&c> HORTUS 'J AM A IC EN 3)3. 



POLYPODY 



N ' mTvch more than afoot high.* the twigs" three inches long and half an inch broad; 

 the pinnii.es are a quarter of an inch long,- and joined together almost to the end, with 

 ferruginous dots on the hack, and of a yellowish green colour on the upper- side. It 

 grew ou the banks of the Rio Cobre. Sloane. 



32. -HIKTUM. ROUGH-HAIRY. " 



Frond at bottom tri-pinnatiful, towards the top bi-pinnatifid ; segment; ovate, 

 blunt, almost entire ; stipe and branches rottgh-haired. Sw. 



33. PUBESCFNS. PUBESCENT. 



Minus sub-hirsutum et simpliciter pinnatum, ffrliis distinctis sub- 

 ovatis crenatis, capsulk sparsis. Browne, p. 101. 



.Frond, bi-pinnate, hairy; pinnas lanceolate-ovate, somewhat ga-shed, acute, 

 the outer confluent. 



This seldom rises above eight or ten inches, and is not common in Jamaica; it 

 spreads into a branched foliage above the middle ; these are simple, and furnished with 

 oval, alternate, and jagged, leaves; both the foliage and branches of the plant are 

 adorned with fine down. Browne. 



3 k DICIIOTOMt->r. DICIIOTOMOU3. 



Filix fcmina, seuramosa major, dichotomy pitmulis lonchitidis, sci't 

 long is, angustis, non dent at is. Sloane, v. I, p. 102. 



Dichotomous ; fronds pinnate, pinnas linear-lanceolate, quite entire, hori- 

 zontal, glaucous underneath. 



This grows seven or eight feet high; stems as thick as a finger, smooth, shining, 

 roundish, of a reddish colour, always divided into two branches, standing opposite, 

 and they again into two others, which are for the most part three inches long, and 

 made up of many inch-long pinnas, joined at bottom to. one another, by a narrow mem- 

 brane running along the mid-rib, thence grow ing very narrow, and ending bluntly, 

 leaving an empty space between them ; they are of a grass green colour above, paler 

 below. At every one of the larger divisions of the stem stand twigs with pinna?, as in 

 the tops of the branches. Sloane. 



Priekhj, -u-ith scattered spines, or arborescent. 



'35. ARBOREUM. TREE. 



Arboreum maximum, fronde tenuiori, caudicc durissbno. Browne, 

 p. 104. Pol. 4.1. 

 Fronds bi-pinnate, serrate ; trunk arboreous, unarmed. 



Fcm-tree. This plant rises by a considerable simple, hard, and ligneous, trunk, 

 to the height of tweuty or twenty-five feet ; it is, like the other ferns and palms, fur- 

 nished only with ribs, which fall off gradually as it rises, while the new shoots spring 

 up from the top : it resembles the palm tribe both in the form and structure of its trunk 

 also, being very hard immediately under the bark, but loose, soft, and fibrous, in the 

 middle. It holds for many years, bears all the inclemency of the weather with ease, 

 and is frequently used for posts in hogsties and other inclosures, where the smaller 

 aims are not at hand. Bro-wnS. The trunk is sometimes armed with spitiules ; the 



fronds 



