IKDUM HORTUS JAMAICENSIS, ' 41"? 



Gen. CHAR. Common calvxronndish ; perianth five- toothed ; coro'la one-petaled, 

 funnel-ionn ; stamens hvt- very siiori filanu;nts, inserted into the tube; anthers 

 linear, erect; the pistil has an int'erioi germ, a simple style, and hifij sti(>nia ; 

 pericarp a sii'o-ovate l)eiry, one-etlied; seeds two, convex on one side, flat oil 

 the other. One specieo is a native of Jamaica. 



noYOC. 



1 Sub-fntticosa-, foliis ebiongis angustis utrinque aculis, radice crocea. 

 Broune, p. 159. 



Procumhi'nt. 



Steni shrubby, a foot high, procumbent at bottom, branched ; branches simple ; 

 leaves petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; iKanchlets from the axils of the leaves, 

 opposite. Flowers teruiinatiii;?, ags^regatej in a globular receptacle, white; calyx 

 tubular, thick, nndiviJed; UiKe of the corolla villose within, uiih a nectariferous 

 base ; style bifid; stigmas reflex; berries aggregate, with two seeds in each. Sw. 

 Browne notices four kinds of this plant, the smaller slirubbv, the narrow-leafed climb- 

 ing, the oval-leafed climbing, and the larger shrubby, morinda ; all, he says, common 

 about the lowlands, and frequently found climbing among the bushes in all the lower 

 hills; the roots colour linens of a dark hue, and be supposes may prove an useful in- 

 gredient among dyers. Long calls iti/aw-n-eed, but gives no reason why it is so called. 



INDIAN SHOT. CANNA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Monandria monogyma. "Nat. or. Scitaminea. 

 Gen. CHAR Calyx a three-leaved perianth; leaflets lanceolate, erect, small, co- 

 loured, permanent; corolla one- petaled, six-parted, divisions lanceolate, con- 

 joined at the base, the three outer ones erect, larger than the calyx; the three 

 inner ones larger than the outer, two erect, one reflected, and thus constituting 

 the upper lip ; nectary petal-like, two-parted, of the length and figure of the 

 petals'; the upper division ascending, the inferior revolute, imitating the lowec 

 lip of a corolla ; the stamen has no filament, anther linear, growing to the upper 

 margin of the division which bears the nectary ; the pistil has' a roundish, rugged, 

 inferior, gerna; style single, ensiform, growing to the anther-bearing nectary, 

 lanceolate, of the length and figure of a petal; stigma linear, growing to the 

 margin of the style; the pericarp is a roundish capsule, ruggc I, crowned, three- 

 grooved, three-celled, tliree-valved ; seeds few, globular. One species is a na- 

 tive of Jamaica. 



INDICA. INDIAN. 



'Canyia Tndica. Sioane, v. 1, p. 253. Capsulis verrucosis spatulis 

 bijloris. Browne, p. 113. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate at both ends, nerved. 



This plant has a thick, fleshy, tuberous root, which divides into many irregular 

 iinobs, spreading wide near the surface of the ground, sending out many large ovate 

 leaves without any order, which are twisted at their first appearance like a horn, but 

 afterwards expand, and are frequently from eighteen to twenty inches long, and seven 



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