S?<^ H0RTUS JAMAICENSIS. j>',wiiP 



Ciy. cnAK.-T-Male. flower : Calyx four- leaved, leaflets roumlislij conravc, obtuse; 

 there are no petals ; the nectary in the centre of liie flower, cnp-shaped, entire, 

 narrower below, very small ; the stamens are four awl-shapetl filjiments, len!jth 

 of the calyx, spreading, each within eacii calyx leaf; a^nhers two-celled. The 

 female flower : Calyx a two-valved ovate jjcrianth, concave, ei-ect, permanent ; 

 there is no corolla ; the pistil lias an ovate germ, no style, villose stigma ; there 

 is no pericarp ; the c^yx converguig ; seed ons, ovate, blunt, compressed, shin- 

 ing. Eighteen spe;ties of this genns have been discovered in Jamaica, the follow- 

 ingj and those placed under the name nettle, 



GRANDIFOLIA., LARGE- LEAFED. 



Urtica iners 7-acemosa suhatua, folio nerroso. Sloane, v. 1, p. 124, 

 t. S3, f. 2. Erecta Juliis ovato-acuminatistrineri-iis nitidis, race- 

 mis coitipTessis. Browne, p. 337. 



Leaves opposite, ovate ; stipules cordate, updiiuded ; racemes panicled, length 

 of the leaves. 



From a small stj-ingy, brown, root springs a, cornered green stalk ; the stem is a foot 

 and four inches lurh, and its leaves a span in length ; they are rough, a little indented 

 about the edges, with three ribs running from the end of the footstalk through the leaf, 

 with several transverse ones.. The flowers are in racemes, larger and smaller, brown- 

 ish, white, green, and red, very small, of a pleasnig figure. It grows in shady moist 

 places, and flowers in the middle of summer. Browne says it js common in all the- 

 cooler gravelly banks of the higher hills. 



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This plant is so called because 'it something resembles the European dwarf-elder 

 being a short plant, with a round jointed stalk and a reddish fruit ; but its leaves are 

 niuch like the. large English nettle, 'vjth large nenes or veiiis. It delights in shady 

 i;>laces. A colonel, who had lived many years in Jamaica, artirmed to me, that it was 

 a certain cure for the dropsy, purging ofl the water gently by urine and stools, by giv 

 jDg its juice or strong decoction. Barham, p. 55. 



See Nf.ttles. 



DWARF PIMPERNEL. ANAGALLIS. 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandiiamonogpiia. Nat. or. Rotacete. 



G.EN. CHAR. Calyx a five-parted perianth ; corolla wheel-shaped, border five- 

 parted; stamens erect; filaments, with simple anthers; the pistil has a globose 

 germ, a filiform style, and capitate stigma; the pericarp a globose one-celled 

 capsule, opening transversely; seeds very many, angular; the receptacle gloa. 

 Lose, very large. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



P'JMILA. D\VAR?. ' 



Stem erect ; leaves roundish, acute, sessile. 

 This species of pimpernel is an annual plant, and was discoveted in Jaraaioa by 



EAE. 



