JACQUINIA (named in honour of Nicholas Joseph de Jacquin, 1727-1817, an eminent botanist, once Professor of Botany at Leyden). ORD. Myrsineae. A genus comprising about five or six species of very pretty stove evergreen shrubs, natives of tropical America, allied to Theophrasta. Flowers white, yellow, or purplish, terminal, racemose, or solitary; corolla campanulate. Leaves scattered, obtuse or verticillate, quite entire, with revolute edges, crowded at the tops of the branches. The species thrive in a compost of sandy peat, to which may be added a small quantity of fibry loam. Increased, during summer, by cuttings of ripened shoots, placed in sand, in a moist bottom heat, and covered with a bell glass. JACQUINIA armillaris (bracelet). fl. white, racemose or rather corymbose. June. l. cuneate-spathulate or obovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, sometimes mucronulate, nearly veinless; margins some-what revolute. West Indies, &c., 1768. Shrub or tree. This species is known by the West Indian settlers as Bracelet-wood, the shiny brown and yellow seeds being made into bracelets. JACQUINIA aurantiaca (orange-flowered). fl. orange, racemose. April to September. l. obovate-lanceolate, acuminated, ending in a pungent point. Branches sub-verticillate. h. 3ft. to 6ft. Sandwich Isles, 1796. (B. M. 1639.)