JTOTiciA HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 4Sl 



Gen. char. CaUx a one-leafed, fiVe-cleft, upright, perianth ; segments lanceo- 

 late, acute, permanent, coloured; the corolla has five petals, sessile, lanceolate, 

 a<'iiiTiinate, spreading, deciduous; the stamens five a.vl-shapeJ fiiamentsi up- 

 rioht, tlie lengtli of the corolla, inserted into the base of the calyx, with roundisU 

 incumbent anUiers ; the pistil has an ovate superior germ, a permanent cylindric 

 style, the length of the stamens, and two blunt stigmas ; the pericarp is an ovate 

 capsule, longer than the calyx, mticronated by tlie style, two-celled, two-valved, 

 many seeded ; seeds very small, oblong, .shiniag.. There are two species, one oS 

 which is a native of Jamaica. 



CYRILLA, ^ 



Leaves lanceolate, entire, membranaceous. 

 This grows three feet in height; stem upright, somewTiat branched, round, .ish- 

 coloured ; branches alternate, or scattered, spr^-a ling, angular, ruf )us, smooth. 

 Leaves alternate, bluntish, revolute, with the edges a little waved, one-nerved ; th 

 mid-rib marked with lines above, prominent underr>eath, smooth, paler underneath, 

 dry, spreatling, fTat, permanent, three inches long, and an inch wide ; petioles very 

 short, cylindric below, fiat above, reddiih^ Racemes very many, lateral at the base 

 of the new shoots, one from eacli bud, orr short peduncles, spreading, from four to 

 six inches long, flowers scattered, pediceiled, spreading, white, two or three liti':* 

 in diameter: bracte linear, very siiarp, white, withering, under the pi' licels, than 

 which it is scarcely longer ; bracteoie tv.-o-leaved, opposite, linear, sharp, pressed 

 close, on the pedicel itself next the calyx, winch is white; petals longer than-tha 

 valyx ; anthers- two- celletl, peltate, very pale violet ; germ whitish, style short, couiA 

 pressetl, scarcely bifid, shorter than the stamens ; stigmn headed ; capsule sitting oa 

 'ihe calyXj resesnbling two united styles, by means of its double partitions^. 



JUSTICI.\ BALSAM. JUSTICIA. 



CI..-2, OR. 1. Diandria monofrynia , ^at. on. -~-Persoi!af^e. 



This was so named in honour of James Justice, Esq. F.ll.S. author of th British 

 Jardeners Director. 



Gem. cn.-iR. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, very small, five-parted, acute, upright, 

 narrow; corolla one-petaled, riiigent, tul>e gibbons, bor ler two-lipped, superior 

 lip'oblong-emarginate, l!^ferior, of the same length, reflex, trifid ; sriiiiiens two 

 al-shapcd filaments, hid uniler the iipptr lip, with uprigiit aMher's,' bifid at the 

 base; th pistil has a top-shaped germ, a fiiif >r;u style, tlie -length aird situation 

 of the stamens, and a simple stigma ; the pericarp is an oblong capsuleVMiarrowed 

 at the base, tw-o-celled, two-valved; the paitituwi opposite to the valvo(!,- gaping 

 wiUi an elastic elaw ; seeds roundish. Si.^ -species are iiativ^is of Jamaica. 



I. ASSURGEVS. ARISIVG. 



Flori cardinalls sive rapmifro affiti's anomala, caule qiuidratn, /lore cnc- 

 cineo, capfnihi pyraiiidali Sl.Mne, v. 1, p. 159. Jferbaca trs'tur- 

 gf}is, ad nl-!s a!ferni\ ii-i Ids- et sun nif-tfi's ihriUi ; filiis ihiM-ionbas'' 

 ovatis pctiolhloiigis iiicidciitibas, Br^i.vne, p. 118, c. 2, f. l. 



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