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NIGHTSHADES. SOLANUM. 



Cl. 5, or. l. Pentandria monogynia. Nat. or. Lurida. 

 Gf.v. char. See Calalu, branched, p. Ml. Besides those species described undet 

 their different English names, the following species ace indigenous to Jamaica. 



1. DULCUMARA. SWEET. 



Scandens, foliis ovatis utrinque acuminutis, fusckulis Jlorum sub-um- 

 beUulatis spatsis. Browne, p. 17 5. 

 Stem unarmed, frutescent, flexuose, upper leaves hastate ; racemes cymed. 

 Root perennial, woody; stem shrubby, roundish, branched, twisted, and climbing 

 to the height of several reet ; leaves alternate, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire, 

 smooth, soft, veiny; the lower cordate, the upper more or less hastate; flowers in 

 racemes or cyme-shaped panicles, hut not properly in cymes, opposite to a leal' or ter- 

 minating, nodding, purple; anthers large, yellow, or 'lemon -coloured and connate; 

 berries elliptic, scarlet, veryjuicy, bitter, and poisonous; seeds flat, somewhat kid- 

 ney-shaped, of a yellowish colour. This plant is also a native of Europe, where the 

 berries excite purging and vomiting ; where decoction of the whole plant is recom- 

 toeuded in various diseases, as scurvy, rheumatism, inflammations, fevers, &c. 



2. VERBASClFOI.imr. MULLEIN-LEAVED. 



Stem unarmed, shrubby-; leaves ovate-tomentose, quite entire; corymbs bifid, 

 terminating. 



This is an unarmed tree, above the height of a man, with a trunk as thick as the 

 human arm ; the ends ol the branches, the leaves, peduncles, and calyxes, are covered 

 (with a thick nap ; peduncles terminating, erect, always bifid, with the branches again 

 Litid ; flowers white, inodorous. Jacquin. 



3. DIPIIYLI.L'M. TWO-LEAVED. 



Stem unarmed, shrubby; leaves in pairs, one smaller than the other; flowers 

 in cymes. 



This is an ever green stinking shrub, two or three feet high, with a trunk the size 

 of a finger, woody, round, and blackish, and brown brandies; the whole unarmed and 

 smooth ; branches and lea\es mostl}- stretched out horizontals. Most of the leaves tvvj 

 together, on short petioles, by the side of each other ; one lanceolate, bluntish, entire, 

 from two to four inches long, the other about an inch, ob-ovate, very blunt, some- 

 times emarginate. Common peduncles very short, lateral, many- flowered, forming a 

 sort of cyme ; the proper peduncles pendulous at the back of the leaves ; flowers small, 

 with a five-toothed calyx ; corolla white, deeply five-parted ; segments lanceolate- 

 acute; berry globular, smooth, succulent, orange-coloured, the size of a chick pea; 

 seeds whitish yellow. Jacquin. 



4. JAMAICENSE. JAMAICA. 



Stem prickly, shrubby ; leaves wedged, wider in the middle, obtuse-angled, 

 tomeutose on both sides; racbises and calyxes piickly ; prickles bent back. 



Stem a fathom in height, branched, prickly ; branches flexuose, round, foment ose, 

 Vol. II. B prickly. 



