303. HORTUS JAMAICENSIS.- nnfzn 



joints, round! ;h, smooth j sce^s roimtUsh, compressed. Native of Jamaica in the dry 

 sarjt- > Tiarts. S:r. 



Bciidcs the above indigenous apeciesj the following exotics have been i-itroduceil, , 

 anc' uo in tile Hurtus Eastcnsis ; the gt/rans,. or moving plant; tlie i^'cai^eticitm ; the. 

 triuuetriivi ; the graviintum i the onobrychis, whici) is-ciiiled 5'^. -Ft^/w; and is niucl>., 

 cultivated m Europe for feeding cattle; and tlie vespertUion{s,xn.iicha\hi\nedior its, 

 beauty, as, in a gentle breeze, the leaves, a. liuy move, resemble so many variegated , 

 butter flii'S r but tii.e most remarkable is tiie first or niovinff pLint, the singular motion , 

 CI whlcii is described as foiJorts in Lmneus's Siippl''ment : "This is a woneierful plnnt, , 

 on account of its voluntary motion, which is net occasioned by any to'jcli, irrit.aion, . 

 or moveni^ent.in the air, as in minicsa, oxalis, and dioncva ^ por is it so evanescent as ,. 

 in au;orplui. No sooner had the plants raised from seed acqnired thejr ternate leaves, 

 than they began to be in motion this way and that ; this movement ciid not cease during 

 the wliole coarse of their vegetation, nor were they observant of an\- time, order, or 

 direction ; one ieaiiet frequently revolved, while the. other on tlie same peiiide was . 

 quiescent ; sometimes a few leaflets only were in motion, then almo: t iiil of them would 

 be in movement at ORce ; the whole plant was \ery seldom agitateii, and that only dur- 

 intr the first year. It continued. to move in the stove during the second year of its . 

 growth, and was not at rest even in winter." It is a native of the East Indies, called . 

 there burram c/iandcl/',. imd grbvifs and flowers luxuriantly in Jamaica. Swartz ob- 

 served the motion sometimes cease entireh-. In a hot day it was imnioTeabie, being, - 

 agitated only in the. evening, and that slowly. 



FRENCH MARYGOLD. PECTIS. 



Cl. 10, OR. 2. Syngc7icsia polT/gamia siiperflua. Nat. OR. Covjposifce, 



Gen. cilAR.^Calyx five-leaved, cylindric ; corolla rayed; corollets hermaphrodite 

 in the disk ; females live in the ray ; corolla of the iiermaphrodite funnel-form, . 

 five-cleft; of the female ligulate-ovate ; stamens, in the hermtiphvodites, five 

 short filaments, with cylindric tubular anthers ; the pistil in herraaphrodiles has a , 

 linear germ, filiform style, bifid stigma ; in the females, a linear germ, filiform 

 style, and two revolute stigmas ; there is no pericarp, tlie calyx unchanged, spread- 

 intr ; seeds in the hermaphrodite solitary, linear; down with two or three spread- 

 ing awns ; in the females very like the other ; receptacle naked. One species is, 

 a. native of Jamaica. 



LIKirOLIA. I,INEAR-LEAVED. 



Ilieraciumfruticosum, angustissimis gramineisfoliis, rapitul;s pan-i's. 

 Sloane, v. 1, n. 255, t. 150, f. 1. Minor, cuule subdiviso ctiffuso^ 

 foliis linearibusintegris.- Browne, p. 319. 



Leaves linear, quite entire, even on both sides. 



This plant is common in most of the sugar colonies. The common calyx is composed 

 of five, six, or seven narrow equal scales, joined together in a cylindric tube, contain- 

 ing so many female ligulate florets, disposed very orderly round the margin, ana a feil" 



bermaphrodite* 



