Visnea
(called after a Lisbon merchant named Visne, who was interested in botany). ORD. Ternstromiaceae. A monotypic genus. The species is a greenhouse, evergreen tree, with the habit and inflorescence of Eurya (which see for culture).
V. Mocanera (so named by Linnaeus on account of the fruit being supposed by some authors to have been the Mocan, which was made into a kind of syrup, and largely employed by the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands). fl. rather small, sub-sessile; sepals much imbricated; petals connate at base; stamens numerous. March. fr. baccate, indehiscent. l. smooth, alternate, elliptic or lanceolate. Canary Islands and Madeira, 1815.(R.H.1882, p. 212.)
