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PLATE DCXX.
S C H I N U S DENTATA.
Toothed Schinus.
CLASS XXIL OllDER IX.
DIOECIA s. TOLYGAMIA DECANDRIA. Shafts and Chives separate on
different Plants, or both on the same. Ten Chives.
GENERIC
MAS. Calyx 5-fidus. Pétala 5. Stamina 8—10
sub nectario rotato inserta.
FEM. CalfX et pétala maris. Stigmata3. Drupa
sicca, raulti-locularis, submonosperma.
N u x subturbinatus, obtusè angulatus. Embryo
subreniformis, compressiis. Cotyledones
2, aequales, latofalcatse. Radícula
supera, cylindrica, incurva.
CHARACTER.
MALE. Cup 5-cleft. Petal« 5. Chives 8—10
affixed under a wheel-shaped nectary.
FEMALE. Cup and blossom as in the male,
Summits 3. Berry dry, with many cells
and generally one seed. Nut nearly top.
shaped with blunt angles. Embryo nearly
kidney-shaped, compressed. Seed-leaves 2,
equal, broadly falcate. Radicle above, cylindrical,
incurved.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
SCHINUS foliis simpllcibds dentatis. SCHINUS with simple toothed leaves.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A petal magnified.
3. A chive magnified.
4 . The nectary magnified,
5. A ripe berry.
a . The nut cleared from the pulp.
SPECIMENS of this curious Schinus were communicated in May by the Right Honourable the Marquis
of Blandford, from his gardens at White Knights. Its native country, as we are informed, is Owhyhee,
an island long to be remembered in English history for the loss of the illustrious Cook;
Who, born to ble^s mankind, fair Science bore
T o Ocean's bounds and isles unknown before;
And, while to guard barbarian lives his care,
AVas raurder'd by the men he sought to spare.
At what time the ScWnus dentata was brought to England, or by whom, we have not been able to
learn It thrives very well in sheltered situations here in the open ground,,and even ripens fruit m
good'seasons when trained against a wall. The berries are black, nearly of the size of small currants,
with a sweet fleshy pulp, each berry containing a single nut which is bluntly angled, and a flattened
two-leaved crooked embryo enclosed in a farinaceous perisperra c;f unequal thickness, having outwardly
the same form as the nut. ^ , c , j
Another species agreeing exactly in habit with the present, the toothed leaves excepted, b. dependens,
f t b e Amv r i s polygama of Cavanilles and Willdenow,) has before been added to the genus by Ortega ;
L d we cannot help noticing how remarkable it is that three plants, two of which differ so widely ni
habit should vet agree so closely in their fructification. Tlie insertion of the stamens, nectary, germen
' sti-mas and fmi t is exactly similar ; and the fruit of Schinus Molle figured by Gaertner (as far as
his figure arid description go) coincides exactly with the fruit of S. dentata. For the ripe fruit and
some observations on the genus we are indebted to A. B. Lambert, esq.
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