StrlNTiNQiA HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 527 



V. 1, p. 72. Sub-hirsuta monophijlla, simplex, funcle pahnaio lohata. 



Browne, p. 95. 

 Fronds palmate, hirsute. 

 Roots many, fibrous, black. Stalks black, cornered, about six inches high, covered 

 VTth a ferruginous moss. Fronds divided uiio tliret; se lions, cur in almost to the 

 centre ; the two under parts having ears or app jiuicies, making- tie leaf appeir divided 

 into five sections ; the middle division largest, an inc.i and a half Ion;:;-, and half as 

 broad in the middle, easily dented on eacu side, rougii, and of a ycliow greenish co- 

 lour; each ends in a point, and has a purple mid-rib. fronv wnicn grow, several trans- 

 verse fibres, on wliich is liie seed. The utiole frond is hke- tuv^ leaf of lUe creeping 

 ranunculus. It grew on tiie siniLly banks of a gull\ in a wood, b cwi ,-n the town savanna 

 aud Two Mile VVood. Sloaiie. The hairy simple i;)be-ieaha kenuonitis seldom rises , 

 above five or six inches from cue ground, it is pretty tiairy every wnerc, and grows 

 chiefly m low meist places, l^ut thrives best in ricu luxuriant suady soil. Browne, 



4. UNKATA. LINEAR. 



Frond lanceolate-linear; lines of fructification nearly parallel, longituJinaL 



See Ferns, 



No English Name. MUNTr:GIA. ' 



Cl. 13, OP. I. Polyandria monogynia. Nat. or. Cdumnifem,- 



Sor named from Abraham Munting, professor of botany at Groeiiin en. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, five-parted, oncav.-^ at the base: seg.* 

 mcnts lanceolate, acuminate, large, deciduous ; corolla has five roundish concave 

 petals, spreading, inserted into the calyx, (longor than it): staiu^Msverv many . 

 filaments, capillary, short; anthers roundish; the pistil has a globular "-erm, 

 clothed with villose hairs ; style none; stigma headed, pentagonal, raved, per- 

 manent; pericarp a globular berry, umhilicate with the stigma, five- celled (fre- 

 quently more) ; seeds numerous, roundish, very small, nestling. There is. only 

 one species of this genus, which is a native of Jamaica. . 



CALABURA. . 



Loti arhoris folio angustiore, ruhi Jlore, fructu pvli/spermo 7!m''iIicafo. 

 Sloane, V. ?, p. so, t. 194, f. 1. Fruticosa et villosn ; foliisserra' 

 tis oblongis, ab ano latere brevioribus. Browne, p. 245. 



This' small tree rises from ten to twenty, or, according to Sioane, tbirt^ fret, with a 

 tnink eight or nine inches in diameter, sending out many irre-jjular, spreading, long, 

 round, hairy, branches, covered with a smooth purple bark, with distich slendec" 

 branches and twigs set alternately. In habit and leaves not unlike the bastard cedar. 

 Leaves alternate, flat, spreading horizontally, oblique, ovate-lanceolate, .-icuminate, 

 unequally serrate, nerved, green and hirsute above, hoary-tomentose and viscid iin- 

 darneatl)^ three^ four, or five, inches long, ind three-fourths of an inch broad at: tli^ 



base J:- 



