This is propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown 
in the fpring, in fmail pots filled with light earth, 
and plunged into a hot-bed ; thefe feeds lie generally 
two months in the ground before the plants make 
their appearance, during which time the pots fhould 
be duly watered, and air admitted when the weather 
is w r arm. When the plants come up and are fit to 
remove, they fhould be carefully feparated, planting 
each in a fmail pot filled with light earth, watering 
the eaijth to fettle it about their roots ; then plunge 
them into the tan-bed again, fhading the plants from 
the fun till they have taken new root; afterward 
they may be treated in the fame manner as other ten- 
der plants from the fame countries. When the plants 
have obtained ftrength, they may be preferred in win- 
ter in a dry ftove, but thefe will not make fuch pro- 
grefs as thofe in the tan-ftove. 
CECROPI A. Yaruma Oviedi. Sloan. Hift. Jam. 
The Trumpet-tree, or Snakewood. 
The Characters are, 
It hath male and female flowers in different plants. The 
male flower hath an oval acute flpatha , which hurfls and 
contains a tale compofed of many katkins , which are taper 
and bundled . together ; thefe are imbricated , and have 
many turbinated f codes , which are four-cornered. , obtufle , 
and comprejfed. The flower hath no corolla , but a fcaly 
neUarium , with two fort hair-like ftamina , crowned by 
four-cornered oblong fummits. The female flowers have a 
flpatha , with four taper imbricated germen ; they have no 
corolla , but the comprejfed imbricated germen fupport one 
floor t ftyle , crowned by a headed torn ftigma. The empale- 
ment afterward turns to a berry with one cell, containing 
one oblong comprejfed feed. 
This tree is ranged in the fecond order of Linnaeus’s 
twenty-fecond clafs, intitled Dioecia Diandria, the 
male flowers growing upon feparate plants from the 
female, and have each two ftamina. 
It grows naturally in moft of the woody parts of the 
ifland of Jamaica, where it rifes to the height of 
thirty-five or forty feet : the trunk and branches are 
hollow, and flopped at different fpaces by membra- 
naceous feptae, which have fo many light annular 
marks in the furface ; the leaves are large, divided 
• into many lobes like thofe of Papaya, but the foot- 
ftaik is placed more in the center, fo as to referable a 
target : they are downy on their under fide. The 
flowers are inclofed in a conical fpatha or fheath, the 
male growing upon feparate plants from thofe which 
have the female ; they are produced upon imbri- 
bricated katkins, compofed of feveral turbinated 
fcales, having no corolla, each having a fcaly nec- 
tarium, with two fhort hair-like ftamina, crowned 
with four-cornered oblong fummits. The female 
flowers are inclofed in a conical fpatha or fheath ; 
thefe have no corolla, but have four imbricated ger- 
men, fupporting one fhort ftyle, crowned by a headed 
torn ftigma. The empalement afterward turns to an 
oblong cylindrical berry, compofed of many fmail 
acini like the Strawberry, and much referable it in 
flavour when ripe. 
This tree is very rare atprefent in Europe ; the fruit 
being fmail are generally devoured by birds, fo are 
not much obferved by the European inhabitants, but 
the negroes are fond of it ; they aifo make ufe of the 
fmail branches of the tree to obtain fire, by rubbing 
them againft each other ; by this attrition they foon 
emit fparks of fire, fo that it is a ufeful tree in that 
country. 
I received fpecimens of this tree from the late Dr. 
Houftoun, who found it growing naturally at La V era 
Cruz, in New Spain, but without flowers ; nor had 
the DoCtor leifure to examine the characters of it, fo 
that at prelent we are not fufficiently acquainted with 
them. 
It may be propagated by feeds (when procured from 
the places where it naturally grows.) Thefe fhould 
be brought over in fancl ; for as the fruit are com- 
pofed of feveral acini like thofe of Strawberries, fo 
if they are put up moift in papers, they will be apt 
,to grow mouldy, and thereby fpoil the feeds : but 
when they are put up in light fand, it will prevent 
that inconveniency. The feeds fhould be fown in 
fmail pots filled with light earth, and plunged into , 
a moderate hot-bed of tanners bark, obferving to wa- 
ter the pots duly, and to admit frefti air whenever the 
weather is favourable. When the plants come up 
and are fit to tranfplant, they fhould be carefully taken, 
up, and each planted in a feparate fmail pot filled 
with the like light earth, and plunged into the hot-bed 
again, being careful to water them to fettle the earth 
to their roots, and alfo to fcreen them from the fun 
till they have taken new root : after which they fhould 
be conftantiy kept plunged into the bark-bed in the 
ftove, and treated in the fame manner as other plants 
from the fame country. 
C E D R U S. The Cedar-tree of Barbadoes, and the 
Mahogany, &c. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a tubulous bell-JJoaped empalement of one leaf \ in- 
dented in five parts. The flower is of one leaf, divided at 
the top into five parts ; it hath five fhort ftamina, which 
adhere at bottom to the germen , • and are terminated by 
roundifh fummits ; in the center is ftuated the roundif 
germen , fupporting a thick ftigma ; the germen afterward 
becomes an oval pod, having five cells, opening from the 
bottom upward with five valves, having a double co- 
ver ; the cuter being thick and woody, the inner very 
thin, which immediately fir rounds the feeds. In the cen- 
ter is fixed a five-cornered column the length of the pod, 
whofe angles are oppofte to the ffures of the pod, to 
which the feeds adhere, placed over each other like the 
fcales of 'fifth ; thefe are thick at their bafe, but upward 
are flat and thin, like the wings adhering to the feeds of 
Firs and Pines. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft fedlion 
of Linnaeus’s filth clafs, intitled Pentandria Mono- 
gynia, the flower having five ftamina and one 
germen. 
As the Cedar of Libanus is by Tournefort very pro- 
perly referred to the genus of Larix, and all the berry- 
bearing Cedars are joined to the Junipers, I have 
given the title of Cedrus to this genus, as they were 
mentioned by imperfeCt titles by moft of the authors 
who have treated of them ; and as the firft fort has 
been generally known by the appellation of Cedar in 
the countries where it naturally grows, the applying 
the fame name to thofe plants which agree in their 
efientiai characters with it, will join them properly 
together. 
The Species are, 
1. Cedrus ( Odorata) foliis pinnatis, foliolis multijugatis 
obtufts, fructu ovali glabro. Cedar-tree with winged 
leaves , compofed of many pair of fmail leaves or lobes , 
which are obtufe, and an oval fmooih fruit. Cedrus 
Barbadenfium, alatis fraxini foliis non crenatis, fruCtu 
fingulari, quinis involucris craflis validis cochleato 
cavis, totidem femina membranis adaudta & columnar 
canaliculatse pentagons praegrandi adnata, occluden- 
tibus ornato. Pluk. Phyt. tab. 157. f. 1. The Barba- 
does Cedar-tree. 
2. Cedrus ( Mahogani ) foliis pinnatis, foliolis oppofitis, 
glabris, floribus racemofis fparfis. Cedar with winged 
leaves , whofe lobes are fmooth and fand oppofte, and flow- 
ers growing in loofe bunches. Arbor foliis pinnatis, nulio 
impari alam clauclente,. nervo ad latus unum excur- 
rente fruttu anguiofo magno, femine aiato inftar Pi- 
nus. Catefb. Hift. Carol. Vol. II. p. 181. The Maho- 
gany-tree. 
3. Cedrus ( Alternifolius ) foliis alternis fimplicibus, corda- 
to-ovatis acutis, frudtu pentagono mucronato. Cedar 
with fingle leaves placed alternately, which are oval, heart- 
ffaped, and acute, having a five-cornered pointed fruit. 
Arbor excelfa Coryli folio ampliore. Houft. MSS. 
The firft fort is commonly known under the title of 
Cedar in the Britifii iflands of America, where this 
tree grows naturally, and is one of the largeft trees 
of that country. The trunks of thefe trees are fo 
large, that the inhabitants hollow them, and form 
them into the fhape of boats, and periaguas, for 
which purpofe they are extremely well adapted ; the 
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