302 aORTUS JAMAICENSrS. POrK 



excellent in ol'structions of the spleen. A salt rmule of the leaves is an excellent; re- 

 jricd^ agauist ulcers and Ciirious. bones, being dryiiiL^-. Sloane, 



4. KUFUM. REDDISH. 



Fillx minor, riiffa hnwgineiota obducla in pinnae tanfinn dixis'f, ra-^ 

 ras, von cremttas, subnitundus. Sloane, v. i, p. 87, t. 45, f. l. 

 Simplex villosum, foliis laticeolato-ovnlis levissime crcnatls, lineis 

 JruitifcaUonis dcusissimt: silis. Browne, p. 93. 

 PInnas oblong-ovate, quiie entire, pubescent. 



Tills grows eighteen or twenty inches in height ; stalk roand, covered with, ferru- 

 ginous liair, leafy alaioit from the root ; each pinna about an inch loag, -md an iHcii. 

 distant from each other, on small footstalks,, they are about half an inch broad at the 

 base, whence they decrease to the end, which is round, all covered over with a rusty 

 wooiiv hair. Sloane. Browne calls it the simple hairy asj/leniutn, wiiich seems to like 

 a sandy soil ; he found it in Liguanea. 



5. SORUlfOLlUM. SORBUS-I,EAVED. 



F'ilix major scmtdcns in pinnas tanttnn divisa oblovgas lulasque non 

 creiKitas. Sloane, v. 1, p. 83, t. 38. 



Pinnas oblong-ovate, entire, serrate,, acute ; stipes scaly. 

 This has a crooked stalk, of a dark brown colour, cornered, sometimes smooth, at 

 other times covered with a ferruginous hairy moss, as big as the little finger, sending- 

 out on each side many inch long clavicles or roots, sticking to the barks of tgces, by 

 which it rises twciity or thirty feet. These sralks, rooting all the wav, send out leaves 

 at about two inches distance, a foot and a half long, having alternate pinnas, set on the 

 middle rib at hnlf an inch distance from one another, they are three inches long and. 

 three quarters of an inch broad in the middle^ where broadest ; they are thin, smooth,," 

 and of a pale green colour. The juice, mixed with oil, ginger, and pepper,^ is sai<v 

 to cure the choleric head-ach, when anointed with it. Stoane. 



6. M.\RGIN.\Ti/M. MARGINEDi i- 



jrilir major in jiinnas tantuvi divisa, oblongas, angusfasqtie, non 

 crenaias. Sloane, v. 1, p. 84, t. 40. 



Pinnas oblongj quite entire, waved, acuminate ; stipe naked. 



This is thought to be the same with ptcris grand iflora se Female Ferns, p. 89. 

 Sloane describes it as follows : 



Stalk sometimes blackish, sometimes brown, rising two feet high, and havinsr pinnje 

 at about nine inches from the ground, sometimes opposite, and sometimes alternate, 

 at plx)Ut three quarters of an inch distance from each other, four inches long and half 

 an inch broad in the middle, ending in a narrow point; dark green above, wholly co- 

 vered with ferrugitwus moss below. It grew very plentifully on the Rio d'Oio, in St, 

 Thomas in the Vale, and in St. Mary's. Sloane. 



7. SANCTUM. HOLY. 



- Fiiicida non ramosaminima, surcvlis crebris, pinmdis angustissimi.-;, 

 raris. Sloane. v. 1, p. 91, t 4.9, f. 2. Ereciuni minivmm iim~ 

 jilez, /oliolis angustis crcnaiis id lobatisi Browne, p. 105. 



Fronds 



