;2W.l, HOUTUS JAMAICENSIS. 123- 



The glohcsa, or round headed buddlea, a native of Chili, with leaves lanceolatej 

 heads solitary, has also beea introducctl into this island. 



BULL-HOOF OR DUTCHMAN'S LAUDANUM. PASSIFLORA. 



Cl. 20, OR. 4. Gynandria pentandria. Nat.- OR. Cucurhitacc.r. 



This name was altered by Linneiisfromthe old name jinx passionis, which was given 

 to it from a fancy that all the instruments of our Saviour's passion was seen in tiie 

 flower. 



Gen. CHAR. The calyx is a five-parted -perianth, flat and colatired ; corolia five- 

 petals, semi-lanceolate, flat, blunt, of the same size and form with the calyx ; 

 nectiiry a triple crown, the outer longer, encircling the style within the petals, 

 more contracted above ; the stamens are five awl-shaped filaments, fastened to a 

 colimin at the base of the germ, and united at bottom, spreading ; with incumbent, 

 oblong, blunt, anthers; the pistil has a roundish germ, placed on the apex of a 

 straight cylindrical column ; styles thre-e, thicker above, .spreading, stigmas capi- 

 tate ; the pericarp is a fleshy berry, sub-ovate, one-celled, pedicelied ; the seeds 

 very many, ovate, arilled ; receptacle of the seeds triple, growing longitudinally 

 to the rind of the pericarp. Eighteen species of this genus are enumerated as in* 

 dJgeiious to Jamaica, of which the bull-hopf\s one. 



MURUCUJA. 



Foliis tenuioribus, trinerviis bicorniius, lunafis ; siitu ajiteriori obtvso^ 

 Browne, p. 228. 



Leaves cate, undivided at the base, dotted underneath ; nectary one-leafed. 

 Stem herbaceou, grooved, smooth ; leaves ovate or oblong, two horned, with ari 

 jntevme iiate bristle, tiree-nened, veined, smooth, entire ; dots on the back hollowed, 

 pellucid ; petioles grou,gj^ smooth, destitute of glands; tendrils sub-axillary, fihform, 

 long; flowers in pairs, a.ijij^^y^ scarlet, large; peduncles longei- than the petioles, 

 having two very small hhtoi^ ^.^ip^igg in the middle ; petals almost upright, blunt, a 

 liale smaller than the calyx; ' otary one-leafei^, tubular, growing on the petals and 

 talyx, with a yellow crown at the ^^.q^^. ; column longer than the corolla, erect ^ berry 

 , ovate, the size of a pigeon's egg, p dicelled. .i'a;. 



This plant is a clvmber (like most of the ^^^^ species), whose fruit is of an oblong- 

 , oval form, about the size of a large olive, anu f ^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^jp^ g^^j^ ^j^^ 

 syrup and the decoction of the plant is now n)u^, ^^^^ -^^ ^j^^ leeward parts of the 

 island, where it is frequent ; and is said to answer vx-^^tually all the purposes to which 

 the syrup of poppies and liquid laudanum are g^'n^M, ,i,^tgrgj -fhe flowers 

 have" been hitherto the most in use; they are common.^. .^^,, ^ ^^ pyunJed and 

 mixed immediately with, wine or sjjirits, and the composit. ^ ^.^u tj^ougin, a very 



effectual and easy nzxcotxc Browne. jo j 



See Granadilla Honey-Suckle Passion Flowers-,,^^^^^ Lemon 



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BULLY 



