S9f> HORTLrS JAMAICENSrS. 26V 



1. VTKGATUS, TWIGGY. 



Gramen dactylcn pankula longa, S spiels plurinus graciliorihus purpe- 

 reis -utl viridibits mvllihits consfa->Ue. . Sloan e, v. 1, p. 113, t. 70, 

 f. 2. LoUaceinn., pamcu'a e spicix simplicibus tcrctibns corijiata 

 s-picillis minimis coinpressis distichisaUnrnis. B-rowiie, p. 137. 



Panicle with simple branches ; flowers sessile, six together, the last barren, the 

 lowest sometimes awiied. 



This plant is called by Browne, the rising grass with ve?y slender flowef^spik/s, 

 which rises couinionly about two feet and a half, fnrnished witli a spreading panicle at 

 to^.'j whicji is generally composed of a good many delicate, slcjider, siivple, spikes. 



2. INDICUS. INDIAN. 



Gramen dacfylon procunihey^s, crassiim et viridius, cuhno reclinafo. 

 iSloane, v. 1, p. 111. ]Majic%, cultno comprcsso nodosa distichefo- 

 lialo atque rumoso. Browne, p. 137. 



Spilces digitate, linear; culm compressed, declined, knotty at the base ; leaves 

 alternate. 



This grass is called, /?H^f/e gmss, it has a fibrous root, from which spring very green 

 leaves and litaUcs, lying on every side on the surface of the ground. The stalk grows 

 about a foot long, the spikes at top are usually three or four. It grows by highw; v 

 Sides and low grounds, (and sometimes luxuriantlj' in the mountains,) and is esteemed 

 tiie best fattenuig and feeding grass for cattle. Bruised in the mouth and put on a 

 bleeding wound stops a hemorrhage. I saw a black once stop a bleeding artery with 

 it. Hiloane, 



See Grass. 



DOG-STONES. ORCHIS. 



Cl. 20, on. 1. Gynandria diandria. Nat. or. Orchidete. 



"This is so named from the form of the roots in many of the species. 



<7 EN. CHAR. Calyx wandering spathes ; spadix simple ; there is no pcrianfli ; the 

 corolla has five petals, three outer, two inner, converging upwards into a halniet; 

 nectary one-leafed, fastened to the receptacle by the lower side, between the di- 

 vision of the petals ; upper lip erect, very short ; lower lip large, spreading, wide ; 

 tube behind, iiorn-shaped, nodding; the stamens are two filaments, slender, 



short, on the pistil ; anthers ob-ovatp, erect, covered with a bilocular folding of 

 the upper lip of the nectary ; the pistil has an oblong, twisted, inferior germ ; 



the style fastened to the upper lip of the nectarj^, very short ; stigma compressed, 

 blunt ; the pericarp is an oblong capsule, one-celled, three-keeled, three-valved, - 

 opening three ways -under the keels, cohering at the top and base ; the seerls aio 



.fiumerous, very small, like saw-dust. Two species are indigenous to Jamaica. 



1. MONORRHIZA. ONE-BULBED. 



Erectum simplex, foliis sessihbus ab altera latere reciirrentibu^t snica 

 tenninali, nectariislongissimis, Browoe, p. 324. 



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