4YEMA H OUT US- JAMAICENSIS. SiJ 



Gex. citar. Calyx one-leafed five-parted, parts ovate, oblong, acute, coloured 

 in the middle, reflex, withering ; corolla pcntapetalous, in the form of a star ; the 

 nectarium bell-shaped, sitting on a cylindric erect column, shorter than the calyx ; 

 -stamens very short filaments, inserted into the margin of the nectarj-, bent arch- 

 wise through a notch at tlie end of each petal ; anthers roundish ; germen round- 

 ish five-cornered ; style cylindric ; stigma obtuse, five-lobed ; capsule five-grain- 

 ed, roiuidish, muricate, five-celled, tea-valved, elastic. Xwo species grow in 

 this island. 



1. PUSILLA FEEBT.E. 



Urtic^ folio avomala, florc pentapetalo jiurpureo^ fructu peiitacoccQ 

 muricato. Sloane, v. 1, p. 209, t. 132, f.' 2. 



Leaves cordate, smooth. 

 It has a reddish, round, deep, oblong, root, from which spring several round green 

 l"OU"-li branches, about six inches high, the leaves are oval, snipt or cut on the edges,, 

 sniootli, anil standing on a snwdl footstalk. Between them and the stalk comes out a 

 small, pentapetalous, purplish, flower, standing on a very small reddish footstalk, 

 and having one large stylus, which ii> sometime grows red, large, and afl:erwai-ds rough 

 and brown, it is pentacoccous or divided into five cellulse, contauiing each a blackish 

 seed, and all are pendulous or inclining towards the ground. It grows among the grass 

 ji town savannas. Sloane. 



2. L(EVIGATA. SMOOTH. 



Leaves ovate, entire, quite glabrous j germ pedicelled ; nectary ten-cleft 

 jtadiate. Siv. Pr, 97. 



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