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Gen. char. Calyx Involucre of three broad sharp leaflets, many flowered, larcro, 

 pertnauent, witliout on umbel ; partial perianth four-ilowereil, oblontj, imbricate ; 

 corolla conipoimcl, tubular, hermaphrodite, coroilets ; stamens five short capillary 

 filaments ; anthers c} lindric ; the pistil has an ovate germ, filiform style, two 

 stigmas; therejs no pericarp, the calyx unchanged; seeds solitary, compressed; 

 down brisitle-form j receptacle naked. Three species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. SCABER. ROUGH. 



Scahiosa affinis anomala sylvatica, enuhe folio\ singulis flosculix alhts 

 in eodem C'jpitulo perianthea habcnlihis- semivc pappnso. Sloane, 

 V. 1, p. 263, t. ISG, f. 1, 2. E rectus ; foliis obtongo ov.itis rugosis 



' afque serratis, Jloralibm coyYliformilms ternaiis ; capitulis remolis 

 terminalibus. Browne, p. 312. 



Leaves oblong, scabrous. 

 The stem is round, sti-iated, and roiigh, rising three or four feet ; the leaves have 

 lialf inch long footstalks, they are large, rough, or corrugated,. and woolly underneathj - 

 and become smaller towards the top. It is adorned with a great number of flowers, . 

 gathered into pretty large heads, at the extremities of the'branriies, supported by 

 hoary inch-long footstalks.. The seeds are of an oblong form, and crowned each with , 

 five little bristles. The general footstalks are very long, and terminate the branches ; 

 but, ar. the separations of them, .may always be observed a smaller head growing' to the 

 stem, without any supporter. . It grows in the woods of Jamaica yery plentifully, and 

 is a good vulnerary. V The leaves are frcqaentiy used instead, of. eardimsbenedictus in- 

 the Frenckislands. Sloane ( Browne. 



2. SPtCATL'S. SPiKED. 



Cdnyza major i'nodora, keremi folio integro siceo et dicro, cirfioriifiore 

 alho e ramoruiih lateribiis e.ieunte. .Sloane, v. I, p. 2.56, t.'lrO, f, 

 3, 4'^ Erectus hirsutus ; foliis ivfcrioribus ovatis, utrinqiie pro- 

 ductis, JloraUbus oblongis ; capitulis alar ib us. Browne, p. '311. 



Lefaves ovate-lanceolate, serratCj scabrous; hundtes of flowers sessile, lateral j 

 stem branched. 



At first coming up it has many leaves five inches long, and an inch and a half where 

 broadest ; beginning very narrov/, they continue so for Kv.'o inches, and end in a round 

 point ; they are hard, smooth, dark green, and indented about the edges. From 

 among these a round, strong, green stall" rises, four feet high, with an embracing 

 leaf at each joint ; it has branches towards the top, standing round at every joliit, di- 

 vided into others which are beset with smaller leaves. From the axils of these come - 

 out the white flow'ers, without any peduncle, standing in small greets leaves. It grew 

 on the banksof the Rio Cobre and at Guanaboa. The stalks aiidleaves being hard are 

 made use of for broom to sweep house.s. Sloane. Browne calls it the smaller ereci 

 elephantopiis, vitii the flowers <lisposed at the al;e of the upper leaves, and says it is 

 roinmon in most parts "f Jutnaica, growing chiefly in oi")Cn gravelly lands, i-ising to the 

 height of fifteen or twenty inches, or nnore. The common receptacles of the flo'vors 

 rise singly from the a.vils of the upper leaves, and seem disposed in the form of a spike;, 

 but there are seldom more than four florets m each, The seeds are crowned with foiu' 

 Jtfcde bristles. Brozaiie. 



