Exotic shrubs, mostly natives of the West Indies, with spiked, or umbellate flowers, and alternate leaves. Very seldom seen in Britain.
ORDER XLI.—HIPPOCRATACEÆ.
Exotic arborescent, or climbing shrubs, generally with inconspicuous flowers. Natives of the East and West Indies.
ORDER XLII.—ERYTHROXYLEÆ.—THE RED WOOD TRIBE.
Exotic shrubs, and low trees, remarkable from the redness of their wood, but with small greenish flowers. The leaves of Erythroxylon Coca possess an intoxicating quality, and are chewed by the Peruvians, in the same manner as the Turks take opium.
ORDER XLIII.—MALPIGHIACEÆ.—THE BARBADOES CHERRY TRIBE.