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IIOKTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



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No English Name. NAMA 



Cl. 5, OR. 1. Pentandria digynia. Nat. or. Succulents. 



Gen t - char. Cal\x a one-leafed perianth, five-parted, permanent; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, straight, somewhat spreading ; corolla one-petaled, wheel- 

 salver-shaped, tube short, border five-parted, segments ovate, obtuse, the length 

 of the calyx ; the stamens are five filiform filaments, ovateat the'base, inserted into 

 the middle of the tube of die corolla, alternate with and shorter than the segments; 

 anthers oblong, bifid at the base, revolute, incumbent ; the pistil Ikis an ovate in- 

 ferior germ . styles -tw\i, capillar)-, erect, the length of the stamens ; stigmas ca- 

 pitate ; the pericarp is an ovate-oblong capsule, blunt, compressed, grooved on 

 each side, two-celled, two-valved, shortei than the calyx ; seeds numerous, very- 

 small, fastened to a Hat receptacle in the middle of the partition. There is only 

 one species. 



JAMAICENSIS. JAMAICA. 



Jlcc'hiata ri/losa, feliis ovatis, petin'is marglnatis recurrcntihus, Jlori- 

 bus sol ita nis. Browne, p. 1S5, t. 18, f. 2. 

 R >it simple, thready; stem herbaceous, from two inches to half a foot in length, 

 Sub-divided, procumbent, pubescent, tender, three-winged from the decurrent pe- 

 tioles; branclilets from the axils of the leaves procumbent; leaves opposite, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, ovate-roundish, entire, pubescent; petioles decurrentat the sides, 

 the wings converging to the side opposite to the petiole. Flowers axillary, two to four, 

 in clusters, small, white, on short peduncles ; calycine segments linear, erect, some- 

 what hirsute; tube of the corolla narrower at the base, a little longer than the calyx; 

 segments, of the border roundish, erect, convex, incumbent, not spreading ; filaments 

 from the base of the corolla, wider at bottom, awl-shaped; anthers roundish; germ 

 oblong, conical; sty les contiguous, stigmas blunt; capsule oblong, blunt, four-cor- 

 nered, acuminate, one-celled, two valved ; containing many minute, roundish, brown, 

 2 seeds. It is an annual plant in cultivated ground. ^">. Browne says that the, whole 

 ^ of tnis little plant is samewlv.it hairy, with the stalk, and branches margined; he met 

 - 2 with it about the Angels, near Spanish Town. 



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