Clusia
(named in honour of Charles de la Cluse, or Clusius, of Artois, an acute botanist, author of "Historia Plantarum," and many other works; born in 1526, and died in 1609). Balsam-tree. ORD. Guttiferae. Stove evergreen trees and shrubs, often epiphytal with large, coriaceous, opposite leaves, and usually tetragonal stems, abounding in viscid juice. There are about sixty species, nearly all natives of tropical parts of the Western hemisphere. They grow well in light sandy soil. The pots will require to be thoroughly drained. Cuttings of halfripe shoots will strike in sand, if placed under a bell glass, and given plenty of bottom heat.
C. alba (white). fl. white. h. 30ft. West Indies, 1752. C. flava (yellow). fl. yellow. h. 30ft. Jamaica, &c., 1759. C. rosea (rose-coloured). fl. beautiful rose-coloured, large; calyx the same colour, five to six-leaved; tops of dense nectaries awlshaped. July. l. obovate, obtuse, veinless, sometimes emarginate, on short, striated petioles. h. 7ft. to 20ft. Carolina, 1692 (on rocks and trees).