works. B. frutescens is very ornamental in its foliage. 
The Indian kings, Hernandez tells us, planted it in their gardens, which must have been for its beauty, as it is 
neither culinary nor medicinal, though the juice is acrid, and used in the West Indies to take off warts. 
1074. Bassia. So named by Koerig, in honor of Ferdinando Bassi, curator of the botanic garden at 
Bologna. Tall trees, natives of the hottest parts of the East Indies, with tufted alternate leaves growing onlv 
at the end of the shoots. Ripened cuttings root freely in sand. 
1075. Blakea. So named by Dr. Patrick Browne, after Mr. Martin Blake of Antigua, a great promoter of 
useful knowledge, and a patron of the doctor's Natural History of Jamaica. This is one of the most beautiful 
plants of the West Indies. It supports itself for a time by the help of some neighboring shrub or tree, but it 
grows gradually more robust, and at length acquires a pretty moderate stem, which divides into a thousand 
weakly declining branches, well supplied with beautiful rosy blossoms on all sides. It cannot display itself to 
so great advantage in our stoves ; but it flowers freely, and thrives well in loam and peat, well supplied with 
water. Ripe cuttings root in sand in moist heat and covered. 
1076. Bejaria. So named by Mutis, in honor of Bejar, a Spanish botanist. The original species are natives 
of New Grenada. That in gardens, which is a native of the southern states of North America, is a beautiful 
shrub from three to four feet high, with pink flowers of an agreeable scent. It is found upon the banks of 
swamps and ponds, and requires the protection of a frame or greenhouse. 
1077. Agathophyllum. From a.yot.^o?, good, and q,bxXoM, a leaf The leaf has a pleasant smell like cloves. 
In Madagascar, where it is called Ravendsara, it forms a large tree with a rufous aromatic bark, and a heavy 
insipid wood. The leaves are alternate and coriaceous. The dried fruit is very aromatic. 
1078. Rhixophora. From piZ^a, a root, and (pt^u, to bear, in allusion to the numerous roots which are emitted 
by the seeds, which vegetate among the branches of the tree while yet adhering to their footstalk. This is the 
common Mangrove, which covers immense tracts of coast within the tropics, rooting and vegetating even as 
far as low water mark. 
1079. Garcinia. So named in honor of Laurent Garcin, M. D., F. R. S., who travelled into the East Indies. 
Mangostans is the Malayan name. This tree bears a fruit, which in the East Indies ranks with that of the 
pine-apple. It rises with a taper stem, sending out many branches, not unlike a fir-tree, with oval leaves, 
seven or eight inches long. The flower is like that of a single rose ; the fruit round, the size of a middhng 
orange; the shell is like that of the pomegranate, the inside of a rose color, divided by thin partitions, as in 
oranges, in wliich the seeds are lodged, surrounded by a soft juicy pulp, of a delicious flavor, partaking of the 
strawberry and the grape, and is esteemed one of the richest fruits in the world. It is a native of the Molucca 
islands, whence it has been transplanted to Java and Malacca. The head of the tree is in the form of a 
parabola, so fine and regular, and the leaves so beautiful, that it is looked upon in Batavia as the tree most 
proper for adorning a garden, and affording an agreeable shade. It was introduced to England in 1789. 
According to Dr. Garcin, {Phil. Trans.) " it is esteemed the most delicious of the East Indian fruits, and a 
