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apctalous females so;netimes intermixed ; herniaplirodites fnnnel-form, with a 

 five- cleft reflex border ; stamens (in the iiermaplirodites) are fi^e capillary, very 

 short filaments, with cylindric tubulous anthers ; the pistil has an ovate germ, a 

 filiibrm style, the length of the stamens ; tlie stigma bifid-^in the females reflex ; 

 there is no pericarp ; the calyx permanent, shining; seeds solitary, oblong, small, 

 crown'ed with a capillary or feathered down ; receptacle nalvcd. Two species are 

 -natives of Jamaica. 



]. AMERICANUM. "AMERICAN. 



Erectum, spicaturii, simple.v, villo.mm et incanum ; foliis longis, 

 angastis, sessilibus, .et sem-' -ample lantibus. Browne, p. 313. 



Root leaves Ungulate-lanceolate, snow-white beneath; str.lk simple, upright, 

 tomentose ; flowers spiked andlateral, sessile, crowded, 



Browne calls this the mirrow-Ieafed undivided cudweed. It is a native of the coid/?st 

 'jmountains of Liguanea, and grov\s generally in most open places, but seldom rises 

 above six or nine inches in height. The flowers are yeHowish, and disposed pretty 

 thick about the lop of the stalk, which puts on the appearance of a shorter spike.-- 

 Broxi'ne. 



Baidiam calls these plants 5/(rtV?fl'.9, and says, "We have a wild sort or two: Ono 

 sort is called b}' some cassiduyry, or French lavender ; another is a sort of cudweed. 

 These plants are very astringent, and therefore proper for fluxes of the body, and all 

 defluxions of rheums. A syrup made of the tops of it, when in flower, is good for 

 coughs and catarrhs." Barliam, p. 184'. 



2. ALBESCENS. ^yIJITE. 



" Snowy tomentose ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; stalk upright, undivided at hot* 

 torn; branches terminating, fastigiate ; flov/crs crowded, conical. S'zf, 



CURRANT TREE. EHRETIA, 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandriamonogynia. N.AT. or. Asperifolice^ 

 Gen, char. See Bastard Cherry, p. 60. 



^ bourreria. 



Jasmirmm, peryclymeni folio, fiorc albo, fructuflavo, rofundo, tefra' 

 pyreno. Sloaue, v. 2, p. 96, t. 204, f. 1. Arhorea foliis ovatis 

 allernis, racemis rarioribusterviinalibus. Browne, p. 168, t. 15, f. 2. 



Leaves ovate, quite entire, smooth ; flowers in a kind of corymb ; calj'xes 

 smooth. 



This tree rises from eight to fourteen feet high, having several trunks, covered with 

 a clay-coioured or grey hark, like that of dogwood ; the branches very many, irregu- 

 lar. The leaves are twa inches long, rough on the upper side, alternate, petiolcd, 

 entire, various. Racemes corymbed terminating. Flowers white, sweet, with five 

 rouadish segments. Berries as big as peas, shining, saffron or orange-coloiired, pulpy, 



sweet. 



