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the bottom ol the nut : cotyledons leafy : radicle in- 
cumbent over the upper fissure of the cotyledons. 
Shrubs, rarely trees. — Name, from the Celtic rhudd, red, on 
account of the colour of the fruit. 
1. Rhus Metopium. Jamaica Sumach. 
Leaves pinnate bijugate with an odd one very gla- 
brous, leaflets petiolulated rotundo-oval very entire. — 
De Cand. 
Terebinthus maxima, pinnis paucioribus majoribus atque 
rotundioribus, Sloane, II. 90. t. 199. f. 3. — Metopium, Browne , 
177. t. 13. f. 3. — Borbonia fructu corallino, Plum. ic. 61. — 
Rhus Metopium, Linn. Amam. V. 395. 
HAB. Common on limestone hills. 
FL. January, February. 
A shrubby tree, 15-20 feet in height: branches erect, 
terete, glabrous. Leaves at the end of the branches, impari- 
pinnate; leaflets petiolulated, 2-paired with an odd one, ovali- 
rotund, obtuse (sometimes emarginate) at the apex, subacumi- 
nate and, in the lateral leaflets, unequal at the base, entire, 
nerved and veined, green and shining above, paler beneath, 
very glabrous: petiole subterete, slightly channelled above. 
Racemes axillary, longer than the leaves, solitary, subsimple. 
Calyx 5-fid, persistent. Drupe oblong, glabrous, shining, of a 
scarlet colour : nut chartaceous : funicle large, expanded, cover- 
ing one of the edges of the seed. 
This shrubby tree has long been confounded with the Moro- 
nobea coccinea, the true Hog-gum tree. 
2. Rhus arborea. Tree Sumach. 
Leaves 3-foliate, leaflets lanceolato-oblong obso- 
letely serrulated subglabrous above pubescent beneath, 
peduncles axillary and solitary 1 -flowered. 
Toxicodendron arboreum, Mill. Diet. No. 8. — Sloane, Cat' 
170 — Rhus arborea, De Cand. Prod. II. 73. 
HAB. The Falls on the Windward road. Near Hanson’s 
Salt-pond. 
FL. August? 
A tree, about 30 feet in height, with spreading branches. 
Leaves at the ends of the branches, petiolate, 3-foliate ; leaflets 
petiolulated, lanceolato-oblong, rounded and apiculated at the 
apex, obsoletely crenulato-serrulated, subglabrous above, pubes- 
cent beneath, nerved, membranaceous : petiole elongated, terete, 
pubescent. Peduncles axillary, half the length of the petiole, 
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