Order J. 
POLYGAMIA MONGECIA. 
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14301 Leaves broad ovate acuminate serrate smooth on each side 
]4o()2 Leaves ovate oblong acuminate serrulate unequally cordate at base rough above hairy beneath 
14.%3 Lvs. ovate obi. acum. equally cordate at base entire obsoletely serrated at end smooth, Branches prickly 
14304 Leaves ovate acummate bluntly serrated smooth 
H305 Leaves cordate-ovate with glandular serratures roughish. Racemes terminal downy 
1430fi Stem downy, Leaves oblong sessile toothed downy beneath 
14307 Leaves lanceolate ovate woolly above downy beneath entire 
14308 Shrubby erect spiny. Leaves ovate entire acute glabrous 
14309 The only species 
14310 Leaves pinnated with an odd one. Leaflets toothed at base. Teeth glandular 
14311 Leaves abruptly pinnated. Leaflets serrated 
14312 Leaves obovate blunt veinless. Cor. hexapetalous twice as large as calyx 
14313 Leaves obovate blunt veinless. Cor 5-7 petalous half as large again as calyx 
14314 Leaves obovate blunt yeinless. Cor. 4-petalous twice as large as calyx 
15315 Leaves obovate blunt veiny, Flowers tetrapetalous 
1431fi lieaves in fours 
14317 Fronds palmate plaited. Plaits and margins prickly 
14318 Fronds simple 2-parted, Lobes acute plaited. Plaits roughish 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
Rondelet. See Kondeletia. At the age of thirt)^-nine he broke his right arm, during one of his botanical 
rambles ; and a short time afterwards his right thigh. When fifty-five, he dislocated his left ancle while at 
Vienna ; and eight years after his right hip. Having been 'unskilfully treated, he was ever after obliged to 
v/alk with crutches. The consequent deprivation of his natural exercise brought on other diseases, among 
not the least distressing of whicli were calculus and hernia. After having been the director of the Imperial 
Gardens of Vienna for fourteen years, he finally returned to his native country, Flanders. He was named 
professor of botany at Leyden, where he gave botanical lectures for sixteen years, when he died overwhelmed 
by the multitude of his bodily infirmities, but retaining his faculties unimpaired to the last. 
The species are trees abounding in a tenacious glutinous juice, of a balsamic flavor, whence the English 
name. C. rosea has handsome flowers, in which the stamina and pistillumare covered with a gelatinous gluten. 
The fruit is green and of the size of a middling apple, with eight lines running, like meridians on a globe, from 
the stalk to the crown of it- When it ripens, it opens at these lines, and divides into eight parts, disclosing 
many mucilaginous scarlet seeds, resembling those of the pomegranate. The whole tree is exceedingly 
beautiful, and the structure of the fruit is a most exquisite piece of mechanism. It grows on rocks, and fie- 
quently on the trunk and limbs of trees, occasioned by birds scattering or voiding the seeds, which being 
glutinous, like those of the misletoe, take root in the same manner; but the roots not finding sufiScient nutri- 
ment, spread on the surface of the tree till they find a decayed hole, or other lodgment, wherein is some small 
portion of soil; the fertility of this being exhausted, a root is discharged out of the hole till it reaches the 
ground, where it fixes itself, and the stem becomes a large tree. Roots have been known to do this at forty 
feet from the surface. The resin is used to cure sores in horses, and instead of tallow for boats. 
C. alba is an elegant tree, and epiphytical on other vast trees, like the foregoing ; the trunk is frequently a 
foot in diameter, and supports a spreading head. The whole abounds in a balsamic juice, of a green color, 
but becoming of a brownish color on being exposed to the air. The flowers are white, and of no great beauty ; 
the fruit scarlet, with a scarlet pulp ; the birds are very fond of them, hang over them on the wing, and pluck 
out the seeds with the pulp adhering. 
C. flava bears in all respects a considerable resemblance to the former. A very good idea of the progress of 
culture since Miller's time, may be formed by comparing his directions for propagating this plant, and those of 
Sweet. Mr. Miller says, the best way is to have them brought over in tubs from the West Indies : accord- 
ing to Sweet, the pots should be well drained, the soil for rooted plants should be a light sandy loam, and 
" cuttings root very freely in sand under a hand-glass." 
2152. Ophioxylon. From ocbn, serpent, and IpXov, wood. In Ceylon they employ the plant in cases of the 
bite of serpents. It grows freely in a mixture of loam and peat, and may be increased by cuttings in sand 
under a hand-glass. 
2153. Rhapis. So named by Loureiro, from a needle, on account of the acute awns of the corolla, 
•which stick into the clothes. Culture as in the other palms : that is, abundance of heat and room, both for 
the roots and top. 
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