Morisonia
(named after Robert Morison, 1628-1683, born at Aberdeen, at one time Director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Blois, and afterwards Professor of Botany at Oxford). ORD. Capparideae. A small genus (four species) of stove unarmed trees, natives of the West Indies and tropical South America. Flowers large or small; corymbs axillary and terminal, many-flowered. Berry globose. Leaves petiolate, simple, coriaceous, shining, glabrous, tomentose, or scaly. M. americana--probably the only species in cultivation--thrives in a compost of loam, peat, and sand. Propagated, in spring, by cuttings of the ripened shoots, inserted in sandy soil, under a glass, in bottom heat. M. americana (American). fl. white, somewhat tufted; corymbs shortly-stalked, few-flowered. Berry 1 1/2in. to 2in. in diameter. l. oblong, 4in. to 6in. long, glabrous, stalked, alternate, simple, bluntish; petiole thickish, often 1in. long. Branches and inflorescence leprous. h. 15ft. West Indies, 1824.