c.2 ' IIORTUS JAMAICENSI8. esucuTED 



CROSSWORT. VALANTIA. 



Cl. 23, OR 1. Polygamiamcjioecia. Nat. or. .SVeZ/a-V. 

 So named in Loaour of tjebiibtian Vaillant, an einiiient French botanist. 



Gen. char. Tliere is no hermapliradiie calyx ; tiie corolla is four-parted ; stamens 

 four-li laments; style biiid ; se(;d one : there is no male calyx ; tha corolla three 

 or four-parted ; stamens three or four ; pistil obsolete. One species is a native 

 of Jamaica. 



HYPOCARPIA. 



Rulr.a. Suhhirsu^a scandcns vel reclinata,foUis crvciatis flortbus sin 

 gvUirihus ad alas. Browne, p. 141. 



All the flo\\ers quadrifid below the germ ; pedimcles naked, one-flowered. 



Stem herbaceous, from one to three feet high, loose, branched, grooved, rugged; 

 branches opposite, numerous, divaricating, suh-divided, patulous, loose, hirsute. 

 Leaves in four's, sessile, small, oblong, entire, convex, channelled at the base above, hir- 

 sute-hispid. Flowers peduncled, axillary, small, yellow; peduncles shorter than the 

 leaves or of the same lengtli, pubescent ; calyx i'our-leaved, inferior, scarcely bigger 

 than the corolla ; leaflets ovate with ii short point, rough haired, rugged. Filaments 

 very short, anthers roundish, very minute ; germ superior, minute, two-grooved ; 

 style very short, pellucid ; berries two, connate, fulvous, small, one-seeded : seeds 

 roundish, whitish, shining. S'w. Browne found this plant in the middle mountains 

 of Litruanea ; it is very weakly, grows in tufts, and seldom rises above two or three 

 feet. Barham calls it goose-grass, from its resemblance to the plant known by that 

 iiaiTfte. 



CRUCIATED GRASS. CHLORIS. 



Cl. 23, o?... \.~PolT/gamiamonoecia. Nat. or. Gramin/e. 

 Gen. chak. ^The hermaphrodite calyx is a two-valved glume, two-flowered, awned; 

 there is no corolla ; there are three stamens, two styles, and one seed : the male 

 calyx is a one-vaived glume ; the female calyx, a sessile two-valved glume. Five 

 species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. cruciata. -cruciate. 

 Gramen dactylon Income minimum aristis longts armafum. Sloane, 

 V. 1, p. 112, t. 69, f. 1. Cruciatmn spicis brevioribus ct crassiori' 

 bus, dear sum frugiferis. Erowne, p. 136. 



Spikes about four, cruciate; florets pointed. 



This has very small fibres or roots, from which rise small, narrow, capillary, pale 

 .green leaves about an inch long ; from the middle of these rise very small jointed 

 round stalks several inches high, having so many joints, and at each joint a leaf. At 

 the top stands its panicle, divided into two spikes, like two horns, having a few seeds, 

 each of which has an arista or awn. i'loa7ie. Browne says it is iiardj and kmd pastur- 

 agCj and calls it the shori-shaiiked cruciatcd grasso 



2. CILIATji, 



