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No English Name. ^ CELOSIA, 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandria momgynia. \Nat. or. Miscellannt. 

 Gek. char. Cal} X -a three-leaved perianth ; corolla five^petalled ; stamina con- 

 ^joined to the base by a plaited nectary ; capsule gaping horizontally, One species 

 is a native of Jamaica. 



PANICUL.ATA. panicled. 



jimarantusfruticosus erecfus, spica virfcli, Jara^et sfHgosa. Sloane^ 

 V. 1, p. I-i-'2, t. 91, f. 1. FoUis shlonga-j jionbiirS racemose spicatis^ 

 /ere sessilibus. .Browne, p. 179. 



Tills plant is common in the lowlands about Spanish Town and Kingston. Stem snf- 

 fruticose, prostrate, round, tab-divided, striated ; branches diverging ; leaves acu- 

 njinate, potioled, entire, smooth; spikes raceuied, axiilary, and leijminating, short. 

 Flowers distinct, whitish. 'The cal3'x consists of- five ovale, acute, lealiets, whitish 

 within ; there is ho corolla, but a cnp-shaped, five-cornered .nectary, surrounding tlm 

 gerai ; to the edge of this the filaments dire affixed. Tlie anthers are versatile and pur- 

 ple ; germ ovate ; style subulate, simple, red; stigma triSd; capsule covered by the 

 permaoent calyx, vwUi jiuuierous shining seeds. -Sk'. 



This shrub has greenish, woody, . and snT-iH stalks, rising to aiwnt tv/o and a half feet 

 ; bigh. The leaves are many, smooth, of a dark green colour, placed along the branches 

 without order, on half inch long footstalks. Tliey are an inch long and three-quarters 

 broaci, where broadest, a little from the round base, whenoe they. decrease to the point. 

 The flowers stand in pikes at the tops of the branches, about three. inehes long, are 

 not open, but made up of five leaves, of a yeilov/ish green colour, in tlie niiddie of 

 which is a large blackish stylus, which ccmes in sometime to be a seed vessel or husS^, 

 containing si^veral seeds, each of which is scarce discernible to the eye, shining,. aii,| 

 of a brawn colour, nundish, and hollow on one side like a dish, if vievved h/ UiG iUi-^ 

 .ovoscope. It grows by the banks of the Rioi Cobre.^-/SYi)3*< 



"CERASEE. :MOMaRDICA. 



Cl,. 21, OR. 9. Monoecia syngcnesia. NaT. iiR.-^Ciicur^t'fsefig, 



This name is derived from the L-dX'm.word inordeOg to bite^froQj tti^seadsit^yjcg^^tB 

 (appearance of being bitten. 



Oen. ciiAR.-^Male calyx a one-leafeJ, five-cleft, perianth ; in h*3 concavepaFt bg- 

 neath the corolla is a hollow nectareous gland ; corolla fivci^ parted, fa.itpned to th^ 

 calyx, spreading, large, veined, wankled; the stamens are.three 5,wt|ipnts, (liva 

 have been observed,) awl-shsiped, and siiort ; antUers, on two fiiai-uents, bifi-J, 

 . eared at the sides, on the third.simpie ;:i.iid one-earea only, coft-sjsUlig of a CQm- 

 pressed body and a f iriniferous line, -once regies. TJje ftSiaale caiyjt and cotod* 

 as in the male ; the female cup .permanent, and crowning the fruiC ; the |ij. tuents 

 three, short, without anthers; the pistil has an inf"tirior largs g.fmi ; styie siag!e, 

 round, trifi I, colunmar ; stigmas three, gibbous, oolong, paiu'.riig oiiUvards ; tiie 

 pericarp is a dry pome, opening elastically, ttirse or iaar-celted, ceiia iiienibra" 



