EBONY HORTUS JAMAICENSTS. sn 



EAR-WORT. HEDYOTIS. 



Cl. 4, OR \.-r-Tetrandn'amo7iogi/nia. Nat. or. Stellat'v. 



This generic name is derived from tv;o Greek words sigtuiying sweet and an ear^ 

 ftome of tlie species being reputed a specific in deafness. - 



Gen. chab. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, fonr-parted, superior, permanent ; 

 parts linear, sharp; cocolla one-petaled, funnel-shaped, a little longer than the 

 calyx, half four-cleft ; the stamens are four filaments, subulate, inserted at the 

 sinuses of the corolla, wita roundish anthers ; the pistil has a roundish inferior 

 germ, a filiform st\le, the length ui' the stamens ; stigmas two, thickish ; the pe- 

 ricarp is a twin-glubular capsule, two-pelled, inferior; seeds man}-, angular. 

 One speciesis a. native of Jamaica. 



RUPESTRIS. 



Tkynittlea marithna erica foliis, yurcuiis tinniuis it tomenlosisi-^ J 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 94, t. 202, f. !. 



Leaves four-faced, awl-shaped, channelled ; flowers sessile^ axillary ; corollas 

 m villose, -witli a crooked tube. 



This shrub rises from three to five feet higiij^'having woody diffused branches, pro- 

 CTtn^hentat the base, otherwise erect, they are generally covered with remnants of the 

 footstalks of the leaves, which drop off and are usually reddish, with v/ool of a whuisii 

 colour, between them, lying like scales over one another. The leaves grow at the tops- 

 of the twigs, they are short,^ linear, fleshy, convex, numerous, of a dirty green co- 

 lour, like the leaves of htjath^ and of a siiltish- biting t-isto. The petioles are united 

 <D each side by a membrane embracing the branch, and blunt with a point. The flov,- 

 ers are yellow, without scent, sessile, axillary-, solitary ; the germ and part of the co- 

 jolla is concealed within the sinus of the leaf; there is a single stipule on each side cf 

 the oerm, of the sam..e length and form v\'ith the calycine leaflet, it grows on recks oa.- ^ 

 the sea coast.-^iSloap.e 6C Jacquin^ 



EBONY, JAMAICA. AMER.TMNUM. 



Cl. \1, 0R4. Diadelphia decandria. NaT. or. Papilmiacece. 



Browne named tVis avierinmon, vi;hich is the Greek word for any thing void of carej, . 

 oxjn. a state of security. 



Gen. char. Cal3K a one-loafed perianth, tube bell-shaped, five-toothed, teeth 

 sharp; corolla papilionaceous, the standard has an oblong claw, roundish, heart- 

 sliaped, expanding, convex ; wings lanceolate, shorter than the standard, keel 

 short ; the stamens are ten conjoined hlamnnts, with roundish anthers ; the pistil 

 has a pedicclled germ, oblong, compressed-leafy, varicose, with lateral veins, 

 jtithin woody, not gaping, cells disposed longitudinally within ; seeds sohtnry, 

 Icidney-shaped, thicker at the ba^se,. appendicecl at the top. There are t-.i spe-^ - 

 ciesj both t'ouiid in Jamaica;, 



I. BROWUfiL.;. 



