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6. RIGIDUJr. RIGID. 



Leaves petblecl, ovate, acute, serrateaoothed, rigid, rugged luulerneaih 5 

 stem sub-herbixeous. 



7. MOLLH. WOOLLY. 



Leaves petioled, cordate, acute, sub-serrute, pubescent; stem herbaceous^ 

 tonientose. 



8. VILLOSU.U. HAIRV. 



Co)ii/za friiticosa, cisti adore, florRius pallide fyrpureis summitaiihus 

 ramiilorum insidentibus, capituUs et scinine majorihus Sloanc, -v. 

 l,"p. 257, t. 15!, f. 2. 

 Leaves opposite, decussated, ovate, sub-serrate, beneath villose-tomentose^ 

 calyxes eight to fiitecu- flowered ; stem shrubby. ' . 



It rises six or seven feet high, has several stems a big as ones-'thnmb, covered witli a 

 reddish brown, ropy, or membranaceous, rough bark, and the branches go out one op- 

 posite to the oiber," or sometimes three together, thick set with leaves, standing on 

 short footstalks, about an inch long and half as broad, near the round base, where 

 broadest, the nerves running from the footstalk's end as from a cfjunnon centre, they 

 are somewhat rough, viscid, and smell like those of cistus. The tops are branched out 

 into several footstalks, sustaining several nSked headfi, like those dijacohea, of a pale 

 purple colour. After these follow -many small, light brown, oblong, canulaied pap- 

 _pous seeds. It grows in the Red Hills and Mount Diablo plentifully. Sloane. 



9. CORDIFOLIUM,. IIF.ART-LEAVED. 



^.eaves cordate, serrate, tomentose-hirsute underneath; petioles very shorty 

 corymbs sub-sessik ; calyxes squarrose; stem shrubby. 



10. MONTANUM. MOUNTAIN. 



'Fruticosum, assurgena, incaninn ; foUis ampUoribus, cordato acumiii" 

 atisy craiatisj fioribus conwsis. Browne, p. 313. 

 '"Leaves cordate, acute, tooth-letted, petioled, rugged, hirsute underneath j 

 corymbs much spreading ; stem shrubby. 

 The shrubby ash-coloured eupatoriinn, with opposite leaves and branches, is com- 

 i mon in most of the mountains of Jamaica, and rises generally to tlie height of seven or 

 eight feet. The flowers are'disposed pretty tiiick at the extremity of the branches. 



. JVie folio-wing have fifteen or morejloscides in tlic ailj/r. 



'II. ODORATUM. SM'EET-SCENTEn. 



Odoratinn hirsvtuyn ; foliis ot-afo acuminatis, basim versus erenatis^ 



oppOiitis ; Jloribus eomosis. Browne, p. 313. 



Stem a fathom in height, shrubby, branched, even ; leaves opposite, petioled, 



three-nerved, dotted ; flowers terminating, sub-corymbed, white ; seeds 



linear, slightly compressed, with a capillary egret. 



This weakly shrul by plant (called (7)c/i</?7i?r/; is very frequent in the lower hills of 



-Jamaica,' and "enerally observed to grow among other bushes, when it frequently casts 



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