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lindric, length of stamens ; stigma olituse,. hisped; the pericarp is an ovate cap- 

 . eule, two or three celled, two or tln-ee valved, gaping- at the top, girt hy the ca- 

 lyx ; dissepiineafs contrary to the valves ; seeds a great maay, very small ; re- 

 ceptacle conic. Three species arctnative^ of Jamaica. 



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1. LONGilLORA. LONG -FLOWER ED. 



JiapiJ.nciiltcs aquaticus, foliis ckhorii, Jlore albo, tuhulo longissimo. 

 Sioane, v; 1, p. 158, t. 101, f. 2. Fnliis lanceolatis, dentatis ; pe~ 

 (iimctilis hrevissimis, laferalibus i tubo flaris tcnui longissimo.-^ 

 Browne, p. 322. 



Leaves la'nceolatc, toothed ; pedmicles very short, lateral ; tube of tlic corolla 

 filiform, very long. 



This plant is frequent-in Jamaica near rivers and iamoist cool shady places, gi-owin^ 

 from fourteen to sixteen inchesin height. It has a deep thick root. "^The stem groWs 

 almost upright, and much branched from the axils ; leaves alternate,' sessile, sub-pin- 

 natifid-tootiied, broadest at the further end, half a foot long, rough, of a whitish green 

 colour. Peduncles one-flowered, bracte awl-shaped, calyx truncated, with five distant' 

 tooth-letteil teeth. The corolla handsome, upright, white, witti,a very long tube, and 

 equal border. Capsi-Je green, when it bursts at the ripening of the seeds. "The whole 

 plant contains a milky acrid juice, and is very poisonous. Taken internally it is, said to 

 bring on an invincible purging ; and if even handled, and the hand be unawares ap- 

 plied to the eyes or lips, it will l)r(ng on an inflammation. The root has a very pun-' 

 gent disagreeable taste, quickly spreading from' the tongue to th^ throat, and not easily 

 got rid olf. Horses are reported to burst with eating it, whence, in tlie Spanish \est 

 'Judies, it has the najne of revenla-cavallos^ 



2. ASSURGENS. RISING, 



Mojor brachinta, assurgens ; foliis oblongo ovafiSf-dcnticuIafig, bast 

 appendiculdti?, utriitgue productis ; spicis terminalihus. BrowuCj 

 p. 322. 



X.eaves43road-Ianceo!ate, serrate ; tooth-letted and decurrent below; racemea 

 compound, terminating. 



Hoot perennial. Stem herbaceous, three or four feet high, simple, or only sirnply 

 idtvideil at top, angular, thick, smootli, red, milky. Leaves sub-sessile, or on very 

 rghort petioles, ovate-lanceolate, a foot long, alternate, nerved, smooth on both sides ; 

 toothlets at the base of the leaf linear; petioles very short, decurrent at the sides, 

 whence the stem is winged, continued under the leaf to the tip, tliick, red ; raceme 

 almost upright, curved. Flowers numerous, heaped, blood-red, very large, pubescent| 

 on round peduncles, an inch in length, widi linear bractes at their base ; calyx supe- 

 rior, with five long lanceolate, reflex, serrate teeth ;, corolla nerved inwards ; the an-, 

 tlier has Ave blue grooves ; geim infeirior, angular, surrounded by the calyx ; style 

 thick ; stigma inclosed within the anther, capitate-compressed, white, viilose ; capsule 

 angular, two-celled, crowned by the calyx Suk Browne says this is found chiefly in 

 'the cooler mountains, where it shoots fre(|ueatly to the height of five or six feet. 



3. ACUMINAT.U POINTED. 



Sapiincidus folio oblongo, serrato, Jlore galcato, integro, pallide luteo, 



A blOiyie^ 



