AiARVEL ' -nOUTUS JAMAICENSIS, ' ' mt 



C'EN. CH.\n. Commoa calyx oval, suh compressed, coriacoous, hairy, <jap'inp nt the 

 ba.se, internailv divided into several (t'ourteeii or fii'eert) coils, in two longitudinal 

 rows, separated by a memhranaceous partition ; therein no corolla; the stamens 

 have no filameats, anthers severdl, iijsierted round each })istil, vcrv small, ob-ovate, 

 sharp bt'low, onc^celled, gaping transversely, exploding a spherical pollen : the 

 pistils several in each cell, cd'-ordinatc in a transverse row, oval , no style, stigma 

 short, blunt; no pericarp ; seed-s as many as there are pistils; tlie receptacle a 

 somewhat -flesljy membrane, clothing the cells internally. Oae .^-puciesk a native 

 of Jamaica. 



QUADRfFOLlA. FOUR-LEAVED. 



Leaves in fours, quite entire. 



This plant is pretty common in the ponds about Old Harbour, and in the parish of 

 St. Elizabeth ; it. has a slender weakly Bfcalk, that creej>s along the banks and bottoms 

 ^under the water, snd emits a few long- and slender footstallvs that reach tlie surface, 

 and bear four thin obtuse leaves at tlieircKtremities, which are not unlikethose of wood 

 sorrel cither in shape or size. Browne. Capsules toothless. Leaves on long petioles ; 

 flowers at the base of tlie petiole ; involucre pedicelled, ovate, transversely maiiy-celled^ 

 .^elJs having pistils and anthers placed on the same receptacle promiscuously. 



^lARVEL OF PERU, MIRABILIS. 



Cl. 5, OR. \. Pcntandria mojiogynia. Nat. or. Nyctagines. 



"'Tflvs vW's so named from the wonderful beauty and diversity of colours in the'fiower. 



fGEN", cii\R. Calyx, the outer perianth one-leafed, erect-ventricose, inferior, five- 

 parJ.ed ; v'^egments ovate-lanceolate, sharp, unequal, permanent; inner perianth 

 globi>lar, pjaced under the petal, with a contracted entire mouth-, and permanent; 

 corolla one-]X'taled, funnel-form ; tube slender, long, thicker at to\)^ placed on th'C 

 inner caJyx ; herder, from upright, spreading, -entire, feluntly five-cleft, plaited; 

 nectary "sohericav fleshy, stirrounding the germ, v/ith a five-toothed mouth ; 

 teeth very ivriall, tr angular, converging ; stamens five filaments, inserteil into tlie 

 orifice of the nectary, and alternate with its teeth, within the inner calyx free, 



.rnore slender, -fastened xjt bottom to the tube of the corolla, filiform, the length 

 of the corolla, inclining, -cnequal ; anthers twin, roundish, rising; the pistil ha?: 

 aturbinate germ within the vectary; a filiform sty te, the length and situation of 



*}ie stamens ; and a globular, 'l^)tted, rising, stigma; there is no pericarp; the 

 inner calyx incrusts the seeds, anJ falls with it ; seed single, ovate, five-cornered, 

 iiJixu species is a native of Jamaica. 



JALAPA. JALAP. 



Fblik ovatis seminibus pulchn; rcticulatis, radice carnosa. Browne, 

 p. 166. 

 Flowers heaped, terminating, erect. 

 This plant is common in Jamaica. It has a large thick fleshy root, which, when 

 transversely cut, shews a number of concentric circles, and has an acrid taste. The 



-S. stalk 



