$0S HORTUS JATJAICENSI^ mLEtO 



for most diseases of the head, and is one of the chief ingredients in thie {amoiis puhis 

 epil'pc'icus of Kiverius. The ben-jcs. hvuised and the juice expressed from tKCm^. 

 niixed with linseed oil, and taken inward!}', cures pleurisies, stitches, and all pains of 

 the sides, relieves pal.sies, conviil.sions, and cramps ; made into a caliipiaso), rjj.ens 

 Sneilings and schirruus tumours or iniposthumes. arliuvi, p. 101. 



2. opuNTiOiDts. opunt:a-l:ke. 



Visann opuntioides ramuUs (crnpressis. Hloane, v. c?, p. !?S, t. CGIj. 

 f. I . FarasitHum ganculatum aphr^lhiir., raimdis Cumpt casts cppC" 

 sitis. Browne, p. 357. 

 Flem prohierous, very much branched, leafless, compressed. 



This seems, by its way of grovMh, to be near a kin to the cpvntia, having v.o leaves, . 

 r rather stems ; but what we must call the stem or fir^t leaf at the coming out of the 

 trunk of the tree is flat, somewhat roundish, of a very dark green colour, having at 

 eveiy inch and a halt's distance, out of tfieir sides only, opposite bi-anches growing out 

 of one another, after llie maimer of the Indian fig, being an inch and a half long, and 

 one-eighth of an inch broad, the whole growing to a foot in length : at the ends of the 

 branches are small yeiluwish flouers, two together; berries whiush, lio.e those of thtj 

 ordinary niisietoe. It.gruws on trees. Shane.. 



3. FLAVENS. YELLOW. 



leaves ovate-veined ; racemes axillarj', in threes or fours on each side. 



This is a shrubby species, with simple branches, ovate, sinuous, very broad, leave?, 

 which are opposite, and footsialked ; racemes several, upright, simple, axillary, md 

 sub-umbchale; hemes verticiliate, placed at intervals,, roundish, and umbilicate 



MISLETOE. LORANTHUS. 



Cl. 6, OR. 1. Ilexa'iidria 7no7icffynia, Nat. or. jiggrrgafpe. 



This generic n;;me is derived from two Greek words, signifying strap and a flower, 

 tthe corolla being cut into srraps. 



Gfn. char Calj s Perianth of the fruit inferior ; margin entire, concave of the 

 fiower superior, or the margin entire, concave; c<^irolia si.x-petaied, petals oblong-, 

 revoluie, equal ; the stauiens six fiiameiits, awl-shaj)ed, fasttned to the bases of 

 the petals, the length of the corolla ; anthers ohlono ; the pistil has an oblong 

 gerui, between the two calyxes, criiiferi(jr ; style siniple, the length of the sta- 

 mens ; stigma blunt; the peritarp an oblong one-celled berry; seed oblong.* 

 J"oi)r species axe natives of ^iuT.aica, 



1 . AM ER ICANU?. A M ER ICAV. 



Parasilicajoliis caitis oppos 'tis, ractviis rarioribus alaribus. Browne^, 

 p. 197. 



Hacemes somewhat branched, cj-med ; flowers nodding; leaves ovate, difform. 

 Branches sub-divided, leafy, smooth, pale green, brittle: 1 aves petioled, oppo- 

 ?itfj entire, sub-conaceous, nerved, pale; petioles. short, compressed, smootii ; ra- 

 cemes 



