3$2 IIOIITUS JAMA I GEN SIS. iwvst 



in the bottom of the calvx. Female calyx sessile, cylindrical, entire; cajjsule 

 subulate, long, tivo-valr-ed, 



CRISPUS. CURLED. 



Nivetis, varie lobatus ct corniridaliis, lobis ajigusiis inlegrh.-^- 

 Brpvyne, p. 86. 

 Frond sinuate and jagged,, undulate, curled on the margin, not doited< 

 This beautiful little plant isXrequent enCngb in the mountains of New Liguanea,. 

 and receives much additional elegance from those slender and hollow conic apjH'tidiccs 

 tltat r.ise from the margin of the leaves, or lobes, in every part. The seed capsules . 

 secta raised from the body 'of the leaf; they are of a compressed forai, and open into^ 

 two receding spiral valves.' Browne, 



Horn Wokt See Morass Weed*. 



HORSE BEAN. DOLICHOS,. 



Ci.. 17, OR. 4. Diadelphia decandria. Isat._os. Papilionacets.. 

 Gen. CHAB,. A^'t'd Cat-Claws, /7. 166. 



ENSIFORMIS. SVVOr.D-SHAPED.' 



Phaseohwi maximus, siliqua ensiformi jiervis insignita, et semine- 

 albo, viembroiido inchiso. " Sloane, v. 1, p. 177, t. 114, f. 1, 2, 3,' 

 Sub-ercctus major, siliqiiis ?7ia.z'vni.< ahlongis glahris, satura altera, 

 mrvo majori utrinque insignita. Browne, p. 291.. 



tegumes gladiate, three-keeled at the back ; seeds arilled. 

 The stem of this is between upright and cli'ml>ing, seldom rising above three or four 

 feet, though it emits slender, delicate shoots, which run much further. The leaves^, 

 which are always three together, and flowers, come o^it at every inch distance, stand- 

 ing on a two inches long footstalk, which has a swelling near the stem.- The flowers 

 stand several togethcT on tlie sam peduncle ; they are close, and of a blueish purple 

 coibur ; after which follows the large falcated legume, from ten to fourteen inclies in. 

 length, and generally containing ten or eleven seeds, which are white, with a salfron 

 coloured hile, and thought of a deleterious nature. The two upper teeth of the calyx, 

 large ovate, bent back by the banner; the three under very small, sharp pointed,^ 

 tootk-like. Sloane says they fatten ho^gs. 



-Stf Cat-Cl.\ws CowiTcn a?!(f Me following article.. ; 



HORSE OR OX-EYE BEAN. DOLICHOS. 



Cl. IX, OR. 4. Diadelphia decaiidria. Nat. or. Papilionacete^. 

 Gen. CHAR. <y Cat- Claws, //. IGO. 



UlvEKS. STINGING. 



Pliaseolus BrasilianKs/rufeseens, lobis villosis, pungentibus niaximui^ 



Sloaiiej, 



