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he found two ounces of castor oil, given every third day, and an injection of Indian 

 arrow root decoction every niglit, and pap of the same for iiouiishmcnt, succeed in the 

 advanced stage of . the duca^e. Externally applied the castor oil is in some degree 

 acrid. 



2. ENERMIS. UNARMED. 



Leaves peltate, stib- palmate, serrate; petioles glandular; fruits unarmed. 



This is a stouter tree than the other, and hears larger and more productive nuts. 

 Stem the first year red and shining, afterwards ash-coloured with dusky spots. Leaves 

 u foot and a half in diameter, on long petioles ; glands the same in numbers and situa- 

 tion as in the common sort. Calyx reddish green; germ somewhat wrinkled, dark 

 Ijurple : fruit ovate, larger, shining, dark green, somewhat-wrinkled, hut without the 

 east appearance of prickles. This so much .resembles the other as scarcely to be re- 

 garded as a distinct species The oil has the same qualities as the other, and this plant 

 being more productive, is now most generally cultivated. It is a native of the Spanish 

 West Indies, from whence it most probably was first brought to Jamaica, where it is 

 now very common. 



Oil Plant or Oily Pulse See Vanglo. 



No English Name. OLDENLANDIA. 



Cl. 4, or. l. Tetrm&fia monogynia, Nat. or. Stdlat.e. 



So named in memory of II. B. Oldenland, a Dane, who collected plants at the Cape 

 ef Good Hope, in 16i)5. 



Gen. cuar. Calyx a four-parted perianth, the part awl-shaped, superior, perma- 

 nent; corolla one-petaled ; tube cylindrical, closed by a beard; border four- 

 parted, acute, spreading, a little longer than the calyx ; the stamens are four 

 simple filaments, within the tube, with small anthers ; the pistil has a roundish 

 inferior germ ; a simple style, the length of the stamens ; and a bifid obtuse 

 stigma; pericarp a twin capsule, roundish, two-celled, opening between the 

 teeth of the calyx ; seeds numerous, very small. Two species are natives of 

 Jamaica. 



1.UN1FLORA. ONE- FLOWER ED. 



Aquaticafoliis obovatis oppositis, Jioribus sivgularibus ad alas. Browne, 

 p. 146. 



Peduncles quite simple, lateral ; fruits rough-haired ; leaves sub-ovate, acute. 



Stems branched and creeping ; leaves opposite, lanceolate- ovate, sub-petioled, 

 quite entire; flowers axillary, few, each on its proper peduncle; germs hispid; the 

 petals are at the intestines of the leaves of the calyx ; the anthers are large, incumbent, 

 and elliptic; germ obversely pyramidal ; seeds roundish. Browne calls it the water 

 eldenlandia, and says it is very common about the Ferry ; it is found frequently in the 

 waters, and grows of a length proportioned to the depth of the place, and yields and 

 bends with the stream ; but both the leaves and stalks are of a reddish colour ; some- 

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