IflPPOCRATEA HORTUS JAMAICENSrS. ?73 



gonal, grboved ; seeds small, obking, acuminate. It grows in tvet coppic* 

 mountains, is not parasitical, but ci-eeping among eld mossy wood j fiowerin 



ippices 6n the 

 veriu'^ in sum- 

 mer. i^'. 



C. TETRAKDEA. rniTR-STAMENEI};> 



Corollas four-cleft, four-slamciied, clefts ovate ; lefives oB-ovate. 



This is a slir.ub, and has a sixth and a fiftJi part less in the fructjiicaiioii than the pr^^- 

 ceding sort. 



Nb EiigUshNamer. HIPPO CHATEAV 



Cl. 3, OR. 1. Triandritf monogyma. Nat. Ori. Jcera.. > 

 This is named after the celebrated Hippoci ates. . 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-^leafed hve-parted perianth; corolla five-pe'^ated ; sta.> 

 mens three filanienis, >v;rii roundish antliers; tie pisiiJ has a roijudish gerin^ 

 three-sided style, anii blunt stigir.ii i the }>ericarp is Liiree capsules,, ob-cordate, 

 or elliptic, compresed, large, with two-valved cells; valves keeled and com- 

 pressed ; seeds in fives or sixes, oblong, with a mtmbranaceons wing, at first soft, 

 tut hardcjiing like-nuts, witli oblong kiirccls. . Oiie.sptxiei is a native of Jamaica, 



VOLUBILIS.-. TWINING. .. 



TJaccmes cor}-nibed ; leaves ovate-Isn-ceolate, serrate. 



Branches sub-divided, bent down,- with opposite, rigid, arched, Spreading bran^b- 

 lets; leaves petioled, opposite, blunt, stifiish, mooili ; )uce;ii.-s tiirminatmp- ,,:ux 

 opposite racemeiets ; .flo'^ era terminating, sub-se.ssile, crowded, greenish vviiite, mi- 

 nute; capsules an inch i'jog ; seeds cc'-'upressel, dry Sw. 



The following descripuou of this plant is eitractc-I from the manuscript of Mr. An- 

 thony Roi>inson : . 



" 111 going.dov/n Cabaritta River, on the right hand, I met with this rare shrub ; 

 the stem .was round, scanuent, and iigmousj of a reddish brown colour, with a \-bitisii- 

 cast ; it was brittle, smooth, and jointed ; from tiie joints it sent forth side branches, 

 on which grew the leaves by pans, and the capsules by three's for the most part, andl 

 sometimes one oy two in a place ; by the manner of their growing',, I judge tiiat three 

 of these capsules succeed each flower ; the largest were' about un inch and a bu'f in 

 length, and one andiwo-lenths in breadth; they vere comj)rcssed,, ovate, thinnesfe 

 on their sides,^ and sometimes emarg'.nated, of a thin- foliaccous substance, and deco- 

 rated wdth many branched veins> rising from the base, and ruiTning in an oblique man-- 

 ner to the margins of soiue,.. and in others to the summit of the c ipsule. Tlis capsule 

 splits lengthwHVs into two valves, in the manner of the logwootl capsule, and ougiit to 

 }StHercneO.(i. depressed, rather than a row/)? wica', capsule. It contams only one cell, 

 in which are, for the most part, two ovate seeds, each adhering to ll.- base of the 

 valve to a small receptacle, and have a margin running down their interior parts end- 

 ing in a narrow tail or appendicle at the base. The longest leaves are four inches, and 

 one and three-quarters broad, not unlike a bay-leaf in form, of a thin tough substancej 

 '^iaia edged, deep green,, and pciibitej above; pale yellowish green beucath, sup- 



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