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8. QUADRJFO; !L'M. LEAVES IN FOURS-. 



Leaves In fom-s, we Ige-form, o'o-ovate, emarginate, sub-ssssile; stern erect. 

 Stem half a foot high, herbaceous, sub-divided, stiff, even, thick. Leaves on short 

 petioles, pb-cordate, a little concave, thiekish, very smooth. Spikes terminating, 

 peduneled, solitary, an inch. long-, round,, whitish, tbickish ; peduncles short ; flowers 

 crowded; no calyx or'coroila, oo-iv a scale ; filaments two., very short-; anthers globu 

 Jar, thin; gerra ovate, no style, stigma oblique, villose. Native of lofty mountains. 

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9. DISCOLOR. DISCOLOURED-. 



Leaves broad-ovate, five-nerved, very smooth,, discoloured on the hinder part;' 

 spikes more hi:--, florets more remote. 



This is a shrub, a fa hom in height, with alternate, erect, sab-divided, jointed, 

 round, smooth, branches. Leav< i alternate, broadrcordate, or ovate, with a blunt 

 joiat,. entire, tbickish,. reined, whitish, or very pale green, underneath, j shining, 

 %\\o c>f the five nerws are marginal; joints swelling; petioles channelled^ short. 

 Spikes pcdicelled, so. nary, opposite to the petiolej shorter than the leaves, slender. 

 Peduncles longer than tiie petioles, round, smooth. There is no calyx, but an oblong 

 scale, within which are two very short evan cent filaments, and two ob-ovate whitish 

 anthers; germ oblong, within the scale ; style short, tbickish ^ stigmas three, small, 

 petite; berry minute, oblongtsh. It is distinct from atnalago in its wide very smooth 

 leaves, Looser spikes, and more remote flowers. Native of high mountains, flowering 

 in autumn. It varies with leaves attenuated at the base, and blunt, ovate, oblique. - 

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10. CT.NICCI.A.TUM. J01NTEB; 



Leaves oblong-pcuniinate, oblique, many- nerved,! smooth; stem and branches 

 i tted. 



A shrub two f thorn 1 , in height, or more ; stem sub-divided towards the top, round,, 

 smooth; branches and branchlets long, ro ! 'ike, round, smooth, very brittle.; joints 

 swelling ; leaves alternate, halfa foot long and more, attenuated but blunt at the top, 

 jrounded and unequal at the base, entire j petioles short, channelled, smooth. Spikes 

 solitary, opposite to the leaves, long, pedicelled ; flowers Spiral as in verrucosum. 

 Stem, though often thick, \vt so weak as to require support from other shrubs. It is 

 distinguished from macrophyllttjn\ which it resembles very much, by its jointed habit, 

 brittleness, &c. from verrucosum by its joints, thinner leaves, ana even stern and 

 branches. Native oi Jamaica, .in stony woods. Sw. 



H.HtSPlDUM. HIsPID. 



Leaves ovate-acuminate, el.lique, hirsute, wrinkled ; nerres alternate, veined; 

 spikes erect. 

 This is a shrub a fathom in height, upright, round, hirsute, hispid ; branches pa- 

 tulous, flexuose, jointed, round, hirsute ; joints hirsute and hispid. Leaves alternate, 

 many-nerved, hirsute, hispid; nerves alternate, raised on the back of the leaf; pe- 

 tioles short, round, not channelled. Spikes pedicelled, opposite to the leaves, soli- 

 tary, two inches long, cylindrical, thick, brown ; peduncles thick, round, hispid, 

 shorter than the petioles; flowers aggregate ; no calyx ; but small round ciliate scafes, 

 by the sides oi which are two very short fuMaents j anthr extremely minute, roundish, 



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