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b'norn-oi'eed, very common in all parts of the island. The leaves and tender buds con- 

 tain a great quantity of mucilage, and lather like scan with water, and are frequently 

 used in shaving washes by siicli as cannot coiivenieacly bear tue smell or acrimony of 

 soap. The leaves are purgative. 



8. PERlPLOCtFOUA. PERIPLOCA-LEAVET). 



^Icea populi fcl:o iru-ano integro. Sioane, v. 1, p. 222, t. 139, f. 2; 

 Sulci three and Jour qj Bowne, p. 280. 



Leaves cordate-lanceolate, acuminate, quite entire^ tomentose beneath; pe- 

 duncles bub-divided, longer than the petiole ; capsules awned. 

 Root annual ; stem two to four feet- high, erect, simple, round, pubescent, some- 

 times divided towards the top into spreading branches : leaves petioled, alternate,- 

 smooth, somewhat wrinkled, lioary beneath. Panicle terminating, hnlf the length of 

 the stem, erect, almost simple, spreading ; peduncles simply sub-divided, alternate, 

 tiiiforin, die last one- flowered. Flowers pale, somewhat light purple i capsules five;,, 

 ovale, acuniinale.T ^if, 



9..UMBEI.LATA. KMBELLED. 



Erecla, sitb-villosa, raviosa, tenuis ; foliis c^rdato ammhiatis, reflect- 

 tentibus, Icniter et acute creiiatis ; Jiore singulari ct ratnulo Jiorifero 

 J'oliolalo ad alas. Browne, p. 281, 



Leaves roundish-cordate, toothed, somewhat angular, acute ; peduncles four- 

 flowered or thereabouts, umbelled, axillary; capsules tuo-awned. 



Browne calls this plant the shrubby sida with reflected leaves, which is very commoii 

 in the hills about the Ferry, and rises generally to the height of four or five fret. The 

 flowers are disposed chiefly touards the top, and the leaves conunonly reflected a goo(J 

 5?ay backwards. 



JO. PANICULATA. PANICLED. 



IjoIUs cordato acuminatisy serratis ; pedunciiUs Inngis, tenut'ssiviist^ 

 alarihus, tnferioribus simplicibus, superioribus ramosis. Browne^ . 

 p. 28. 



Leaves ovate-cordate, toothed ; racemes panicled ; capsules two- beaked. 

 Stem herbaceous, erect, two feet higij, sub-divided, round, rui>ge(l, somewhat hir- 

 sute ; branches spreading, almost simple, fiuform. Lea^^.s peiiole , alternate, sub- 

 cordate, the smaller ons ovate, acute, tooth -serrate, nei-ved, som wijat hirsute.^ 

 Peduncles axillar\, sub-divided very long, capidar., spreading very much; the last 

 ne-flowered ; seginei.t.i of ihc calyx bent back; corolla dark puride, with the. pttals 

 spreading ; capsules five, compressed, roundish, acuminate. Native ot calcareous 



rocks. Sw. . 



11. DITMOSA, BVSn. 



Leaves cordate, ovate-acumiiictie, serrate, suijOth on both sides ; flowers pao 

 nn led. 



Panicles tcrminatinpr, branched, almost erect; petals a pale yellow; capsules five 

 eg niore>r,frt(jut4itly six, rouuuish, gibbous yu one side, angular on the other, wiih an 



avvi-shapeU 



