4 HOllTUS JAMAICENSIS. ACirYRANTiiEa 



gularsh-uctiire, and pinnated on the sides, somewiiat like tliosc of tlie garden rose. The 

 wliole plant iias an uncommon, but beautiful, appearance, and deserves to be cultivated 

 ill ail ilower gardens in tlie cooler parts of the island, where it is most likely to thrive. 



2. HISPIDA. 



Leaves ovate, obtuse, tooth-letted, hisjiid-hirsute, leaflets of the calyx lancco* 

 late, entire, hairy, stcna hair^ rugged. Sxi'. Fr. 



3. RUTILANS 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, villose, denticulate, coloured underneath ; divisions 

 of the calyx jagged, villous; corolla villose, upper hp two-parted. Hw. I'r, 



These plants are propagated from seeds. 



No English Name. ACHYRANTHES. 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandria monogyiiia Nat. or. Miscellanea. 



This genus takes its name from two Greek words, signifying chaff and a flower. 



Gen. char. Calyx a double perianthium, outer three-leaved persistent, inner- 

 five-leaved also persistent; no corolla or scaixely perceptible ; nectariuni five- 

 valved, surrounding the germen, bearded at the top, concave, and falling off; the' 

 perianthium is a roundish one-celled capsule ; the seed single and oblong. Tiie_ 

 tbllowing sj)ecies are natives of Jamaica : 



1. ASPERA. 



Amarayxthus siculus spicatus radice perenyii boccone. Sloane, v. 1, p. 

 142. Caule geniculato erecto, foliis ovatis oppositis, &c. Browne^ 

 p. 180. 

 Stem shrubby erect; calj'x reflex, pressed to the spike. 



It rises three or four feet high, bv a square jointed .stalk, opposite branches; the 

 leaves are dark green, woolly on both sides, oblong, smooth, j^ointed. Tiie flowers 

 are in sjjikes at the end of the branches, appearing first like short reddish hairs, after 

 nhich follow rough, prickly, green, reflected, capsules, containing five seeds, oblong, 

 reddish. It grows in ditches. 



C. ALTISSIMA. 



Foliis ovatis, Jlorilms spicatis,Ctppcndicibus hisetis. Browne, 180. Bli-> 

 turn album majus scandens. Sloane, v, 1, p. 142. 



Stem suffruticose scandent, panicles terminating axillary, hranched. 



This has a green stalk as thick as ones thumb, supported by shrubs and trees, on 

 which it leans, grows five or six feet high, putting out here and there branches, hav- 

 ing leaves about an inch and a half's distance, on inch-long footstalks, three inches 

 long and half s.s broad. The leaves are ovate, acute, smooth, soft, of a dark green co 

 lour, six inches long. The flowers grow in spikes, of a pale green or herbaceous co- 

 lour^ a great many together. The semuial ve;>seis or husks break horizontally, and 



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