fc22> H OUT US JAMAICENSIS. -buddlka 



when th seed is ripe these membranes become somewhat larger, and the protuberant 

 part in the middle turns brown. It grew -among the trees, near the ruins of a monas- 

 tery in Spanish -Town. Shunt. 



The grains of this yjlant are hot and dry, and of thio and subtle parts ; they ar ft. good \ 

 against hysterics, andai-e esteemed great provocatives. Rarhanu, j). '25, 



See Arsmart. . 



No English Name. BUDDLEA. 



Cl. 4, OR. 1. Tctravdrla monogyma. NaT. or. Personatce. 



This was so named by Dr. Houston from Adam Buddie, who is often mentioned iii < 

 llay's Synopsis. 



Gkn. CHAR. Calyx a small four-cleft perianth; corolla one-petaliod, bell-shaped, 

 four-cleft halfway, erect, tliree times larger tiia,n the calyx stamina four filaments, 

 very short, placed at the divisions of the c-orolla, with verv siiort simple anthers ;. 

 the pistil has an ovate germ, style simple, shorter by half than the corolla, stigma 

 obtuse; the pericarp is an ovate, oblong capsule, two furrowed, two-celled; seetls 

 numerous, extremely minute ; adlieriiig to a fungous receptacle. One species is 

 a native of Jamaica. 



AMERICANA. AMERICAN. 



Verba.sci Jlore minore, arbor, florihus spicatis luteis tefrapetalis, semi- 

 mbus singitlis ohlougis in singulis vasculis siccis. Sloane, v. 2, p. 

 29, t. 173, f. 1. ^Issurgens incana, foliis majoribus moUilunugine 

 obductis, spicis assaygentibus lerniinalibits. Browne, p. 144. 



This shrub rises from five to ten feet, branched, and all over hoary ; leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, opposite, serrate ; flowers in long slender spikes, axillary, and terminating ; 

 composed of little, opposite, many flowered crowded racemes ; corolla coriaceous, 

 scarcely longer than the calyx ; divisions upright, yellow within, hoary on tlie outside, 

 Sxt<. 



This has a trunk as thick as one's leg, a white smootli, bark, with several brancbes, 

 whose ends are bowed down towards the ground ; the leaves come out opposite to one 

 another towards the ends of the branches ; they have scarce any footstalks, are three 

 niches long and half as broad, green abo^e and white underneath, somewhat like vibur- 

 num leaves. The tops of the twigs are branched into several inch-long stalks, every 

 one of which is very thick and close beset, with many tetrapetalous small yellow flowers, 

 v.'hich have a pale greenish calyx and no footstalk ; to each of which follows an oblong 

 or oval brown capsule, which is filled with a pretty large brown seed. It grows near 

 the banks of the Rio Cobre, in most gullies. Sloana. 



Dr. Browne caHs it the long-spiked bieddieia, and says it is very common in the CQoler 

 hills of Lignanea ; that it rises there only four feet or better, terminating in long slen- 

 der flower-spikes. It is used in emollient baths and fomentations, and thought to have 

 11 the properties of the true mullein. Browm. 



