(Contain small black, Siiiiiing, Qocn^iCs^ai, lainoy-shaped, sead*. 

 banks of the Rio-Cobre, and on t!;e read to Passage-Fort, very pieniiiuliy. ^lout,'. 



iJi-ov.ne calls this bastard lio-op-rt'itiie. These [jiaats are raised irora tiio seeds, aa.l 

 grow commoniy among-,, low bushes. 



No English Name. ACIDOTON. 



Cl. 21, OR. 7. Monoccia pGJjjandria. 



Gent. CHAR. Male calyx five-leaved, leaves ovate-lanceolate, refiex ; no corolla;' 

 stamina numerous, placed on a globular receptacle : Female calyx six-ieaved ; 

 leaflets linear, lanceolate, spreading ; no corolla ; style short, germen three-cleft ; 

 capsule three-grained, hirsute, three-celled; seeds solitary, ovate. There is only 

 one species, described as follows by Sloane : - 



Urlicaurcns arborca, foliis oblong'ii, angustis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 124, 

 t. 83, f 1. 

 This shrub rises eight or nine feet high by a round straight woody trunk, of the big- 

 Bess of ones finger, covered with a smooth brownish bark. The leaves come out to- 

 wards the top alternately, tliey arc narrow, lanceolate, three or four incnes long, and 

 a cpiarter of an inch broad, with often a tooth near the top ; of a dark green colour, 

 several ribs on the under side, and on the surface and edges many long smallj prickles, 

 wliidi are said to be very burning. The petioles are short and ribbed. 



See Adelia. 



ACISANTHERA.'- RHEXIA ACISANTHERA. 



Cl^S, or. 1. Octandria monpgynia. 'Nat. or. CalT/canthema. 



The generic name is derived from a Greek word, signifying to break or burst. 

 Gen. char. Calyx one-leafed, four-cleft, permanent ; corolla four petals, 

 roundish and inserted into the calyx, spreading ; stamina filiform, anthers declin- 



in Jamaica, viz. 



1. ACISAirniERA. 



Erecia ramosa, raviidis qiiadratis, Jolii.'! trinerviis ovato crejjaiis, oppO'- 

 sitis ;Jiorihus singularibusad alas alternas. Browne, 217, t. 22, f 1. 



Flowers alternate, axillary, penduncled, five-cleft. 



This plant grov.s in the pastures eastward of Luidas, and seldom rises above fourteen 

 or sixteen inches in height. The stem is pretty firm and square, and emits a good 

 many square branches towards the top ; the leaves are small, three nerved, ovate, ere- 

 Bate, and opposite. The flowers spring singly from tlie alternate axils or bosoms of 

 the leaves. Tl.e calyx is deeply five-cleft at the mouth. Petals five, obovate; inserted 



into 



