HOUTUS JAMAIC2NSIS.. W& 



The following has multijid leaves. 



15. CCERULEA. BLUE. 



Flos passionis major pentaphyllus. Sloane, v. 1, p. 239.. Foliis 

 quiii quf lob is profunda dwisis, lohis eblo?:gis.' Browne, p. 328. 



Leaves palmate, quite entire. 

 This grows to a considerable height, rising, when properly supported, 'tc the height 

 of thirty or forty feet, having stems as thiek as a man's arm, covered with a purplish 

 bark, but not woody. The leaves are on half inch long petioles, at each joint, com. 

 posed of five smooth entire lobes, the middle one the longest, almost four inches long 

 and one broad in the middle, the others gradually shorter, and the two outer lobes are 

 frequently divided on their outer .side into two smaller ones. Their footstalks are near 

 ttyo inches long, and have two embracing stipules at their base ;. and from the same 

 point issues a long tendril. The flowers come out at .the same joint with the leaves, . 

 on peduncles almost three-inches long. The outer cover or involucre is composed of 

 three concave ovate leaves, of a paler green than the proper leaves of the plant, and 

 sire little more than half the length of the. calyx ; the leaflets of which are oblong, 

 blunt, pale green ; the petals are nearly of the same shape and size, and stand alter- 

 nately between them. Column about an inch long ; germ cval ; styles purplish, near 

 sin inch long; rays of the crown- in two circles ; the inner, which is the shortest, in* 

 dines towards the column ; the outer, which is !>ear. half the length of the petal*, 

 spreads open flat upon them, and is purple at bottom, but t.iue on the outsiJe. ITie 

 fjpwer.s have a faint scent, and continue but one day : fruit egg-shaped, the siee and 

 shape of the Mogul plum, and, when ripe, of the same yeflow colour, inclosing u 

 sweetish disagreeable pulp, in which are lodged oblong seeds, 



Sec. Bcll-Hoof Gr.anadu.la Love in a Mist Water Lemon*. 



PEA, ENGLISH.'. PISUM. 



Cl. 17, Or. 4. Diaddphia decandria. Nat. or. Papilionace<e, 

 (rzy. char. Calyx a one-leafed five-cleft perianth, two upper segments shorter ; 

 crolla papilionaceous; stamens diadelphous. filaments ; one simple, superior, flat- 

 tish ; nine awl-shaped below the middle, united into a cylinder; ; nthers round- 

 ish ; the pistil has an oblong compressed germ ; style ascending, triangular, above* 

 keeled, pubescent; stigma growing to the upper angle; pericatp a large, long, 

 loundisb, legume, one-celled, two-valved; seeds several, globular. 



SATIVUM. CULTIVATED. 



Petioles round; stipules rounded at bottom and crenate; peduncles many- 

 flowered. 



This well known and valuable plant has been long cultivated in Jamaica, in several ! 

 of its varieties, where it thrives admirably well, even from seeds many times removed ' 

 from those brought from a colder climate, if proper care lias been taken to cultivate 

 thenv which is but seldom the case. In England the pease have been greatly improved 

 by what is called roguing, a practice which would no doubt be of great service here r 

 It is done by looking carefully over sucjvas, are designed for seeds at the time wheq - 



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