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may !: ''i anguished ffjm rolundifolium by the leaves not being orbiculate of'ovate, 

 the stem not divaricate, but more simple and thicker ; tbe leaves underneath paler and 



-thicker, broad-ovate at the base, with a very short point. ' Native of rocky w\ 



-among moss. Sw. 



19. cordifouum. heart-leaved. 



Herbaceous, leaves ob-cordate, peiio'Icd, pi tiro-convex, fleshy ; stem creeping. 

 Stem filiform, climbing,- rooting, divaricate, round, succulent; leaves alten 

 entire, smooth; petioles longish, reflex. Spikes on the lateral branches pedicelled, 

 opposite to t!te leaves, filiform, an inch long, solitary ; peduncles- shorter than it 

 ..spikes; flowers very minute, whitish. The whole-plaivt has a sharp taste. It is very 

 distinct from the others. in the leaves, and grows in old woods on decaying trees. 



20. KIOMMULABH OJ il'.M. 



Herbaceous; leaves orbiculate, concavo-convex ;**tftem filiform, creeping, 

 rooting. 



Fter.is two or three feet long, sub-divided, roundish, very smooth, soft; ! 

 petioled, alternate, small, shining, somewhat sui :i ! nt, \ :r minli i v hairy on the 

 ^entire margin. SpiU< > peduncled, terminating, short ; pedun ireely longer 



th'.ii! the leaves, upright; flowerslvardly discernible, whitish. It resembles rotu; 

 f pliu)n, but differs in liai in < a filiform divaricating stem, and orbicular concavo-coi.veK 

 leaves. i It grows on g;d trees Sw. 



2 1.- FILIFORM E. ' FILIFORM. 



Herbaceous,. leaves linear, blunt, the uppermost in Whorls; stem filiform, 

 creeping. 



Hoots capillary, stem creeping far and wide; four-cornered, smooth, striated, and 

 spotted; branch 3 short, ascending^ filiform, loose, nearly upright, four-sided, spot- 

 ted, smooth ; leaves .small, tbe lower-ones opposite, decussated, in fours at top, linear- 

 oblong, entire, underneath paler and Spotted with pale red, smooth on both sides; 

 petioles shortish -'Spikes terminating, pedur.cied ; peduncles upright, solitary, ter- 



.minating, the length of the leaves, round, smooth; calyx none, but ; roundish scale ; 



."filaments tw >, very short, at the sides of the scale; anthers twin; germ oblong, co- 

 vered with the scale ; style none; stigma villose; berry oblong, minute. Native of 



. Jamaica among moss at the roots of trees, on the high mountains. Sw. 



22. STELLATUM. STARRY. 



Leaves in whorls three, four, or five, together, oblong, acuminate, three- 

 nerved. 



This is an herbaceous plant, a foot high, or more ; root simple, filamentose, whitish ; 

 -stem round, leafy, pubescent, sometimes ferruginous. -Leaves four or five on a petiole, 

 entire, smooth, paler underneath, scarcely succulent ; the upper leaves are commonly 

 three, the lower four, seldom five, bpikes terminating, long, four or five, conjugate, 

 filifoun, loose ; flowers very minute, green ; no calyx, but an ovate smooth scale co- 

 vering the germ ; at the base of which are two very short filaments ; anthers roundish^ 

 twin ; germ ovate ; no style ; stigma oblique, villose ; berry sessile, oblong. Sw. 



23. RETICOLATUM. NETTED. 



Leaves cordate, seven-nerved, netted. 

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