. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. able spu-al thieads; the sameeconomy has been remarked by Du Petit Thenars in the pericarp of Calypso. Accord-ing to Endhcher, the genera Eleeodendron and Ptelidium among Spindle-trees, connectthat Order with Hippocrateads. The piincipal part are South American, about one-seventh aie natives of Africa orthe Mamntian Islands, and the same munber has been recorded as East Indian. The fiuit of Tonsella (Salacia) pjTnformis, a native of Sierra Leone, is eatable. It isabout the size
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. able spu-al thieads; the sameeconomy has been remarked by Du Petit Thenars in the pericarp of Calypso. Accord-ing to Endhcher, the genera Eleeodendron and Ptelidium among Spindle-trees, connectthat Order with Hippocrateads. The piincipal part are South American, about one-seventh aie natives of Africa orthe Mamntian Islands, and the same munber has been recorded as East Indian. The fiuit of Tonsella (Salacia) pjTnformis, a native of Sierra Leone, is eatable. It isabout the size of a Bergamot Pear ; its flavour is rich and sweet. The nuts of Hippo-cratea comosa are oily and sweet; it is called, in the French West India Islands, Aman-dier du Bois. Martins reports that several species of Tontelea, called Saputd in Brazil,have a sweet mucilaguious fruit, which is eaten. I find no indication here of the emeticand nauseous quahty recorded as being characteristic of Spindle-trees. Fig. CCCXC VI.—Hippocratea Aniottiana.— Tr?^ftf. 1. a flower; 2. across section of the ovary ;3. ripe Fig. CCCXCVI. Rhamnales.] HIPPOCRATEACEiE. 585 Hippocratea, , , , , Fl. Flmn. Trigonotheca, , Aiihl. Tonsella, Schreb. Sicclium, P. Br. Anthodon, Ruizet Pav. GENERA. AnthodiscHg, , Lean , Fl. , , Thouars. Numbers. Gen. 6. Sp. 86. Johnia, , Lacepedea, //. B. K. Triceraia, Willd. —Chailletiacese.—Hippocrateace^.—Celastraceee. Aceracece. 586 CELASTRACEiE. [Perigynous Exogens. Order CCXXV. CELASTRACEiE.—Spindle-trees. Celastrinese, R. Brown in Flinders, 22. (1814); DC. Prodr. 2. 2.; Ad. Brongniart Mhnoire sur lesRhamn^es, 16.; Endl. Ckn. ccxxxvi.; Meisner Gen. p. 68.; Wight lUustr. 1. 174.; Am. in Hist. 3. 153. , imhricatecl calyx, and stamens Diagnosis.—Rhamnal Exogem, with polypetalous flowers, i (^)
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