5iND'HQS HORTU.'^ JAMAICEMSISk ,<? 



coroil.i is bei!-shapetl, as in most flowers of tliis genus, blueish and small; the leaves 

 nre cordate or ovatp, with the e Igc snmewiiat repand and ronghish, ilie peduncles 

 shocter than the leat" ; umbellate, but the lateral pedicels are ofteu subdividedi 



3. UMBEI.LATUS. tlMBKLI.EO. 



Convok'-idus polyanthos, folio subyotundo, flare hit en. Sloane, v. !, 

 p. 154. Foliis(ordato-acumi7iaii^,foribus umbeUatis luteis, sus- 

 tentanilis longis alariins. Browne, p. 154. 



Leaves cordate, peduncles unibeliate. 



B-tem herbaceous, twining, filiform, stiff, subdi^-ided, pubescent, round. Leaves 

 aT)ont two inclies long, and as broad at the base, deeply cordate, lanceolate, angles of 

 the base rounded, edge sub-repand, entire, sul)-tonientose, dark green, hoary beneatli; 

 petioles three inches long, thickisli, round. Flowers many, ternunating on peduncles 

 .three inches long or more; partial peduncles three-quarters of an inch in length, three 

 flowered, each flower on a pedicel much longer than the partial peduncles. Corollas 

 yellow, the border plaited, obtusely pentangular. Two leaflets of the calyx a little 

 shorter than the rest. Anthers whitish, (jblong ; germ oblong ; style simple ; stigmas 

 two globular ; capsule two-celled, with one seed in each cell, black, angular-roundish, 

 velvet-\'iiiose. Sw. 



This plant is common about the Ferry, growing among the bushes ; it bears beautiful 

 veliow flowers, and the stalks are always margined on one side, but the capsules are 

 ('enerally small and oblong, and the figure of the leaves very various. Browne. 



4. QUINQUEFOUUS. FIVE-LEAVED. 



Levis vninor pentaphyUa, ccdicibushispidis,floribus quasi umbellatis. > 

 Browne's Iponiea 5, p. 155. 



Leaves digitate, smooth, toothed ; peduncles even. 

 Stem herbaceous, twining, filiform, round, hirsute. Leaves subpedate, in fi.ves, 

 digitate, the two inner divisions ..mailer, lanceolate, acute, serrate, nerved, veined, 

 smooth on both sides ; petioles round, recurved, pubescent, short ; peiluncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, twice as long as the leaves, three flowered, ^recj, pubescent ; pedicels 

 one-flowered ; calycine leaflets oblong, permanent, smooth, pale, the three inner ones 

 larger ; corolla bell-shaped, white, tube narrower at the base, swelling in the middle ; 

 torder five-cornered, plaited, spreading.; capsule roundish, two-celled, two-seeded. 

 Sw. 



This is Erowne's ipomea five, who calls it the smooth leaved tiger^s font, and says It 

 ,is frequent in the lowlands of .[amalca, and generally found creeping upon the groun(^, 

 or spreading over the lower bushes. 



5. REPENS. CREEPING, 



Convolvulus maritimus major nostras rotundif alius. Sloane, v. 1, 

 p. 156. 



Leaves sagittate, obtuse behind 4 stem creeping ^ peduncles one or two flow- 

 ered. ,. 



feerm creeping, jointed, rooting, angular, compressed, sub-divided ; leaves te'r- 



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