Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica. . eeurrens. juniperina. pyenantha. salicina. lanceolata. flavum,Kennedya ternifolia,Morinda acerifolia. speciosissima. No. 46. Jul*, 1893. BULLETIN OF THE BOTA
Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica. . eeurrens. juniperina. pyenantha. salicina. lanceolata. flavum,Kennedya ternifolia,Morinda acerifolia. speciosissima. No. 46. Jul*, 1893. BULLETIN OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, JAMAICA. CONTENTS: Dragons Blood Tree of the West in the Cultivation of Vegetables.— Seed. Profitable Uses of the Mango Crop. Coco-Nut Butter. Timber Trees. Sugar Cane Disease. Cultivation Abroad. Perns: Synoptical List.—XX. PRIG E—Twopence. [A Copy will be supplied free to any Resident in Jamaica, who will send Name and Address to theDirector of Public Gardens and Plantations, Gordon Town ]. JAMAICA: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 79 DUKE STREET, KINGSTON. 1893. 2 DRAGONS BLOOD TREE OF THE WEST INDIES. There are several plants known in different parts of the world as Dragons Blood, but the one towhich attention is called in this note is a native of Jamaica, a tree about 30 feet high (PterocarpusDraco, Linn.) The common name is derived from the fact that when incisions are made in the bark drops of redsap ooze out which flow slowly down the bark and gradually harden. Jacquin in his Selectarum stirpium americanarum Historia, published in A. D. 1763, statesthat formerly this red resin was imported from Cartagena to Spain as Sangre de Dragon. He alsosays that the bark, wood, and leaves are full of an astringent sap, and that the inhabitants use thebark of the trunk and root for cleaning the teeth. He mentions the Island of Tierra Bomba as itsnative place, but Grisebach states that it grows in Jamaica, Guadaloupe, Trinidad and in C
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