^>-D?AH IIORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 40l 



corolla is seldom less than fiom three to fonr inches in lenglii ; the bonier is white, five 

 inclies ui diameter, a little sinu.ited, and iias five green streaks On the outside. Sloitiie. 

 Browne observes that this plant grows in great aljundance about the Ft-rrj^, Spanish 

 Town, and Sixteen Mile Walk, running- among bashes, and adorned witii large white 

 flowers. He also remarks, that the leaves, like those, indeed, of ail the species ol'co??- 

 volrulas and. iponioea, are vers variable, l)eing sometimes of the form of a heart, and at 

 other limes lobed ; sometimes also the stem onl_y is prickly, at others hoth tiie stem 

 and peti, lies. The fruit is a juiceless berry, giobnb.r, one-celled; rind leathery, se- 

 perating' from the puip when ripe; within covered by a fine while memhiane, niarked 

 witri six longitudinal streaks ; the ptdp is fungous and snowy white, adhering to the 

 seeds, whieli are three or four, ovate, on one side convex with a groove, on the other 

 angular, perforated nerir toe base witli a large umbilical aperture ; they are smooth, olf 

 a pale testai^eous cold'ur. -S^oant R Gfcj/iur. 



5. VIOLACEA. VIOLET. 



Convvlvului mujor, jotio -ubrofundo, jioi c aviplo, purpurea. Sloaue,, 

 V. I, |). io4, t. ys, 1. 1. 



Leaves cordate, quite entire; fiowei's crowded ; corollas undivided. 



The round grtten ^armu; Its or stalks of tins [)iant mount about any tree, shrub, or 



lieoge, to a great iieight, clothing them green with tlieir many branches ami leaves; 

 these are two lucnes aiida half long, and two inches broad at the round l)ase, from one 

 ear to me other, smooth, yellowish green, on petioles an inch and a quarter in length. 

 Tne flowers are of a p:;ie purple colour, very large, beli-shap.;d ; capsule brown, hav- 

 ing above five valves, four round protuberances, and in each oi tiiem a large iriangular, 

 smooth, solid, wimish-br-)wn, seed. It grt)ws every wuere on liedges and dilclics in 

 moist lands. Hernandez says the decoction is purgative, made of the green heri), and 



taken in the morning. Sloane. 



6. TlilLOBA. T 11 RF,.F.- LOBED. 



Convolvulus folio hederaceo, anguloso, /tore dilute purpiinv. -doanc, 

 v. 1, p. 155. 



Leaves three- lobed, cordate; peduncles three-flowered. 



This s liJs forth several stems from the same root, which is oblong, deep, and laiye; 

 the stalks are roun ., reddish, three or four feet long, trailing on the surface of the 

 .ground. The leaves are on two inches long petioles ; an inch and a half or two inches 

 lo;)g from the centre of the petioleto the opposite point, and as much from end to end 

 of the sections at the base ; being three-lobed, the lobe oppositi- the footstalk longer 

 -an i s, warper than tiie otiit-rs. The flower has a half-inch long footstalk, and of a purple 

 Goiour. It grows m great quantities in the Red Hills. 



7. PES TIGRIDIS. TIGER'S-FOOT. 



Convolvulus pentaphyllos, finre pallidc flavesceiife, caule hirsuto, pun^ 

 gm'-e. Sloane, v. 1, p. 15.'. 1 irsufa repens minor pentaphylla, 

 loliis ohlon^is leviler crenatis. Browne, p. 155. 



Leaves jralmate ; flowers aggregate. 



The root is oldon- and tuberous, of an ash-colour, from which rises a purple stem, 

 "fcranched out into others, very tough, and purple, taking hold and climbing upon any 



Fff plant 



