HROO.u HORTUS JAMA ICKX SIS. IH 



Tliis generic name is cleriveJ from a Greek name for a pot-hcrl>, sakl to bo very 

 bitter. 



Gen. char. Cal^-x a five-leaved perianth ; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acute, erect, 

 deciduous; coioila five-jxetajled, oblong,, oh.tnse, narrower beneath, erect, iengtiv 

 of tlie caiy.\ ; the stamina are numerous iibiuients, capillarv, shorter than the co- 

 rolla, with small anthers ; the pistil has an oblong gcrni, furrowed ; style thick, 

 short; stigma two-cleft ; the pericarp is an oblong, five-celled, five-va!\ed, cap- 

 sule; seeds very many, cornerecL pointed. Two species arc natives of.Iamaira, 

 siliquosus and testuuns ; and two others^ natives of the East InUies, have lately 



- been introduced by Dr. D. Brown. 



I. SII.IQUOSUS.. PODDED. 



Carc/ioro ajjini!}, chaiiufdryox folio, flore staminco, scminjhux alris 

 quadrauiiulis dupliti. seric d/spnsi/is. SloiUie, v. 1, p, l-^V, t. 94, 

 f. 1. Foliis minoribus ovulis. cveiiatis, Jloribiis singnlafibus. 

 Browne, p. 147. 



Capsules linear, compressed,, two-valved, two-celled ; leaves lanceolate, equally 

 se^-rate. 



This Browne calls hroomrveed, and it is also named itervjandcr Icavrd corchoriu. It 

 is an herbaceous plant, but branched like a shrub, witli a round smooth stem, and al- 

 iernate, upright, pubescent branches ; leaves petioled, alternate, small, nerved, smooth, 

 *vith smaller leaves in the axils ; stipules subulate, opposite. This is a common plant 

 in all the sugar colonies, and seldom rises above three feet ; it grows in sandy places, 

 .and is genei-ally used for besoms by the negroes. Szeartz K Bro~u'iu'. 



Burham calls this plant pimprrmdl, and says it ' Has a very deep-hlackish coloured 

 yoot, which sends uj) a round brownislt woody stem, rising three or four feet high, be- 

 ing divided into branches on every hand. The leaves come out sevei^al Ujgether, some 

 greater, some smaller, at half an inch distai^ce, on half-incU long foot-stalks ; they ar 

 iialf an iiich long, and a quarter broad at the base (where broadest), of a grass-green 

 colour, indented about the edges like germander, but smooth. Opposite to the leaves 

 .come yellow flowers,., being stamineous ; after which follows a two-inch long dark pod, 

 X)r seed vessel, shutting like those of the sesimum, but more like the spirit- weed, only- 

 having two roiunl sides, and a partition in the middle ; in which are two rows of seeds, 

 i)lack and quaelrangular. The pod, when ripe, opens at the end, ar;d scatters the seed 

 iike as the spirit weed. Barham, p. 145. 



2. AESTUANS. BURNING. 



Subvillosa, foliis rotimdioribu.s iinduluiis atqiie dtntatis ; dfntibus pos~ 

 trcmis in setas inermes abeuntibus.^ Jtoribus alaribus. Browne, p. 

 232, t. 25, f. I. 



"Capsules three-celled, three-valved, three-sided ; angles bifid, scabrous ; 

 leaves oblong, the lowest serratures setaceous. This has three bifid styles. 



The stem is strong rising two or three feet, divided at top into two or three braiiches ; 

 leaves on long petioles, and between them several smaller leaves nearly of the same 

 form, silting close to the branches ; the flowers come out singly on the side of the 

 branches. Browne say.s it is a native of Jainaica, but not common ; the stem and 

 branches sleadur ; leaves roundish, jagged, and undulated ; the bark of a brown colour, 



3. OLITORIU.S. 



