HONEY BERRY. 
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figure is given by Jussieu, in the Memoirs of the Museum 
of Natural History. Dr. Blodgett has also met with it on 
Key West, where it becomes a large tree. Of the nature 
of the wood we are not informed. The fruit of the com- 
mon species is said to be about the size of a large plum, 
and green ; containing a sweet, acid, and slightly astringent, 
gelatinous pulp, resembling the yolk of an egg. The berry 
of the present kind appears to be wholly similar, but it is 
spherical instead of ovate. The nuts of the Genip Tree 
are also eaten, after being roasted in the manner of ches- 
nuts. The flowers appear in April, when the leaves are 
shed, and are very fragrant, even at a distance, attracting 
swarms of bees and humming birds. This species, accord- 
ing to Browne, was brought to the West Indies from Suri- 
nam. 
The wood of the Melicocca trijuga, ( Schleichera trijuga 
Willd.) of the isles of France and Bourbon, is so hard and 
fine grained as to afford to the natives a favourite wood 
for bows, arrows, and the shafts of their spears, called 
sagaye's. The M. bijuga becomes a large and beautiful 
tree 30 to 40 feet high, affording an extensive and grateful 
shade. The bark of the branches in the Florida plant, are 
brownish and rough, with small whitish excrescences. The 
leaves are smooth on both surfaces, (in the St. Domingo 
specimens, a little pubescent on the mid rib beneath,) of a 
dark shining green above, and scarcely any paler beneath. 
They are pinnated usually in 2 pairs, rarely 3 or only 1 
pair, 3 to 34 inches long, by from 1 to II of an inch wide, 
with the main petiole about half an inch long; they are 
lanceolate or oblong, usually obtuse, delicately feather 
veined, with the vessels running together and reticulating 
below the margin. The flowers are small and disposed in 
axillary, but chiefly terminal panicles. The calyx is tomen- 
tose, with 5 obtuse, ovate, spreading and reflected seg- 
ments ; the petals, 5, are smaller, pale yellow, and narrowed 
