HORTUS JAMA I CEN SI'S. settit.s 



of an inch in diameter, si.ipt about the edges, on inch-long petioles. The flowers 

 come out in tufts, small, and white. It grows on the sides of rocksj which it coicr*. 

 among the mountains near Hope- River in Liguanea. Sloane. 



14. DEPRESS.}. DEFRESSKD. 



Leaves opposite, roundish, erenate, smooth; flowers terminating, clustered} 

 stem creeping, sub-divided. 



15. SRIiULATU. -SERftUI.ATE. 



.Leaves opposite, lanceolate, serrate, smooth ; peduncles axillary, shorter than 

 the leaves; flqwerin little beads ; stem frutescent, angular. 



16. LUCIDA. SHINING. 



Leaves opposite, semi-pinnate, shining; peduncles apiary, longer than the 

 leaf; flowers.in little heiuls; stem frutescent, angular. 



] 7. t USEIFOI.XA. GUNEATE-I.EAYID. 



Leaves opposite, cuneate, ob-ovate, toothed at the top, the alternate ones 

 larger; racemelets peduncled ; llowers monoecious. 



Besides the above native species the dioica, or great European .nettle, and the tt raw, 

 iOr small nettle, have been introduced. 



Sci' Dwarf Elder. 



NETTLE-TREE. EOEHMERIA. 



Cl. 21, or. 4 Monoecia tetrandria. Nat. on. Urticte. 

 So named in honour of G. It. Boehmer, professor of anatomy and botany in the uni* 

 Versify of Wittenberg. 



Gen. char. Male flowers in the same plant with the females, either distinct or 

 mixed: calyx a one-leafed perianth, four-parted to the base; parts lanceolate, 

 acute, somewhat erect, coloured ; no corolla ; no nectary ; stamens four filaments, 

 longer than the calyx, subulate, upright; anthers roundish, ovate; pistil a rudi- 

 ment or none The females have no calyx, but numerous crowded ovate-acumin- 

 ate scales; no corolla; the pistil has an ovate compressed germ between each 

 scale; a filiform, erect, permanent, style ; and a simple pubescent stigma; there 

 is no pericarp ; seed roundish, compressed, margined. This genus, Swartz ob- 

 serves, is intermediate between urtica and parieturia. There are only five species, 

 four of which are indigenous to Jamaica. 



1. CAUDATA. TA1LFD. 



Frutlcosa ; foliis amplissimis, oralis, serratis ; spicisloyigissimis, (e~ 

 nuibus, cxalis propendentibus. Browne, p. 338. Urtica 11. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-acute, serrate ; racemes very long, pendulous ; flowers 

 dioecious; stem suflfruticose. 

 This grows in the cooler woods of Jamaica, and is furnished with very broad leaves, 

 ~-Urowne, 



2. CYLINDRICAL 



