BASTARD HOilTUS JAMAICENSIS, 63 



BASTARD INDIGO. ' AMORPHA. 



Ci,. 17, o;t. 3. DJadelphia dccandriii. Nat. oa. Papilionaceic. 

 Gen. ciiAU. CaKx a onc-lt-afeJ periantliium, tu'juhir, and pereisteut ; corolla 

 ovate, concave, erect, scarcely larger than, and placed on tii^ ii])per side of, the 

 calj'x ; filaments longer t!:an the corolla, anthers simple , flie pisiilhiin has a 

 r(5undi.sh genr, suinilate style the length of the stamens, stigma simple ; thei pe- 

 ricarpiiim is a lunate Icgumen, reflected, larger than the calyv, and luberculated ; 

 the seeds are two oblong-kidney shaped. By the corolla alone, this genus may Ix; 

 distinguisiied from all known plants ; the petals being the bannei', aivl the wing-; 

 arid keel wanting', which is very singular in a papilionaceous corolla. There i^ 

 only one known species, a native of Carolina, antl introduced by Mr. Wiles, ia 

 1798. 



FRUTICO.i.A. SIIR'JGUV. 



It rises with many irrcguiar ftenis to the height of twelve or fourteen feet in its nativo 

 soil, in Jamaica it seldom exceeds four or five feet. It has very long winged leaves, i;i 

 shape like those of the consmon acacia, they are cf a pleasant green colonr, beautifully 

 pinnated, and terminate by an odd one. The flowers ai'e produced in long siendor 

 spikes, they are small, and of a deep purple coio|ir, which it throws out plentifully iu 

 this island every year, and makes a very shewy appearance, but produces no seed, 

 though easily propagated by cuttings, or laying down the yotuig branches. Ic thrives 

 best in cool situations. This shrub grows naturally in Carolina, where I'ormerly a co.irse 

 sort of indigo was made from the young shoots, whence the plant took its name. 



BASTARD IPECACUANHA. ASCLEPIA.^. 



Cl. 5, OR. 2. -Pen/andriu diff-jnii/. Nat. or. Coufort-r. 



"This is named from .'Esculapitis, the god of medicine. 



KjEX. char. Calyx a permanent periantliium, fire-cleft ; corolla monopctalous flat 

 or reflex, divided almost to the base iiit(j five oval acuminated segments, re!k'x, 

 but the points turned up ; nectaries five, ovate, concave, putting out a little hor:: ; 

 stamina five small filaments, anthers oblong, and affixed to a truncated body; 

 germs two, styles tw , stigma, conmion to both; pericarpium a large, oblontr, 

 smooth ventri(se, fohicle, pointed at the extremity, opening lengthwa^'s ; seeds 

 numerous, imbricate, crowned with a down ; reccpt;ac!e ine.iibninaceous. 



CURUASSAVIC.A. CURACOA. 



^pocyvinn ercclum folio cblonno, flore lunhe.Ilalo, pctalis coccineis rt- 

 tic.ris. Slor.ne, v. I, p. aOi-", t. 123, f. 4, ,;;, Er<'ctafo!iis anpjs- 

 Hs ccurninnlis -^erticilliter icnuitis, jiorihus umlx'ilaiis tiTminatrici^ 

 bus. Brjwne, p. 183. Blood Jhn-cr. Barham, p. 22. 



Lenves lanceolate, smooth, shining ; stem simple ; umbels erect, solitary-, la- 

 teral. 



This has strong and deep roots, several inches long, tlie inside white and wood\-, 

 -sending- out lateral fibres. The stem from one to tiu'L-e feet high, green, round, m^- 



risht., 



