^i-2 - H'ORTD.S J'AMAICENSIS. CCTTo;* 



'You ma}- depend upon it I sliall not fail to avail myself of this di<;Mverv, which I hope 

 will !>e tlie moans uf procuring ai least such a pijce as yvas ^iven to Mr. M'Intosh, of 

 the Caicos, two years <igo." 



An emulsion of the seeds of the barlhidense are said tabe p;ood against* the bloody- 

 flux, and are thought pectoral; the .oil clears die skin of spots and freckles. Tlie seeds 

 jield a great quantity of oil by expression, and sufipJy many plantations with that com- 

 modity. A tea made of the young leaves.is good in a [-j.^ hubit, and the 'patient should: 

 ;jit avex the hot decoction of the same. 



2. HIRSUTUM. SHAGGY. 



i-*r6c<:r!us, foliis trilobis, soninibus minoribus virentibus. Browne^ 

 p. L!82. 



Leaves five-lobed, with one gland underneath ; the twigs and petioles pu^ 

 bescent. 



Stem shrubby, a fathom in height-, erect, striated ; branches hirsute : leaves alter- 

 i>ate ; the upper ones undivided, cordate, acute, en tire, rough vvith haks about the 

 edge ; the lower three-lohed, the lobes little divided, ovate, acute, entire, hir.sute 

 beneath, smooth above; petioles round, striated, dotted with black, hirsute. Tuere 

 is a single glandular pore on the midrib underneath, and sometimes two or three on the 

 next nerves. PecUfncles tiiree times shorter than the petioles, thick, stiff, hirsute, 

 dotted with black. Outer calyx three or five cleft, seguients ovate, acufe, rough wiiit 

 hairs ; the inner truncate, with three blunt teeth. Petals rounded, retuse, enrin% 

 yellow at the baiie, purple at the tip, pubescent on the outside ; germ ovate, acumi- 

 nate, dotted -witli black ; style longer than the stamens, three or five cleft at top, in- 

 clined ; capsule large, ovate, dotted with black, three-celled, three-valved ; seeds; 

 ovate, acute, green. Sw. 



This shrub is planted in a few gardens in Jamaica, but is not much cultivated ; for 

 the cotton is not thought to be so good, and the seeds are so small, that it is a difficult 

 matter to separate tiiem from the wool. It grows, however, more luxuriant than the 

 other, and rises generally from seven to nine feet in height, be-|iring a great number of 

 seed vessels on all the branches. Bn.'wne. 



Swartz mentions a variety called cotonier de suie, the cotton of which is. het.ter thaa 

 jaiy of tlie rest. 



COTTON TPvEE. BOMBAX. 



Cl. 16, OR. 5.: Monadelphia polyandria. NaT. or. Columnifera. 



Cen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, tubular, campanulate, permanent"; mout^ 

 three or five-cieft, obtuse, erect ; coroila five-parted, spreading ; segments ob- 

 long, concave ; .stumens five or many filaments, subulate, the length of the co^ 

 rolla, connate at the base ; anthers oblong, bent in, incumbent; the pistil has a 

 jroundish germ ; style rilitorm, the length of the stamens ; stigma capitate, five- 

 Jijothed ; the pencarp is a large capsule^ turhinate-ablong, five-celled, five- 



fiil-vecl; 



