3-V%TARn KORTUS JAMAICENSIS, ^7 



.sties, somewhat pnccu'ent, of a dark green colour. Tiio flowers yellow, helped in 

 ..form of an umbcilisie ; the iiranches spreading from a centre, eqiia!, dicliotoinou;; 

 the pedicels one-flowered. At the divisions of tlie peduncles are four small scale;?. - 

 Petals inserted witiin the rims of the calyx', broaJer at the base, ovate, relie.x, tl' i. 

 duous, yellow. Nectary a yellow four-parted rim, surrounding the germen. Fi..- . 

 .nients inserted betvvi.;en the divisions of tha nectary and deciduous; anthers orant^v ; 

 .style subulate ; berry ob\ong, black. Tnis plant is common in the kwiando, ani ;'oU:.i 

 triimbing upon penyuin fences, and other low bushes. 



2. TRIFOU.4TA. THREE LEAVED. 



Br%toniaal'oa triphijUa maxima. Sloane, v. !, p. f?33, t. 144, f. ?. 

 Triphylla scandals, fclits ovatis subckntulis, petiolo commuiii mur- 

 ' ginata, caliculis, majoribus. Browne, p. 147. 



Leaves in threes, roundish, hair^-, slight.y toothed; branches with membrana* 

 ceous angles. 

 Stem suiTrate.-cent, about the bigness of a goose-quill, cliaibing, having five or sis 

 -an;cs, knotted, rooting, branched, green, the angles slightiy winged ; Lrancaes 

 herbaceous, lax. Leaves three, always together, at a crooked jomt, on very iong 

 pentangular petioles, with opposite clavicles^ tlie leaves are smooiii, and of a 

 yellowish green colour. Leaflets on short petioles, ovate, acute, the lateral oni-s 

 oMique, serrate, nerved, smooth <m both sides. Stipules at tiie base of tiiG 

 petioicA roundish. Fiower.i umbelled, blood red. Conmion peduncle opposite to 

 tie petiole short. Umbel f.iur-cleft ; involucre fornieU of ttie fading scaies of the 

 base. Peiuncies partial, two-partod ; with the terminating unibehules and ped'ccls 

 coloured. Calyx, or rim of ihe germ, entire, and fjur-cornered ; petals minute-, red, 

 deciduous; nectary yellow ; filaments inserted into it and subulate; anthers yellow; 

 perm depressed ; style four-cornered ; stigma yellow ; berry roundish, one-seeded. 

 Tata id also a native of Jamaica, and climbs hign upon the branches of trees. 



3. QUADaANGUL.\[llS. .FOtJR-ANGLED. 



Leaves cordate, fleshy, serrate toothed, stem four-cornered, somewhat swelling, 



??tem very long, climbing, snooth, and even. Lcives alt>>rnate, peti jle I, subiiir- 

 :Sutp, smooth on both sides., sharply and rem. :>tely serrate. Petiol'-s roti.id. Ten Inls 

 pp )>ite to the leaves ; the root is tuberous. It is a native of the East Lidicj, aAiU AttS 

 introduce J by Mr. East. . 



Cifi Vine SoaaEL. 



BASTAUD BULLY TREE. BUMELT.t. 



Cl. 5, Oi. I. Pentandr'a monngijn'a. Nat. OR. Damos^ 

 This name is derived from the Greek name of a tree supposed to be a sort of asH. 

 CJen. CHAf?. Calvx a fivc-!eaved p^Miantbium, leaflets roundish ovate, incumbent 

 concave; corolla one-p'jtalled, five-cleft or five parted, tube very short, round, 

 border five-parted, parts ovate, entire, spreading, concave, with two little scaler 

 at the base of 'each; the nectiiry five-leaved, segments smaller than the corolla, 

 8t the base of the filaments, surrounding the germ, acute; filaments in- erted 

 *jiU> tac corolla^ at the bottoiu of the tube, bet.veea the lower segments, the ien 'th 



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