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HORTUS JAMAICENSIS, 305 



Fronds lanceolate ; pinnas linear-lanceolate, gash-serrate, the lower serratures 



lai"gest. 



This plant J^vvartz thought a pa/j/prtf/mw7, from the seed heing arranged indistinct 



round spots. It does nrot grow ahove five or six inches high, having short twigs, set 



alternately, on which grew the pinnas. It grows in the inland parts by shady rivuletp. 



8, TRIFOLIATDM. THllEE-LEAVED. 



PhyUitis ramosa tnfida. Sloane, v. 1, p. 8?, t 45, f. 2. Simplex', 

 J'oliis lanceolatis irregidariler dispositis, superioribus singidaribus, 

 niferioribus gemiiiatis vel ternat.is. Browne, p. 



Leaves ternate, lanceolate. 

 This, from a blackish tuberous root, sends up five or six sialics aboiit a foot high, 

 Browne says two or three feet; the stalks are of a reddish colour, and cornered ; the 

 pinnffi arc set opposite to one another, three for the most part on a common reddish 

 footstalk, the middle one the longest, about an inch and a half long and a quar'er 

 tjroad in the middle, where broadest, .smooth, of a yellowish green colour, with reddish 

 ribs ; the bark of the frond is entirelj^ covered with ferruginous dust. It grows chiefly 

 in the mountains, and loves a moist rich soil ; and is comir;only found by the sides of 

 J^ivail^;. Sloane K Browne. 



With hipinnate fronds : 



P. EBENEUM. EBONY. 



'Filix nan ramosa wiviirta, caulc nigra, surculis raris, pinnitlis an-, 

 gustis, raris, hrcvii/us, aciiiis suhtus niveis. Sloane, v. I, p. 92, 

 t. 53, f. 1, and t. 7, f. 1. Fiisciim siwpliciter pinnatum, foliis 

 parvis iota basi adnatis, inferior ihus dtstinctis remntis hastatis aut-i- 

 tis vfl si'.hlobatiSf superioribus acuminatis contiguis integris. 

 Browne, p. 106. 



Pinnas sessile, oblong, sinuate, the uppermost shortest and quite entire. 

 Sloane and Browne made this a distinct plant. Swartz thought it only a young plant 

 of the following spesies ; which Sioane indeed observes it much resembled, butvtas 

 4)ujr time:* smaller. 



10. CALOMELANOS. FIXE-BLACK. 



J'ilix von ramosa major, canle nigro^ surculis raris, pinnvlis angv.f- 

 lis, rariS, longis, denla'tis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 92, t. 30, f. 1. 

 Erection rainusuiii, caule el raiiiis alro-nitcntihus, Jronde divisa.-~~ 

 Browne, p. 107. 

 Tinnas alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid. 



"Browne calls this the black stalked acrosticinn, from the colour of its stem. TTie 



pinnas are indented on tiie edges. It grows in moist, cool, shady places, in the lower 



.Jands, with pretty much div-ided branches, rising to the height of twenty or thirty 



iuches. The leaves are nimutely divided, and of a silver colour underneath. The 



wlioie plant has much the appearance of a species of maiden hair. 



11. SIMPLEX, SIMPLE. 



Fronds entire, smooth, petioled ; the barren ones lanceulate-acnminate, the 

 fertile ones linear-lanceolate. Sxv., 



FrondB 



