494 FORT US JAMAICENSIS. marshmau-ows 



Leaves oUong-lancenlnta, toothed, wedge-form at the base, quite entire ; pe- 

 duncles n.uch longer than the petioles ; capsules two-horned. 



This has a large strong root, deeply fixed in the ground ; the branches are woody, 

 erect, of a dark brown colour, risnig a foot high. The leaves are purple about the 

 eiges, agreeing in most rospecls with the c/Ziarz'.';, having two prickles at the ends of 

 the outermost coat of the seeds. Tlie whole plant boiled is diuretic. From the root 

 is made an oil. $loanc, 



5. VISrOSA CLAMMY. 



Alcea populi foho villosn, leviter serrate. Sloane, v. 1, p. 222, t. 139, 

 f. 4. Frill iculosa, riscosa et lillosa ; foliis cordato aciiminutia, su- 

 perior ihus It'll iter et acute crenatis ; j)etio/is longis, pedunculis tcmii- 

 bus solitariis ad aias. Browne, p. 280. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate, very finely sf:rrate, tomentose-viscid, hairy, 

 peduncles sub-solitary, longer than the petiole ; capsules awnless. 



This has many green round stems, rising from two to four feet, spreading. At the 

 et^ds of the twigs are two or three leaves, on inch-long petioles, hirsute, and small, 

 'The flowers are axillary, peduncled, and yellow. The whole plant is clammy, and 

 ..smells stroug. Browne s;iys it has very small footstalks to the flowers, and seldom growi 

 a%ove four or five feet high ; the trunk ligneous, and covered with a whitish bark; the 

 leaves and smaller branches a little villose ; the seed vessels buticw, flatted at the top, 

 and composed of many cells. 



6. URENS, STINGING. 



Allhea spicafabetonictr folio filloso, spica breviori et laxiori. Sloane, 

 V. 1, p. 44, t. 14, f. 3. Hirta iirticata, foliis cordatis serratis, fto' 

 riibus capitatis, pedunculis communibus alaribus. Browne, p. 280. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, acuminate, toothed ; peduncles axillary, many-flowered, 

 glomerate ; capsules awnless. 

 Stem a foot high and more, suffrutescent, simple, or branched, erect, round, hir- 

 sute ; leaves alternate, nerved, hirsute, hispid, on long petioles ; stipules bristle- 

 shaped, at the base of the petioles. Flowers terminating, heaped on axillary branch- 

 lets, sub-glomerate, on very short pedicels, yellow, with a purple eye ; capsules five, 

 oblong, compressed ; seeds roundish, compressed, wrinkled, black. Native of Ja- 

 jjiaica in dry coppices. Sji\ Browne callsitthe nettle sida. 



7. JAMAICENSIS. JAMAICA. 



^himilior, foliis ovatis serratis alternis, disfiche sitis ; pefiolis cf pe- 

 dunculis brevibus, rajnulis Jioriferis Joliolatis alaribus. Brownej 

 p. 280. 

 Leaves ovate-serrate, tomentose; flowers axillary, sub-ped uncled ; capsules in 

 fives, two-horned. 

 Stem suifrutescent, a foot high, branched, round, hispid ; leaves petioled, alternate, 

 small, scarcely acuminate, nerved, softish '. petioles many times shorter than the leaves; 

 leaves next the petiole slightly emarginate ; stipules opposite, at the base of the pe- 

 tioles, bristle-shaped; flowers on very short peduncles, from one to three, small, yel- 

 low ; bcftks of the capsules very short, ^'3', Browne calls this plant the broad-leaved 



