jlRNOTTO HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 7 



j\';> English Name. ARISTEA, 



Cl. 3, OR. 1, Triandria mo)wgynia. Nat. or. Ensatte. 



Gen. CHAR. "Calyx sexpartite ; corolla hexapetalous ; style declining ; stigma s';-n- 

 pie anJ bell-shaped; capsule oblong trigonal ; seeds many. 'V\\c. capitatsiwis,'x\^ 

 troducedby Mr. W'allen, and is the monea cerulea of JNjliller, 



c.vriTATA. 

 Scape round, leaves distich, hcails of flowers alternate, spathes nicnibraaa- 

 ccoiis entire. 

 This is a large and ornamental plant, the stem three or four feet high, nearly twice 

 ihc length of tlic leaves round, somewhat wingeil by the alternate, decurrent, cauline 

 .leaves, Upright, subiignesccnt. Leaves linear, ensiforni, stiihsh, finely striated, wiiii- 

 ont any prominent rib-likc nerve, polished, dark green. Spathes and involucre; 

 meinbranous, scariose, and acute. Corolla blue, the segments obovate, equal, tvv'ist- 

 ing round each oiher in a spiral form, when they close. Jtbears an aljundance of seed, 

 of which there are two or thre<: in each cell, and by which it is easily ]:)ropagated, as al- 

 ;SO l)y the otYsers or suckers, which it throws up, but i.otin j^reat numbers. This only 

 .-thrives in the coldest mountainous situations in Jamaica. 



See MOUJ5A. 



ARNOTTO OR ROCOU. BIXA. 



Cl. 13, OK. \.Poii/andi'iamonogynia Nat. OR. Cvlumnifertv. 



The generic name was adopted from the Indian name used by Oviedo in his Histoiy 

 of I-iidia or Spanish Ameuca. 



Gen. CHAE. The calyx is pcrinancnt, five-parted, obtuse, flat; the corolla double, 

 the exterior five ol)long thick petals dropping oil as they expand, the interior like 

 but thinner ; the stamina are numerous setaceous filaments, half the length of the 

 corolla ;. the anthers erect, roundish, and purple; stigma bifid comjiressed ; the 

 fruit an heai't-shaped compressed capsule, surrounded with hairs, formed of two 

 valves, opening at the angles, containing only one cell, but with an interior bivalve 

 membrane; the seeds are numerous, turbinated and truncated at the undjilicus ; 

 tlie receptacle is linear, longitudinal, and grows to the middle of the valves. 

 There is only one species known. 



ORELLANA. 



JJriicu. Sloane, v. 2, p. 52, i. IS I, f. 1. Foliis cordatis cum acumi- 

 nc, floribus i-acemcsis terininalibus. Browne, p. 254. 



Tliis rises vvith an upright stem to the height of ten or twelve feet, sending out ma- 

 ny branches at the top, formiug a regular head, garnished with heart-shaped leaves, 

 cndinfT in a point, and having long footstalks. The flowers are produced in ]oo.';e pa- 

 nicles at the ends of t!ie branches, of a pale peach-colour, having large petals and a 

 great number of bristly stamina of the same colour m the centre. After the flower is 



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