342 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. tJtxm 



10. diffusuat. diffused. 



Leaves oblon, stem-tlasping ; stem ancipital ; panicle terminating, very muck 

 brandied, diflubod, li]) eiuire, acuminate. Sw. 



1 1 . MONTANUM. aiOONT.AIN. 



Leates lanceolate, fiat, recurved, spreading, sub-membranaceous ; raccmt 

 terminating, simple ; flowers pointing one way, lip tvifid. Sw. 



12. SF.RRULATUM. SERROL.vrE. 



Stems aggregate, siib-diphyllous ; leaves lanceolate, keeled, serrulate; raceme 

 terminating ; flowers distich. Sw. 



13. TERRETIFOUUM. . ,^ 



Leaves semi-cylindric ; stem one-flowered^, lip three-sided at the tip. Sw. 



14. GLOBOSKM. GLOBULAR. 



Leaves cylindric, channelled ; flowers terminating, sub-solitary, lip ovate, 

 acute ; capsules globular. 



Roots fibrous, round, ash-coloured, numerous, parasitical ; stems cespitose, quite 

 simple, two or three inches liigh, round, smuotti, leaty, ending in a spadix bearing 

 one-flower, seldom two, very seldom three ; whence there are very few spaihes. 

 Leaves awl-sliaped, acute, smooth, shining, somewhat rigid, sessile, alternate, aa 

 inch long. Flowers small, scarcel}- coloured, erect, of the same structure with the 

 Ihieare, except that the germ is twice as long as the petals ; capsule six- grooved, the 

 *ize of a small pea. Jacquin. 



The follozuing have creeping stems r 



15. SEKTULARIOIDES. 



Stem filiform, creeping, jointed; leaves lanceolate; peduncles one-flowered, 

 from radical sheaths. Sw. 



16. TESTiEFOLIUM. SHELL-LEAVED. 



Stem creeping ; leaves incumbent, elliptic, concave, convex, keeled ; flowej;^ 

 sessile under the leaves. 



The foUozi)mg are sfemless, with radical leaves : 



17. DNDULATOM. WAVED. 



Viscum radice bulbosa majus et clatius, delphinii flore, ferrugineo 

 guttato. Sloane, v. 1, p. 250, t. 148, f. 1. Parasiticum, j'oliis 

 oblongis radicaiibus macu/atis, stapo assurgenti Intigo sarmentoso 

 nudo ad apicem ramoso, fioribus miscellis. Browne, p. 326. 



Leaves elliptic, acute ; scape sarmentose, verj' much branched ; petals ovate, 

 clawed, obtuse ; lip dilated, emarginate, waved. 



Tills is also parasitical, and the largest of the kind. Roots large ; leaves manj-, long, 

 .farrow, smooth, dark green, somewhat like those of the common white liliy. Stalk 

 found, tough, brown, crooked, six feet high, with joints at every eight or nine inches 

 distance, where are branches staudinj^ straight outf mth several flowers with peduncles 



