c^awAiCA HORTUS JAMAICENSI9, 3!5 



their extremity, of a thick texture, very smooth on their upper surface, and on their 

 under of a lucid gold colour. The fiuit is round and red. It was found in Jamaica by 

 Dr. Houston, 



See Nettles awtiJ N-ettle-Thee. 



Jamaica Pepper See Pimenta. 

 Jamaica Plum Sec Spanish Plum. 



JAMAICA SALOP. LIMODORUM. 



Cl. 20, OR. 1. Gynandria clianJria. Nat. OR. 0)xhidc^. 

 Gen. char. Calyx vague spathes, spadix simple, no perianth ; the corolla has ^ve 

 petals, ovate-oblong, about equal, spreading, the superior ones converging ; 

 nectary one-leafed, concave, footstalked, within the lowest petal, the length of 

 the petals ; the stamens are two, bearing a filament with au oblong ascending body, 

 the length of the corolla ; with two anthers, ovate, looking forwards ; the pistil 

 has a columnar germ, the length of the corolla, inferior, with a funnel-forni 

 stigma ; the pericarp a colunniar three-valved capsule, one-celled, gaping at the 

 corners; seeds numerous, Uke saw-dust. Swartz observes tliat this genus i* 

 scarcely different from serapias, except in the intlGrescence or scape. Foiuf 

 species have been found in Jamaica. 



1 . ALTUjr. TALL. 



FoViis lira/ is lovgissiinis, scapo jlorlfero partiali, sub-sqiiamoso. 

 Browne, p.. 325. 



Flowers beardless ; spikes sub-panlcled. 

 "Bulb tubercled, roundish, of a fleshy and fibrous siibstance, covered with a coriace- 

 ous, shining skin, and having some tomentose white fibres underneath. Leaves from 

 . the bulb, vernal, two feet long, broad-lanceolate, longitudinally folded at the nerves, 

 even, very like those of a young plant of the cocoa-nut ; scape smiple, upright, some- 

 times divided at top, two feet high, even, round. It has little sheaths on it which are 

 yjfmote, priemorse, embracing, netted, pale. Flowers terminating, scattered, alter- 

 nate, large, purple, sometimes varying to white ; the three outer petals are uprigJit, 

 .spreading; the two inner bent in, forming a helmet with the middle upper one; all 

 :qiiaJ, converging a little, the inner ones paler ; nectary ventricose, cordate, embrac- 

 ing the column with its base; Up recurved, two lobed, whitish, with longitudinal blood- 

 red grooves, and others sulphur-coloured ; the middle appendicled, with an ovate- 

 emarginate blood-red little jug ; column elongated, gibbous, boat-shaped, dilated at 

 . top, cordate, having the two anthers on very short pedicels in a case, stigma tubular 

 - in front ; germt)blong, attenuated; capsule large, oblong, pedicelled, attenuated at 

 -the base. Sii\ 



The leaves of this species (which is found orfJy in the cooler parts of the mountains,) 

 Cenerally run-froiK fifteen inches to two feet in length. The flower-stalks grow close 

 to tlicsc, but seperate, and rise commonly to the height of two or three feet. The 

 jpot is fleshy, somewhat transparent, its taste is bitterish^ and attended with a clam- 



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