#REEJ| , HORTUS JAMAICENSIS." 34S 



34. VOMIFOUMF. 



Caulescent; leaves growing on the hulhs, ovate-aruminate, convex, channelled, 

 three-sided beneath ; scapes irooi the bosom of ilie leaves. S'w. 



The following have creeping stems and imbricate leaves : 



35. ECHINOCARPON. 



Stem compressed, decumbent, one-flowered ; leaves imbricate all rotmd, dis.. 

 tich, ovale ; capsules uuuicate. 

 Roots small, branched, fibrous ; stemS pendant, simple ; leaves alternate, numerous, 

 small, reflex, quite entire, sub-tomentose, stem-clasping ; from the axils of the 

 leaves flowers solitary, on very short peduncles. Corolla of a coral red colour, the 

 upper and the two lower petals of the same size and figure ; the two lateral one's longer 

 andwidtr; nectary small, three-lobed, the two upper lobes rounded and concave, the 

 lower emarginate; capsule red, ovate, warted. It grows on the trunks of old trees, 

 <?hich are sometimes covered with it. 



36. TRICHOCARPON. 



Stem compressed, round, rooting ; leaves imbricate all round, distich, linear ; 

 capsules tomentose. Sw. 



37. GLAUCU.M.S. GLAUCOUS. 



Stem compressed, almost upright, many-flowered ; leaves imbricate all round, 

 distich, broad-lanceolate, very smooth, glaucous beneath ; capsules naked. 

 Sii>. 



38. GRAMINOIDES. GRASS-LIKE. 



^^tein erect, compressed, many-flosvered ; leaves imbricate all round, distich, 

 MHiaotCf 'liuear ; peduncles longer. S'za. 



The following have one-leafed stems 



39. MICRANTH-UM. 



Stem one-leafed, leaf broad-lanceolate ; raceme very long, filiform ; flowers 

 pointing one way, roundish, six cornered, 



40. TRIGONIFLORUM. THREE-CORNERED FLOWERS. 



Stem one-leafed, leaf oblong-lanceolate ; raceme the length of the leaves ; 



flowers mostly pointing one vvay, three-cornered. 



This little parasitical plant is only about four inches high ; roots fibrous, whitish, 



JjumeroHs; leaf cauline, acute, quite entire, coriaceous, rigid, veinless, flat, shining, 



/two or three inches long. From the sinus of this come out successively three or four 



spadixes, racemed, simple, slender, erect, a little longer than the leaf, having about 



-ten flowers, and closed at the base with a few spathes, and small floral ones. Flowers 



small, directed all to the same side, without scent, oa short peduncles, ofadirtyyei* 



iow colour. Native of the mountain woods. Sw. 



41. RACENHFLORUM. RACEME-FLOWERED. 



-Stem one-leafed, leaf ovate ; raceme longer than the leaf; flowers pointing one 

 way ; inner petals ovate, i'w. 



y y 42. LfXUM, 



