2ycrfc!ANTH33 HO TIT US JAM AT CENSUS. 1- 



IITPEniCOIDT9. HYPERICUM- LIKE. 



Frvtfcosum minus, sttprMdecompositunf; ramutts gtatilibus mar'gim 



Mat is ; Joins * linearibus, sessilibus, basi bigUnululis. Browne,- 

 p. 309. 



ESates oblong ; branches ancipitnl. 



This is an elegant little shrub, common- in the cooler mountains of Kew I igtianea, 

 rising about three feet, very full of leaves and branches. The filaments dd not seem 

 to be joined at the bottom. Browne* The branches aTe dicbotomotis, the twigs Com-.' 

 pressed and ancipital. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, lanceolate', obtuse, entire, very 

 finely perforated, smooth; at their base ace very small glands. Flowers terminating,.. 

 peduncled, solitary, yellow ; two leaflets of the calyx are four times as big as the two 

 others, and inclose them ; they are-heart-shaped, brunt, and smooth; corolla cruei- 

 form; petals the size of the larger leaves of the calyx spreading; filaments distinct,, 

 upright, surrounding the germ, the length of e petals ; germ oblong, sharp, com- 

 pressed; styles two, very short; stigmas blunt. Capsule compressed, covered -witlr 

 "*he shrivelled calyx. Su\ 



Pet esia See Rondeletku 



JVb English Name. . PHYLLANTHUS. 



Cl. 21, OR. 3. Monoecia iriandriat Nat. or. Tiicoccar. 



This generic name is derived from two Greek words signifying leaf and a flower, flie 

 flower-growing out of the leaf 



Gen. char. Male calyx six-parted, bell-shaped; no corolla; filaments three, 

 anthers twin. Female calyx as in the male ; no corolla; nectary a rim of twelve 

 angles, surrounding . e germ ; the istil has khhI lish germ, three bifid styles, 

 and blunt stigmas ; the pericarp a . ui lish capsule, three u.-ooved, three-celled; 

 cells J>i valve; seeds solitary, roundish. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



NUTANS. NODDtKG. 



fficirli fructu glabro, arbor, julifera, lactescens folio myrtino.- 

 Sioai. , v , t f 58, f. 2. 



Shrnbbv, leaves lternate, oval, glaucous underneath; racemes terminating, 

 leaf), nodding. 



TKis has gray coloured sn z\\ rents, which send up a trunk the bigness of a man's leg, 

 tttenty feet high, covered with a graj bark on the outside, on the inside red and milky. 

 Tff twigs afterrain abound in flowers, after whica f'oilow leaves, two inches long and 

 onebioad, of a dark green sinning colour. The twigs have here and there a small 

 green' triangular fruit, on short nedicels, which afterwards enlarges, and contain* three " 

 jtattidish *eeds in three celisi Shane. 



Sec Sea-Side Laukei* 



