.iM HOITTUS JAMAICENSI^. -tivcitwoRT 



middle, smooth, and of a dark green colour. Tiie fops of the twigs nre generally 

 branciiS-i, and c:uTy several flowers of a ye'lovv colour, which are large in ]iroporiixjii 

 to the plant, and generally longer than the leaves. 'Jise capsule is |)yraniidai, oblong, 

 covered with a few small leaves, thi-ee-Cv>lled, with great plent\' of small brown seecU 

 in each cell. The whole ])laiit makes a beantifu! a]ipearanc:e, and is not uncommon in 

 the road to Si'xtpen INlile \V'a!k, about Guanaboa, and llic mouutaiusin St. Ann's. It 

 grows in a dr^'^andy bitt cool soil. Shane ik Mrcwnc. 



.2. CORDirOLlUS. .HEAUT-I.EAVED-. 



\Frlti.i conlato-acuminaiis, pefu'lis br('vibus,Jioribus iemiinalihus quan- 

 dogue goninalis. Browne, p. lo7, t. 'J, f. 2. 



Leaves cordate ; segments of th-e corolla lanceolate, acute. 



Browne remarks that this plant maj- be deemed a variation of the foregoing, or that 

 they are at least so very hke m the general make and habit, that the form of the leaves 

 is almost the onlv ditfercnce : he fou-nd it on the banks of Mamee River, between the 

 hills above Bull-Bay. Swartz observes that the leaves are always heart-shaped, the 

 upper ones onl}' bcmg ovale and sessile j the corollas are also rather larger. 



3. EXSERTUS. LONG. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate ; peduncles trichotomous ; genitals very long. S-ui: 



4. LATirOUUS. BRO.AD-LEAVED. 



Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate; peduncles trichotomous; segments o^ 

 the corolla erect ; genitals included. *S'k'. 



5. UMBELLATUS. UMBELLED. 



Leaves elongated, oh-ovate ; flowers terminating, peduncled, umbelled; seg- 

 ments of the corolla very short, blunt, upright. 



Lncm-pLUM See Soapberry. 



TJVERWORT. LICHEN. 



Cl. 24, OR. 5.-^ Ciyptoga^niaalgte. Nat. OR. Jlgi^. 



Gen. char. Male flo:vers. Vesicles conglomerated, extremely small, crowded, or 

 scattered on the disk, margin, or tips of the fronds. The female flowers, on the 

 same or on a distinct plant : Receptacle roundish, flattish, convex, f tubercle ), 

 concave, (scuttella) ; sub-revolute, affixed to'the margin (pelta), often differing 

 from the frond in colour, within containmg the seeds, disposed in rovs. This is 

 an extremely numerous genus, twenty species of w'lich have been found ia 

 Jamaica. 



1. leucomelus. black and white. 

 Cinerca, fibris lateralibus nigris crinita. Browne, p. 80. 



Naked, glabrous, white on both sides, meally beneath; segments lincars 

 branched, fringed with black on the margin ; shields pedicelled, nearly ter- 

 minal, Hat, blueish black, with a white radiate margin. Sw. Obs. t. 11, f. 3. 



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