SUTTON HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 12ft 



rough-haired ; stipules connate, memhranaceoTis, bristly at the edge. Flowers sessile, 

 small, white ; calyx four-toothed, very short ; tube of the corolla round, funnel-shaped, 

 border four-parted, rcHexed ; hlaments standing out, anthers blue ; germ hisped ; 

 style length of stamens, bifid at top ; stigmas blue, refJexed ; seeds two, covered and 

 united by a skin, crowned with the teeth of the calyx, rough-haired ; when stripped 

 of the skin, black and smooth. Sw. 



This is common about all the fields in Liguanea ; it seldom rises above twelve or 

 fourteen inches, and is easily known by its cblong leaves and arched veins ; it is very 

 like the worm grass at first appearance, but the stalk of this is quadrangular, and hol- 

 low, that of the other roundish and smooth. j^runnie. 



4. VILLOSA. HAIRY, 



Villose, simple, leaves ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, the uppermost in fours ; 

 flowers in whorls ; stamens included. 

 This species is distinguished from the hirta by its more simple stem ; oblong leaves, 

 the uppermost in fours ; its villosity ; the whorls of the Howers, and shorter stamens 

 within the tiffoat of the corolla. They are both annuals. Sw. 



5. SPINOSA. SPINED. 



Erecta simplex, fol its ianceolatix, 7iervis denticulatis, Jlaribus consti-' 

 patis ad alaj. Browne, p. 1 40. 



Suffruticose, leaves linear-ciliate, with spinules. 



Stem herbaceous, almost simple, subdivided at the base, hard, leafy, four-cornered. 

 Tugged, a foot high. Leaves opposite and decussated, sub-sessile, lanceolate-linear, 

 acuminate, nerveless (except the middle) ; nerves and margins tooth-letted backwards,, 

 and somewhat spinulose. Flowers in a sort of globular axillary whorl, invelucred v,'ith 

 the stipules, clustered, white ; stipules membranaceous, bristly at the edge, rigid ; 

 calyx two or four toothed ; teeth linear, longer than tlie corolla ; tube short, border 

 four-cleft, with ovate segments; filaments included; anthers whitish; style bifid j 

 stio-mas erect, included. Sjd. 



Browne says this plant is common in all the savannas about Kingston, it rises gene- 

 rally by a simple upright stalk to the height of fourteen or sixteen inches, having from 

 space to space, lanceolate, opposite, embracing leaves. Flowers numerous, white, 

 gathered into compact axillary heads, that grow gradually larger and more distinct as' 

 as they draw nearer to the top. 



CABBAGE. 



