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What tree, or rather fhrub, is that Pru* 
in the hedge, bearing thofe white blof- nus ' 
foms ? Let us examine the flower. 
Thejtamna, you perceive, are numerous, 
20 or more: therefore it is either of the 
Clafs Icofandrla or Potyandria. But I have 
iio doubt to which it belongs, when I fee 
that the Jlamina are not fixed to the recep- 
taculum^ but to the infide of the calyx; that 
circumftance being peculiarly characleriftic 
of the Clafs Icofandfia. Befides, the calyx 
is of one leaf, and the petals are fixed to 
the fide of it 3 circumftances which pofi- 
tively diftmguifli this ctafs. 
In the centre of thefe Jlamina you find one 
fiftillum: therefore it is of the Order Mono- 
gynia; of which this ifland produces but one 
genus, viz. Prunus. Of this genus I have, 
in the Synopjis, defcribed 5 fpecies, only three 
of which grow in this part of the kingdom. 
In the infititla the pedunculi grow in 
pairs, the leaves are oval and a little woolly. 
In the ceracius the flowers grow in a kind 
of fhort umbell, and the leaves are ovato- 
lanceolate. But in \hefpinofa the leaves are 
lance-fhaped, fmooth, ferrated, the branches 
fpinous, and the flowers grow from the ala? 
of the leaves on fm$\e ftdunculi , all which 
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