GRsNtRU HOnxUS JAMAICENS'IS, t<i 



2. ACAULIS. STEMLESS. 



Bcpuncido (iffviis anomala rasciilifera, folio ohloiXf^o, ^errato, florc 

 coccinco tubulmo, svmine viiniilo, ohloiigo, lultv. Sloane, v. I, p. 

 159, t. lO'J, f. 1. Juipcstrif: indivisa, foiiis oblongh rugosis sunvji-o 

 caule disposius, foiibus singularihus ad alas. Browne, p. 202. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, serrate, sub-petioletl, crowded at the end ; peduncles 

 three- flowered, shorter than the leaf. 



This has a woody rouni' strm, and a ciay-coloiired hark, with some furrows in i^, 

 'rising three or four inches high, having at the top very many oolong leaves, standing 

 very thick, without any order, on footstalks a quarter of an incii in length, covered 

 with a reddish wool, like moss. They are seven inches long, and an inch and a half 

 broad, near the farther end, whence they narrow to a point, and they also grow gra- 

 dually narrower to the footstalk. From tht; axils come out small peduncles, branched, 

 sustaining scarlet flowers an inch long, which are followed by a short, fungous, cor- 

 nered seed vessel, having no distinct cells, containing many small, fihlong, yellowish 

 seeds. Sloaiir. Browne calls it small tuft-ed gcs?feria, with scarlet flower.s ; and ob- 

 serves, that the stem is always simple, creeping along the rocks, and bearmg 

 a pretr; large tuft of leaves, at the extremity, with single flowers springing from each 

 axil, S variz describes the stem as very short at first, but, as it advances, becoming 

 frequently a foot ui length, and in this state covered with leaves and calyxes. Tiic 

 Icaves are r'.igged and wrinkled. The calyx is five-parted ; the parts linear and very 

 long : the liaib of tiie corolla is contracted and five-notched ; the filamenls are nearly 

 equal ; the anthers roundish and connected ; the germ is ovate ; the style longer than 

 the corolla ; the capsule is covered with the calyx, is five-cornered, grooved, and two- 

 celled. It grov/s in the cranies of rocks going to Sixteen- Mile- Walk. 



^. TOMENTOS.\. DOWNY. 



DigiicUsy folio oblongo serrato, ad foliorura alas florida. Sloane, v. 

 1, p. 162, t. 104-, f. 2. Erecta, foliis lanceolatis rugosis kirsutis, 

 pedur.culis laiigissimis I'amosis ex alls superioribxis. Brownfi, p. 26 1. 



Lcdvtfs ovrite-lanceolate, crenate, hirsute j peduncles lateral, very long, co- 

 rymbife:ous. 



This plant rises with a shrubby stalk the height of from four to six feet, and is de- 

 scribed as follows by Swartz : *' Stem upright, a yard in height, suffrutescent, round, 

 wrinkled, and hirsute. Leaves scattered towai-ds the end of tlie stalk, en very short 

 petioles, spreading, acuujinate, serrate, nerved, and netted-vemed, somewhat clammy, 

 softisli, tonientose-hirsute, hoary underneath ; stipule roundish, revolute, crenate-, 

 totnentose ; peduncles erect, round, hirsute, clammy, forming a sort of corymb at 

 top, with unequal sub-divided pedicels. Corolla irregular, sub-campanulate, gibbous 

 at the base and under the limb ; the two upper segments approximate, so as to form 

 one as it were that is bifid, arched in the middle, spotted on the inside with yellow and 

 dark purple ; tho three lateral ones are spreading, ovate, acute ; the lowest ventricose 

 ^inderneath ; the tube is spotted within. The two anterior filaments are longer than 

 the two others, and bowed in towards the pistil ; anthers convex ; style longer than 

 the corolla ; stigma cut half way transversely ; capsule crowned with the calyx, two- 

 celled." Tiiis is called by Browne the hairy erect gcsneria, with open flowers, who 



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