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corolla ; the pistil has an oblong germ, two-cleft ; style scarce any ; stigmas two, 

 obtiise ; the pericarp, two oliloiig, ; luninate, one-celled foliclts, gaping length- 

 wise ; seeui numerous, cbiong, crowned with a down, placed in an imbricate 

 manner. One species was found in this island by Swart^. 



CRISPIFLOUUM. CURL-fLOWEKEC. - 



Stem twining ; leaves underneath viliose, oblong, cordate, with the sinus closed j 

 petals curled at tiie ends. 



This genus is by some classed devundria, and none has giren more trouble to botan- 

 ists than it and .Vi;^t"jw/.y ^.^t'e Z^.v/a/'</ /y;e';atwaw/?()', /). 65), on account of the struc-> 

 ture of the genitals. They alliiave two germs, running out into conical styles, covered 

 "ivith a fungous i^entagoo body, all of which, except the upper .surface of the latter, are 

 so covered, first witli a sheath, and then with little bags hanging down and pressed' 

 'rlose^ that there does not seem to be the minutest opening to tiiese parts.- 



m English Name. CYNOMOTlTUIVt ' 



Cl. 21, OR. 1. Moiioeciamonandria. 'Nat. op.. yhnentaceie. 



jDen. char. Male flowers disposed in an imbricated anient with the female : calyx 

 an erect club-shaped anient, on every side covered with iloscnles ; perianth pro- 

 per, four- leaved ; leaflets three cla^'ate, and the fourth inferior, one larger, 

 very obtuse, channelled ; there is n'o corolla ; the stamens single filaments, firm, 

 straight, longer than the calycine scale ; anther twin '; female calyx a connnon 

 anient with the males ; perianth proper, superior ; leaflets four, club-shaped, 

 tuberculated, equal, permanent; no corolla; the pistil has an ovate, inferior, 

 germ; style single, erect, firm, sprctding, length of the calycine scale; stigma 

 obtuse ; there is no pericarp ; the seed is single, roundish. 



JAMAICENSE. J.\M.^ICA, 



Erectum, breve, cylindraceum, nudum ; prima atatc sgnamaium.^- 

 Browne, p. 334. 



Stipe scaly ; ament elongated ; scales imbricate, halved, rhomboidal. 



This little plant is seldom met with but in the most shad}' inland woods ; it grows in 



ibeds aiKl rises generally to the height of three, four, or fivo inches, but is commonly 



smallest towards the bottom. _ At first it is covered pretty thick with scales of the figure 



of a heart ; which fall otY gradually as it rises, and expose the body of tL^; }>lant thickly 



beset with little transparent denticles, intermixed witii a few tubular trifid tiov/ers, thai 



.jet above the level of the surface ; the stem of the plant is succulent andileshy, and oil 



4be parts astringent, Browne. 



Cyrilla. See Gesneria anci Ttea. . 



Li' 3AGGEE'. 



