jpothos- H OUT US JAMAICENSIS. 93- 



cultivated, although, in favourable situations, very good potatoes have been produced 



from foreign plants. 



See Calalu Cankerbeury Egg- Plant Night-Shades Tomatos Turkey- 



BeIIIULS. 



Potatoe, Sweet See Sweet- Potatoe, 



A'e English Name. POTIJOS. 



Ci 4, or. 1. Tetrandria monogynia. Nat. or. Piperita. 



Gen. char. Calyx a globular spathe, one-leafed, gaping on one side; spadix quite- 

 simple, thickened, covered all over with little fructifications ; there is no perianth ; - 

 the corolla has four wedge-shaped, oblong, erect, petals ; stamens four widish 

 erect filaments, narrower than the petals, and of the same length; anthers very 

 small, twin; the pistil has a- parallelo-piped, truncate, germ; no style ; stigma 

 simple; the pericarp aggregate berries, roundish, two-celled; seed single, 

 roundish. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



YILACEA, VIOLET. 



Parasiticum minus, foliis ovatis punctatrs glabris, spica brevi. 

 Browne, p. 333. Arum 13. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, entire, nerved, dotted. 

 This is a sub-parasitical plant, with thick, long, filiform, simple, smooth, whitish, 

 roots ; stems several, heaped, two or three feet long, rooting, simple, thickish, roun I, 

 stiff, knobbed, sheathed, leafy, smooth. Sheaths at the knobs of the stem, or at the 

 insertion of the petioles, surrounding the stem, of a netted contexture, ferruginous. 

 Leaves scattered, alternate, acuminate, convex, dotted but not perforated, membra- 

 naceous; petioles thickish, middling, round, channelled above, smooth, sheathing at 

 the base. Scapes from the bosom of and scarce longer than the petioles, erect, round, 

 smooth, solitary, three-cornered. Spathe ovate, concave, entire, shorter by half 

 than the spadix, spreading; spadix half an inch long, cylindrical, green. What Lin- 

 neus calls the corolla consists of four triangular valves, retuse at the tip, not to be dis- 

 tinguished but in the berry- bearing spadix. Filaments four, like petals, membrana- 

 ceous, whitish, permanent, within the valves, closing up the germ, concealed so that 

 the anthers appear to sit on the stigma ; anthers twin, with one-valved lobes ; germ 

 roundish; stigma bifid; berry rolled up in the valves at the base, pellucid, violet-co- 

 loured, four-seeded-; seeds oblong, remotely disposed in a square, white. Native of 

 Jamaica, in the highest mountains, at the roots and on the trunks of trees. Szoi 

 Browne observed it in the woods about St. Ann's Bay, the stem of which was slender 

 and shagged, and adorned with a few oval leaves ; it stuck pretty close to the trunk of 

 iiueh trees as it grew upon, but seldom ran above two or three feet. 



Puigkly-Petar See Indian -Fig. 



PRICKLY 



