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Pomes angular, tuberclcd ; leaves villose, .longituclinally palmate. . 

 Tiiis is called the hairy cerasce. Htem round, slender, branched, climbing by Jatercil ' 

 tendrils. Flowers_ sometimes hermaphrodite. Corolla yellow, nsiiidly (ive- parted, but 

 sometimes six-parted. Stamens three, connected. Fruit oblong, bluntly angular,, 

 tubercled, drawn to a poi-nt.at each end, white, yellow, or green,, on the outside;, 

 within very red and fleshy, one-celled, bursting eiastically. Browne observes, that 

 both these plants are frequently cultivated in Jatoaica, and thrive very luxuriantly ifi 

 most of the, gurdeujs about Kuigston ; he also says the leaves boiled, and the decoction 

 of the plant, are equally used to promote the iochiae ; the hrst by way of green, the 

 Other as an apozem and are both reckoned serviceable on these occasions. 



3. LUFFA. 

 Ponies oblong, grooves like a chain ; leaves gashed. 

 This is called Egyptian momordica. The stem is angular, very much branched, 

 climbing by bifid spiral tendrils. Leaves having five or seven sharp angles, the nsiddie 

 one double the lengtii of the others, unequally serrate, veined, wrinkleii, on long al 

 lernate petioles. Male corollas six-parted, several together ; females solitary, five- 

 parted, reflex. Pome a foot long, .two inches thick, rouudi.sli, usually drawn to a. 

 point at each end, hairy, three-celled, with a white flaccid, esculent pulp, of an in- 

 sipid flavour. Seeds oblong, compressed, smooth. This has-been called the .j/rrt/wf/* 

 innc, because the reticulated j)art of the fruit is sometimes separated from the pulpy-^ 

 and made punch strainers of. 



No English Name. CERBERA. 



Cl. 5, on. 1. Pentandria mohogynia. Nat, or. Contortoe. 

 This name is derived from cerbereus, on account of the poisonous qualities of the 

 plants. 



Gen char. Calyx a five-leaved perianth ; corolla one-petalled, funnel-form, con~ 

 torted ; border five- parted; stamens subulate; filaments with erect anthers; the 

 pistil has a roundish germ, filiform style, headed stigma ; the pericarp a large 

 drupe; seed a two-ceiled nut. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



THEVETIA. 



Arborescens foliis lanceolalis, floribus fuuce ampliatis sub-campamt- 

 latis. Browne, p. 181. 

 Leaves linear, very long, crowded. 



This is an elegant shrub, which Browne calls the v arrow ^leafed phimerw, that grows - 

 commonly seven or eight feet high, and always full of slender flexile branches; the 

 flowers are yellow, and moderately open below the margin ; he observed it grow 

 near Port Maria and Morant Bay. The stem is round, unarmed, abounding in a poi- 

 sonous milky juice, dividing at top into many weak branches, which are generally sim- 

 ple, loose, round, smooth, covered with scars from the leaves that have dropped ; aad ; 

 covered with a green smooth bark, which, as they grow older, becomes rough and 

 changes to a grey or ash-coloiu-. Leaves on very short petioles, scattered at tlie ends ^ 



