41 HORTUS 7A]\TAICENSIS. WARSitEA 



8wl-shapeH btalc, hoary wiili very sipall stellate hairs, closely converging at top, one- 

 seeded, fsaiive of the souUieni parts (jf Jamaica in coppices, Sw. 



12. ARGUTA. SHARP. 



Lcavfs cordate-serrate, atteiuiatod at the top ; stem wand-like ; peduncles ax- 

 illary, fiiitorm, one-flui^ered. 



Stem srooathi-ro.nnd, 'three feet liigh, stn'ling out long slender liranches ; leaves 

 smooth, ligiit green, on long footstalks, the lower ones near three inches long, and 

 aimosLtvvo.hroad^at their base. ,iFlo\vers on very long peduncles, small, and of a whitish 

 ye'.ltnv colour, (apsides five, tno-avvned at the top, smooth, one-seeded. Native of 

 Jamaipain dry lieJges in the southern parts. S:i\ 



MAR^H TTIFFOTL or BOG-BEAN. MENYANTHES. 



Cl. ^, OR. 1. Pentandria monogynia. Nat. ok. Precipe. 

 Gen. CHAR. Cidyx a one-leafed, five-pai-ted perianth, erect, permanent; corolla 

 one-peialed, fiinnel-fi)rm, border five-cleft, clefts reflex, spreading, blunt, con- 

 spicuvnisly slK.i;gv ; the stamens are five awJ-shaped short filaments, with acute 

 anthers, l)ifi.! at the base, erect; the pistd has a conical germ, a cyiindrij style, 

 almost tne lenmli o( the corola, and a bifid co ..pressed stigma; the pericarp is an 

 -ovate capsule, surrounded by the calyx, one-celled; seeds many, ovate, small. 

 One species is a native of Jamaica. ' 



INDICA. INDIAN. 



l^ymphaa minor is affinis Indica fiore alho piloso. Sloane, v. I, p. 

 252. Aquatica nymphteafoliii cordato-orbiculatis, pttiolisjioriferis, 

 Browne, p. 131. 

 Leaves cordate-subcrenate ; petioles floriferous ; corollas hairy within. 

 The lea\es are cordate, peltate, bright green on one Side, dark russet on the other; 

 flowei. nmbel-fascicie i, placed or. tiie stem just below the leaf. Glands and tube o{ 

 the corolla yellow, border white, both of the most exquisite texture : the divisions of 

 the corolla may be cailed three-winged ; they look as .if covered with silver frost. 

 Gtertner. Sloane describes )t as havmg a leaf like the colt'a foot, floating on the top 

 of water, about two inches in diameter, thick, yellowish green, smooth, without ap- 

 parent nerves. Petioles about a foot long, more or less according to the depth of the 

 .water, on the surface of which they float ; they are round and brownish, and out of 

 them come several white flowers, just under the leaf, on peduncles an inch long, oi 

 chorter. 



No English Name. MARSILEA. 



Cl. 24, OR. 1. Cri/ptoganu'a miscellaneip. Nat. or. Filices. 

 So named in honour of Coqnt Aioysio Ferdinando Marsigli, of Bologna. 



