325 HORT.US JAMAICEKSI-S. *goat 



GOAT FRIEND. AEGIPHILA. 



Cl. 4, OR. 1. TetrandriamovosT/nia. N.-\t. OR. Fit ices. 



Tliis generic name is denved iVom the Greek words for the English name, goats 

 being fond of it. 



Gen. char ^The calyx is a one-leafed, bell-shaped, four-toothed, perianth, loose, 

 very shprt, permanent; forolla one-petaled, salver- shaped, border quadritid; 

 the stamens are capillary filaments, inserted into the mouth of the tube, erect, 

 wiih roundish anthers ; the pistil has a roundish superior germ ; sty'le capillary, 

 deeply bifid; stigma siniple ; the pericarp is a roundish two-celled berry, sur-. 

 rounded witii the permanent calyx ; seed either in pan's or solitary. Three species 

 have been found in Jamaica. 



1. ELATA. LOFTY. 



Knoxia 2. Scandens, foliis cordatc-ovatis veJiesis, peduncidis midti- 

 partitis akiribus. Browne, p. HO, t. 3, f. 3. 



Leaves elliptic, acuminate, membranaceous; panicles ter:;:inating: cal^'xes 

 pubescent. . 



The segments of the calyx in this plant are coloured, and. being emarginnted, ap- 

 pear as if they wereoctotid. Dr. Browne's figure is not a good one, in uhicn the sta- 

 mens are too short by half. It is a cliiu-.,er, and rises to the height of six.or seven feet 

 ia the cooler naountains. 



2. FCETIDA. STIXKIKG. 



Leaves ovate- lanceolate, beneath hirsute, as are also the petioles; peduncles 

 axillary, solitary. 



3. TRIFIDA. TRIFID. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, snaooth ; peduncles axillary, trifid, crowded. 



GOAT RUE, "GALEGA. 



Cl. 17, OR. 4. Diadtlphia dccandria, Nat^ or. Papllionaces. 

 Gf.N. CHAR. Calvx a one-leafed perianth, tubular, short, half five-cleft; teeth SU" 

 bulate, nearly equal; corolla papilionaceous; stamens diadelphous filaments; 

 anthers oblong ; the pistil has an oblong slender germ ; style slender, shorter than 

 the germ, ascending ; the stigma a very small dot at the end ; the pericarp a very 

 long legume, compressed, acuminate, scored with oblong streaks, between the 

 seeds; seeds several, oblong, kidney-shaped. 



CI.VEREA. ASH-COLOURED. 



Herbacea sub-Ctuerea villom, joUolis oblojxgis pinnatis, spicis laxiori- 

 bus ad alas. Browne, p. 289 

 Legumes stiff, spreading ; racemes opposite to the leaves ; j^edicels solitary j 

 ieatlets villose underneath ; stipules lanctolate. 



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