UNGO 'HOUTtFS JAMAICENSI, .*^ 



dissolving it in reciificd spirit of wine, nial;ini; a tincture, wliicli it wns impo'-.sible to 

 disiinguisli from ilie stinie prcjraratiot! of giuii guaiaeuni. He found it ;i spc cific for the 

 drops}', giving- a decoction of con tray crva and bteei, to strengtlien tlic lymphatic vessels 

 Bker the evacuations. 



Sec Gu.m-Trre. 



Ko.EnsUsh Name. MANETTIA. 



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Cl. 4, OR. 1. Tetrandria ir.onogi/nia. NaT. or Contorttr. 



This was so named from Xavier Manetti, prefect of the botanic garden at FfoTcnce. 



Gen, CHAR. Calyx an eight-leaved perianth ; corolla one-petaled, salver-shaped, 

 four-cleft; nectary a rim surrounding the receptacle; stamens four filiform fda- 

 ments, with linear anthers ; the pistil has an inferior compressed germ, a filiform 

 declined style, and bifid stigma; the pericarp is a turbinate capsule, interior, 

 compressed, grooved on both sides, one-celled, tvvo-valved, or seperable as it 

 were into two capsules ; seeds few, fiat, winged, orbicnlate with a ce;>tral seedlet, 

 imbricate at a pulpy oblor.g pillar. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



LYGISTUJI. 



Flexihfruticomm, foliis ovatis oppositis, pctiolis pedatis, racemis alari- 

 biis. Browne, p. 142, t. 3, f. 2. 

 Leaves ovate-acute, veined; stem twining, sufFruteScent. 

 '"Drowne found this weakly shrub in the lower mountains of St. Mary's. It rises by a 

 n-ery brap.chcd flexile stem to the height of about seven feet, and is every where adorned 

 %vitu moderately large oval leaves, disposed in an opposite order : the twigs or boughs 

 be<Tin to shoot almost immediately above the root; and they, as well as the succeeding 

 branches, rise genendly to the height of the main stem, and are furnished with raode- 

 *iate branches of flowers towards the top, which generally rise by long branched foot 

 >taiks from the alse of the leaves. Bro-duc. 



Mangel WuRZEL See Beet. 



MANGO. MANGIFERA. 



Tl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandriamonogijnia. Nat. OR.-^Tcrebinfirccie. 

 This name is derived from the vernacular name of the fruit, and fcro, to bear. 

 <}en. char. Calyx a five-parted perianth, divisions lanceolate ; corolla five petaled, 

 petals lanceolaie, longer than the calyx ; the stamens are five filaments, awl-shapedj 

 spreading, the lengtn of the corolla, with sub-cordate anthers ; the pistil has a 

 roundish" germ, a filiform st^le, the length of the calyx, with a simple stigma; 

 the pericarp is a kidne) -form ilrupe, oblong, gibbous, compressed; seed an'ob- 

 Jong kernel, compreaseo, laauj^iaose, (Jim species lias been introduced. 



IKDICA. 



