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Trees or shrubs, natives of America; leaves compound; 
leaflets pellucido-punctate ; flowers panicled, white. Drupe 
turgid with an aromatic oil. — Name, from /i-joga, myrrh, from 
the valuable gum or resin, which almost every species of this 
genus affords. 
1. Amyris sylvatica. Shrubby Torch-wood. 
Leaflets 1 -paired with an odd one subrotundo- 
ovate acuminate crenulated petiolulated, the odd 
leaflet the largest. 
Baccifera trifolia racemosa, flosculis albis tetrapetalis, fructu 
nigro monopyreno foetido, Sloane, II. 101. — Amyris fruticosus 
minor, foliis orbiculatis pinnato-ternatis, Browne, 209. — A. 
sylvatica, Jacq. Amer. 107. — A. maritiina, Swartz, Ohs. 148. 
HAB. Common in Port-Royal mountains. Thickets near 
the Sea-shore. 
FL. May — August. 
A shrub, varying from 2-15 feet in height; branches few, 
long, terete, verrucose, ash-coloured. Leaves at the extremi- 
ties of the branches, ternate : leaflets ovate or rhomboideal, 
rounded or occasionally subattenuated at the base, acuminate at 
the apex which is blunt, slightly crenated, or, where the soil is 
rich, duplicato-crenated, glabrous, pellucido-punctate, mem- 
branaceous, 2 inches or more in length : common petiole com- 
pressed : petiolules short, terete. Panicle terminal and axil- 
lary, and alternately branched ; flowers numerous, small, white. 
Calyx persistent, minute, 4-fid, with the divisions blunt. Drupe 
globose, black, size of that of a Pimento berry : nut oval. 
This is a common shrub in thickets, and varies in the size 
and form of the leaves, flowers, tic., from soil and situation. I 
have no doubt, but that the following species of Jacquin, is pro- 
perly a variety of the one we are at present considering. 
2. * Amyris maritiina. Seaside Amyris . 
Leaflets 1 -paired sessile with an odd one petiolu- 
lated, ovate crenated obtuse. 
Jacq. Amer. 107. 
HAB. Sea-shore at the Havannah, Jacquin. Jamaica, Be 
Candolle. 
FL. ? 
3. Amyris balsamifera. Mountain fragrant Torch - 
ivood. 
Leaflets 2-jugate with an odd one petiolulated 
ovate acuminate subentire very glabrous, panicle ter- 
minal sessile. 
