fS4 IIORTUS JATyIAICENSIS. erithalis 



3. ANGirSTlFOLIlN. SMAI.L-I.EAVF.n. 



CoTiT/za inodoia, ftelcnii folio, iiitc^ro, dino, an,T!f.<:fo, ohlongo, capi- 

 / tulU in hileribus rampruin conglonieratis. Slouae, v. 1, p. 266, 



t. 14S, f. 4. 



Ftem-leaves liiiear-Ianceolale, entire, villose ; flowers glomerate, in sessile and 

 peJuncled bundles ; stem .siinple. 



The root is large, oblong, whence rises a single, round, striated, hollow, stalk, 

 about two feet higli, having sessile leaves set on it alternately ; their lower part, 

 whereby they are joined to the staiU, having a membrane inclosing it ; they are about 

 five inches long, and halt an inch broad near the top wltere broadest, ends round, are 

 of a pale gretn colour and wrinkled. Towards the toj) come out the flowers in a spike, 

 sessile, inclosed in an involucre of a few dry brown membranes, which arc lollovved 

 by small chanDeiled seeds, having much pappus on them. i. found it about Mount 

 Diablo very plentifully. Hloane. 



Eli.isia See Duranta. 

 Et^M, Spanish See Princewood. 

 English Plantain See^ Plantain. 

 EfUPHiA See Besleria, * 



No English Name. ERITHALIS. 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandriamonogynia. Nat. OR. Rubiace^e, 

 This name is derived from a Greek word signifying full of verdure. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed, five or ten toothed, pitcher-shaped, perianth ; 

 corolla monopetalous, five-parted or five-petaled, with the divisions bent back ; 

 stamens from five to ten ; anthers oblong ; the pistil has an inferior roundish germ, 

 filiform style, and sliarp bifid stigma ; the pericarp a globose berry, crowned, ten- 

 celled, slightly ten-grooved ; seeds small, in es^ch cell one. One species is a na- 

 tive of Jamaica. 



PRUTICOSA. SHRUBBY. 



Fniticulom foliis obovatis crassis nitidis oppositis, pedunculis ramoiis 

 ad alas supenoves. Browne, p. 165, t. 17, f. 3. 

 Leaves opposite ; corymbs compound. 



Browne mentions two species of this plant, which are thought to be only varieties, 

 the slirubhy erithalis, and the arborescent erithalis, the latter, he says, has the flowers 

 in racemes, and the leaves entire and veined. He found both about the north eas,t 

 parts of the island ; the former growing among the cliffs that lie to the west of Port 

 Antonij, and seldom rises above two or three feet ; the other about Manchioneal Bay, 

 wiicre it grows to the height of eight or ten feet. Swartz observes that the berries are 

 black, a, id the seeds about nine. Jacquin says the flowers are white, and mostly six 

 stiuiiened, and the calyx and corolla si:? cleft ; smelUng like -common syringa. 



ErnoDe.\ See SpurgEj bi'anched. 



