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CaLEA LOBATA. YELLOW-FLOWERED 
CaLea, or HALBERD-WEED. 
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r Clafs and Order. 
SyNcGENESIA Potycamia AQUALIS. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Recepi. paleaceum. Pappus pilofus. Cal. imbricatus. 
Specific Chavafter and Synonyms. 
CALEA Jobata; corymbis congeftis, foliis alternis : fuperioribus 
ovato-lanceolatis, inferioribus dentato-haftatis finuato-fer- 
ratis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p.1795. Swartz Prod. 113. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. 4. p. 516. 
oS lobata. Sp. Pl. 1207. Hort. Cliff: 405. Mart. Mill. 
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CONYZA< arborefcens lutea folio trifido. Plum. Ic. 96. 
SANTOLINA ereéta fubhirfuta, foliis ferratis, haftatis f. fim- 
plicibus et utrinque porreftis, floribus comofis [ corymbofis? ]. 
Brown Fam. 315. 
VIRGA AUREA major, f. Doria folio finuato hirfuto. Sloane 
Jam. 125. Hift. 1. p. 260. t. 152. f. 4. 
HALBERT-WEED. Lunan Hort. Fam. 
The Careza Jobata is a native of Jamaica, and requires the heat 
of the ftove to bring it to perfeétion ; and being a large plant, 
and poffeffed of few attraétions, will feldom be’ thought de- 
ferving the room that it muft neceflarily occupy there. It is, 
however, a plant of confiderable intereft, having been found to 
afford a moft valuable remedy againft the fatal fevers of St. Nevis, 
as our friend Mr. Lampert, from whofe colleétion at Boyton 
it was communicated to us in November laft, was informed by 
James Toxin, Efg. who fent him the feed from which our 
plant was raifed. : 
“ Brown, in his Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, obferves, that 
* it is an excellent bitter, and was in his time much ufed in 
America, where a fpirituous infufion of the tops was generally 
kept in moft plantations, and often adminiftered as an alive warm 
ftomachic.” Lunan, in his Hortus Jamaicenfis, alfo fpeaks of 
it as a noble vulnerary, and fays that it ftops all fort of fluxes. 
Introduced by Dr. Witt1am Hovustoun, before 17335 
and cultivated by Pattie Mizxer; but moft probably foon 
difappeared. 
