JiKCHOVY HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 19 



1. 1.ATIFOLIA. 



Aparines folio anov}alaxas:cido scminaU ro'umlo midia semir.a viuiu- 

 tissinm contininie. Sloanc, v. 1, p- !-!, t. 7, f. 4. Fcliis sessildms 

 lanceohitis cntritis quasi aniple.iantitus, cppositis seu -jsrticiiiatis ; 

 Jloribus icvnatis ad alas. Brov.nc, p. 118. 



Leaves half-stem-clasping, stalk square, branches erect. 



The root is amuial; stem obtn.se-angleu, tiie alternsto sides convex. Flower rerti- 

 ciilate, three on each side, sessile. Alternate teeth of tlie calyx convergent; tliestvle. 

 shorter than the germ ; the petals four white ones or none. It gro\vs in moist pkices. 

 Sioane says the branches are wood}- with smooth bark, about a foot and a nali long, cor- 

 nered. The leaves placed at the joints, two always ojiposite, abtnit an inch and a half- 

 long, one-eighth of an inch broad at the base, decreasing to a point, tiiey are smooth, 

 equal on the edges, and carinated ; e.v alis Jalicruvh comes a roundish sir.aii body, a 

 httle prickly or hairy at the top, which augments till it is as oig as a pepper corn, as 

 it were crowned on top, containing a capsule full of small seed, sticking to a body in. 

 tlie centre. 



This plant is Browne's Ifnartlia, which, he saj's is pretty common about the Ferry,, 

 and that it grows generally by a simple stalk when young, but t!iro\vs out a few bran- 

 ches the second year, and seldom pises above twenty-four or thirty inches in height; 

 the stem is commonly quadrangular, and fnrnishetl with long lanceolated leaves, with- 

 out footstalks, whose lobes shoot obtusely backwards on cither side, by \il)ich tlie}' seem 

 to encompass the main stalk ; they are disposed in an opposite or ternate order, and 

 embrace the flowers at their insertions, but there arc seldom more than three together, 

 and always joined bv short footstallis to a common pedestal, fixed close to the stalk in. 

 tiie bosoni of every leaf. 



2. -SAKGUINOLENTA. . 



Leaves half-stern-clasping, cordate at the base, flowers sub-peduncled, eight* 

 stamened, petal bearing. Sn:. Pro. 33. 



Both species are propagated from seeds. 



See Hedyotis. 



Anacampsekos Sec Purslane.- 

 Anana SVc Pine-apple. 

 Anchoaca See Mallows. 



AKCHOVY PEAP. GPJAS. 



Cl. 13, on. 1. Poijjandria monn<ri/nia Nat. ou. Doubtful. 

 Tlie generic name is taken from a plant in Apuleius^ 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed coriaceous perianthium, cup-shaped, the montc 

 having four blunt clefts, finally lacerated ; coxoUa tbur-petaled, roundish, con- 

 cave, coriaceous; the stamina are numerous setaceous hluments, longer than the 

 corolla, and inserted into the square recejitacle, united at the base in a five-fold 

 row, bent in, inner ones sliortcst, roundish anthers ; the pistiliuni has a somewhat 



D 2 depressed 



