26- HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



AnGYTHAMNlA 



rounilish, covered with a hard brittle bark, like a luit. There are several species, 

 two of which have been found in tliis island. 



1. TIMrOUA. 



Jasmiuum forte, arboreiiw, foliis lanrinis, oh/usis latioriliii.<! atrovi- 

 rciitihus, Jiore pcntapetalo racemosa purpurea rcficvo. - Stoane, v. 2,. 

 }). 98. 



Flowers panicled, leaves elliptir, entire, neiTcd, stem arboreous. 

 This rises about thirty feet high, having a clay or ash coloured smooth baric ; its t'^ igs . 

 are set with smooth duvk-green leaves, four inclies long and two broad in the middle, 

 haviaj an eminent midrib and footstalks a quarter of an inch long. The flowers are 

 pnrple and rcflexed. It grows in Liguanca mountains. Sloane. 



2. CORI.\CEA. 



Flowers panicled, leaves oblong, entire, veinless coriaceous. S:c Pr. 4S.- 



No English Name.- AHGYTHA.MNIA." 



Cl. 2], OR. 4. Monoecia tctrandrla. Nat. or. Trieocciv.- 



The name is derived from two Greek words, signifying a little' white shrub. 



Gek. char. Male calyx fom- lanceolate leaves ; corolla four petals lanceolate-ovate', 

 ciliate on the m.argin, shorter than the calyx ; nectary i'our glands between the 

 jietals, roundish, depressed; filaments four, longer than the petals, approximat- 

 ed at the base, dilated, anthers simple; the pistilhnn the rudiment of the style : . 

 tiie female in the same raceme under the male, calyx a five-leafed perianthium, 

 leaflets lanceolate ; no corolla; gernien ovate, somewhat three-cornered; styles ^ 

 three, spreading, half two-cleft, each of the clefts bind; stigmas lacerate ; "tJic 

 pericarpium a tricoccoas capsule, three-celled,. six- vah cd ; the seeds sohtary and. 

 rov'ndish. Tiiere is only one species : 



CAXDICANS. 



liicino (iff.nis odorifera frulicosu viinor, tencrii folio, fructu tricocco 

 dilute purpiireo. Sloane, v. I, p. 1:33, t. 86, f. 3. I'rutivosa, io- 

 ta (tlhida ; foliis ol)'o7igisy7iertis paucioribus nrcuatis. Browne, 338. 

 This shrub seldom rises above five feet in height, and the trunk and branches are co- 

 vered with a whitish bark. The branches are four or five feet long, sometimes risin"- 

 upward, and at other times lying along the surface of the earth. The twigs have leaves 

 at their ends, standing. round them, about an inch in breadth, oval, senate, and of a 

 \ery dark green colour, something like germander. Plovvers axilinry^on very short pe- 

 tluncles. Calyx five-leaved ; stamens six, greenish ; seed-vessel tricocccus, green, 

 becoming as big as that of heliotropium tricoccon, only it is smooth, and of a very 

 pleasant pale purple colour. The leaves, when bruised, are very odoriferoiis. This 

 plant grovi's chiefly in the lower hills of this island, in dry gravelly soil. SI. &' Broxcne. 

 The (itcraniruis of Browne has been referred to this gejius, and boUi united to. the 

 order of euphorbias. 



