mT..:i, nORTUS JAMaTCK^'SIS, di* 



GARDF.N BALSAM. IMPATIEN'S.- 



Cl. 19, on. 6. Si/PgcnesHt monoga-niia. N.\T. or. Cori/i!it!c.^, 



Tiiis was so named on accoiiiit of its fruit being impatient, and bursting open on tkfi 

 least touch. 



Genvchar. Calyx a t'TO-i-eavcd perianrii ; errolla iive-petaled, irreirnlar, with a 

 cowled nectary, whose base ends in a rail or spur ; stamens short, antliers connate ; 

 the pistil has an ovate-acuminate germ, no style, and a simple; stigma ; the peii- 

 carp is one-celled, live-valved, superior, springing open ctastically, the vaivc3 

 rolling spirally ; seeds several, roundish, fixed to a columnar receptacle. One 

 species of-this gonus has been introduced, and grows plentifully in Jamaica. 



BALSAMINA. BALSA.M. 



Peduncles one- flowered, aggregate; leares lanceolate, tks upper onas alter.- - 

 nate ; nectary shorter than the tlawer. 



Tt'hath a fibrous root, an upright,thick, succulent stalk, Irranching all around, a foot- 

 and a half or two feet high ; with long spear-shaped sawed leaves, the upper ones al- 

 ternate ; and fronx the joints of the stuik and branches clusters of short footstalks, each 

 sustaining one large irregular flower, of different colours in the varieties ; which are 

 succeeded hj capsules that hursfcopen and dart forth their seeds with gi'eat velocity," 

 when touched, whence they are often called iour/i me not. The valves twist spirallj-, 

 and contain roundish seeds fixed to a column. It is easily propagated from the seedsj 

 and from its great variety of beautiful colours, if tastefully intermingled, forms a great 

 ornament to the garden. It is a native of the fJa^t Indies, and was brought to Jamaica 

 many years ago, where it thrives well, and has been generally cultivated on account o? 

 i<& beauty. The seeds grow very readily. 



See JusTK'iA BalsaMj 

 Garden Cress See Pepper Gbas3. 



GAHLIC. ALLTU]\r. 



Cl. S, or. 1. Ilexandna monogynla. 'NaT. or^.tSpathacea^ 

 <Jen. char. See Eschalot, p. 28+. 



SATIVUJr, CULTIVATED. 



"Bull) compound ; stamens three-cusped. 



This well known plant thrives extremely well in Jamaica, thou^li a native ofEuropw* 

 It-.has a bulbous root, of an irregularly roundish shape, with several fibres at the bot-- 

 tom ; each root is composed of a number of lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, in- 

 closed in one common membranous coat, and easily sepera!)le from one another. All' 

 the pans of the plant, but more especially the root?, have an acrimonious, and almost-' 

 caustic, taste, wivh a strong offensive smell. 



This pungent root, warms and stimulates the solids, and attenuates tennciousjuire.': ;- 

 &* vviiicii it is well adapted, on account of its being very penetrating ; iiiso.JUch th t, 



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