asi.ke:s.> If.ORTUS JAMAICENglS. Cf 



4. CYM03A. CYMED. 



Udiotropii flore, frutex, folio ma.vbno ohlongo ammivafo, plahro. 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 109, t. 212, f. 2. Frutcscens humilis, foliis mcKr- 

 imis oblongo ovatis n/gosis, spiels paidulis rariorilius^ramulis eras- 

 sis sulcatis. Browne, p. 1(59. 

 Leaves ovate, quite entire, nalvcd, tpikes cyiued. 

 *nie stem growj three feet high; tlie. brandies are hcrhaceous, angular, grooved, 

 smooth; the leaves ovate-hmceolate, long, petioled, smooth, wrinkled bencatiu - 

 Flowers sessile on one side, disposed in iwj rows, live-coriiereJ, greenish white ; tlie 

 stigma is heade-d ; the l)erry roundish, wiiite, with one pore at the top, Iwo-cclled, 

 with two seeds in each cell. The whole phuitis fetid. Sew. 



Tae large leaved shrubby tonrnefortja is sofnetimss observed in the woods, and reiay 

 U reckoned rather a piant of a few years standing tiian a shrub ; it rises generally from 

 five to seven or eiglit feet in height, and is remarkable f.>r the thickness of its upjjeE 

 branches, and Uje length of its jiendulous flower spikes . the leaves are. very largej^ 

 iOiiietancs ii foot or more ia length. Brozoi^.. 



5. SUFPRUTICOSA. SHRUBBY. 



. . Thipndca facie frutex maritimus tetraspermos-, (lore tttrapctalo. .- 



Sloane,- V. 2, p. 29, t. 162> f. 4. Sahfrutieosa, foliis subiiieanis ol\J' 

 lorigis, fyotule comosa. Browne, p. 170. 



liieavcs sublanceolatte, hoary, stem suffriiticose. 



Tlsis bus woody stalks, and rises six or seven feet high, from which sprin"- mcny 

 slender woody branches. It has a red brown bark. Leaves about two inches Ion"-, and 

 an inch broad in the- middle, rounded at each eiid, but having acute-points, of a dark 

 green on their upper surface, but having a white down on their under side, and sittinr 

 close to the-branciies-; F-lawers terminating and axillari', in slender branching spikes, 

 which are ra-cur\^ed, and the flowers ranged- on one siJe of them ; they are white 

 (Sloane calls them yellow), and succeeded by small succulent berries, containing two 

 or three seeds. Browne calls it the ash-coloured sea side tournefortia, and found near 

 the sea f^ide, near the Burough in Rt. James's, and seldom rising above three or four 

 feet. This plant seems to be" the-5ivr/a)aj; ?ru//;;ff, at least Sloanc's plant is referred 

 to that genus, 



6. BICOLOS-. TWO-COLOUREW. 



Leaves ovate, aouminate, smojlh, somewhat wrinkled above, splices cyitied,^. 

 erect, recurved. Sew. Pr. 40.- 



This shrub is a fathom in height ; the trunk round, branched, even ; branches al- 

 ternpte, almost- upright, round, smaoth ;- leaves idternate, eniire, nerved, veined, 

 smooth oa both sides, somewliiit wrinkled above, and sometimes, but very seldom,, 

 rougli-haircd, even beneath and pale ; hence the trivial name of bicolor; petioles of a 

 mictdling length and-cven. Spikes terminating,. branched ; branchlets rc-curved, rough 

 haired, minj-- flowered ; calyx even ; corollas greenish white, with a hirsute hoar^- tube. 

 It is a native of Janiaica in. coppices. Stw. 



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