571 HORT'JS JAMAICENSIS. hoixiT 



vfscoQS, seeds, echinated round the top, but snjootli below. Barlmm says this is a 

 cooling and uioistening lierb, which he calls valerian. It iias generally three slaiueni 

 in the tiowers. 



3. HIR9UTA. SHAGGY, 



Stem diffused, pubescent; leaves ovate, lepand. * 

 This sends out many trailing liaiiy stalks, which divides into smaller branches. At 

 the axils come out naked peduncles, sustaining small close' heads of scarlet flowers, 

 which are very hjaacious, seldom standing more thiin half a day before their petak 

 drop ; they are succeeded by short oblong seeds. 



HOLLY OR SAGE-ROSE. TURNERA. 



Cl. 5, OR. 3. Penta^ulvia trigynia. Nat. or. Cohimniferre. 

 This was so named i.i memory of William Turner, M. D. author of an Herbal, r.ia 



1551. 



Gen. CHR. Calyx a one-leafedperianth,funriel-forrii, deciduous, border erect, 

 fjve-'paited ; the corolla fi^'e petals, ob-cordate, acuminate, fiat, -from upriglit 

 spreading, with narrow claws, inserted into the calyx ; the stamens are five fila- 

 ments, awl-shape I, shorter than thecorolla, inserted into the tube of the calyx, 

 wiin acuminate erect anthers ; the pistil has a conical germ ; three filiform styles, 

 the length of the stamens, with capiilaceous multifid stigmas; the pericarp is an 

 o^ate capsule, one-celled, three valved ; receptacles annexed to the valves longi- 

 tudinally, linear; seeds numerous, -oblong, obtuse. Three species are natives ,of 

 ^.Jamaica. 



5. ULMIfOLU. ELM-LEAVED. 



^isfiia .urtic/e folio, flore lufeo, vnsrulis ttigonis. Sloane, v. 1, =p. 

 202, t. 127, f. 4, 5. E petiolis Jlorens, foliis serratis. Browive, 

 p 189. 



Tiowers sessile, petiolary ; leaves biglandular at the base. 



Stem shrubbi , eight or ten feet high, semling out branches on every side the whole 

 vlength. Leaves oyate-lanceolate, tvyo inches and a half long, and an inch p^nd a half 

 -broad, r- ugh on their upper side, and of a lucid green, their under side has many 

 strong veins, and of a lighter green, the edges are serrate ; the flowers sit close upon 

 the footstalks .of .the leaves, navjjig two pretty large leafy appendices to the calyx ; 

 they are orange coloured, and very large. The capsule is superior, ovate, indistinctly 

 three-cornered, pubescent, opening from the top to the nnddle in three parts. Re- 

 ceptacle three raised hues, inscribed longitudinally on the inr<er wall of the capsule, 

 ac'ompanied by very numerons, short, umbiHcal chords ; seeds slightly curved inwards, 

 attenuated towards the nave!, scored with many minute excavations in rows, chesm.it 

 brown ; anl nalveJ, tongue-shaped, membranaceous, thin, whitish, lying on the con- 

 cave part of the seed, free on ali sides, inserted into the navel. (iartncr. This grows 

 in great ahun lance in the Red Hills, and vicinity of Spanish Town, where it seldom 

 rises aoove four or five feet, with a shrubby weakly stalk, adorned ^vith a few serrated 



oval 



