230 HOIIT'JS .TAMAICENSIS. coM.\reOr.' 



Leaves peltate, orbicular-coi(J;ite, blunt, rcpand ; spikes iiinbel'fed. 



Browne Cirlls this tlic lart^er colt's foot, with iinibilicated leaves. He think'sit only a 

 vanauon of llie fort'going, or so like i-t, Uiat the tlisposition of' the sinus of llie leaves 

 makes liic \\liole diilciente betutjen tJieni ; and ad(.ls, that it is not used like tii-'J 

 other, 



iice Pepper- Elder. 



COMINIA. ALLOPITVLLUS. 



Cl. 8, OR. 1. Octandria viomgr/iu'a. Nat. <jR. Guitifer/p. 



Gen. char. Calyx a four-leaved perianth, leaflets orbindate, two exterior, oppo 

 site, smaller by half ; -corolla four-petaled, less than the calyx, -orbicuiate, equal, 

 claws broad, leiigtii of the tvvo smaller leaves of the calyx ; the stamens have tih- 

 forni fdanients, the length of the. corolla ; anthers roundish ; the pistil has a supe- 

 rior genu, roundish, twin ; style filiform, longer than the stamens ; stigma bififj. 

 With the diviiious rolled hack. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



COMINIA. 



Bccci/era Indica trifolia, fnictiifrotimdo monopyreno. Sloane, v. 2, 

 p. 100, t. 20S, f. 1. Arhoreafoliis midulatis piniiato-ttr)iatis, Jlo- 

 ribus minimis, racemis tenniiialibus. -Browne,, p. -05. 



Leaves ternate ; flowers in panicles. 

 The stem is the thickness of 'the hf.man thigh, rising thirtv* feet in height, with a 

 r.niooth ash-coloured ba<"k. Petioles two inches long, russet coloured and hairy. Leaf- 

 lets four inches and^. half long, two inches broad in the-middle, dark green above, and 

 wooliy underneath. Flowers very-ciumeroiis, -whitish yellow, small, set very close to 

 one another, round a stalk an inch and a half long, like an anient or catkin ; there are 

 three or four of these spikes, and sevei-al of them cornefrom the ends of the twigs. 

 To these succeed small orange-coloured smooth ber?ies, the size of small pins headsj 

 havinf a single stone in them, with a thin brittle sliell, and a large kernel in propor- 

 tion to the fruit. It grows on the Red Hills, and in most woody hills,- very plentifully 

 in Jamaica. The pulp of the berries is very dry and little. .SVoc?)^. 'Browne saj's he 

 observed it about the Angels, and in the upper parts of Liguanea, growing in hedges, 

 where it seldom rose above eight or ten feet; with roundish leaves, and the bcrriei 

 very thick and small. 



COMMELINE. COMMELINA. 



Cl. 13, OR. 1. Triandria mcnogynia. Nat. or. E7isttf<e. 



This name was given in honour of John and Caspar Commelins, brothers, and fa- 

 jnous Dutch botanists. 



Gen. CHAR Caly.K a cordate spathe, converging, compressed, very large, peima 

 Bent ; the corolla has six petals, of which the three exterior are satall, ovate, con- 



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