$fc HORTUS J AM AI GEN'S IS. primross 



These, as wen as me fresh juice, I have frequently, since that period, administered 

 in complaints of the bowels, (so frequent among the African race and their progeny), 

 with every wished for success. On the estate of Mrs. O'Brien, an old man of eighty, 

 rears was lately seized with convulsive fits every hour, in every character similar to 



litepsy : To him, on being sent for, I- immediately gave a wine-glass full of the juice: 



preserved in rum. The fit which succeeded the first glass was unattended with strong 



convulsions; and the second was little else than a comatose state ; after which a sound 



sleep of tea hours removed every appearance of disorder, except lassitude. This la>c 



iti >ned anti-spasmodic virtue the xanthoxvlum loses by being dried and powdered 



a CQtic qualities being dissipated with the moisture of the plant.' 



" The decoction of the roots has succeeded admirably in throwing out the small pox 

 (and has been long usi d by uie negroes in the yaws), when such determination. to thg- 

 sujrfac.e was thought requisite." 



Prickxy-Withe See Indian-Fic. 



PRIMROSE-WILLOW. JUSSIEUA. 



Cl.10, or. L Decandria monogynia. Nat. or. Calycanthema^ 

 This was so named in honour of Antoine de Jussieu, demonstrator of plants in the 

 rojal garden at Paris. 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx a five-cleft perianth, superior, small; leaflets ovate, acute, 

 permanent.; corolla five-petals, roundish, spieading, sessile; stamens ten fili- 

 form filaments, very short, with roundish anthers ; the pistil has an oblong inf&r 

 rior germ"; a filiform style ; and a headed stigma, flat, marked with five streaks ; . 

 pericarp an oblong, crowned, fire-celled, capsule, gaping at the corners ; seeds 

 very many> disposed in rows. This differs from Oenothera in the sessile permanent, 

 calyx, having no tube: hence o,'n. octovalvis and hirta belong to this genus, 

 making five species natives of Jamaica. 



1. RF.PENS. CREEPIX':. 



Lysimachia lutea non papposa erecta, minor, fiore hdeo pentapctale,. 

 t'rudtu carypphyllbide. Sloane, v. l, p. 201, t. 128, f. ", 3. 

 y/i rbacea , epens. Browne, p. 203. 



Creeping; flowers live-petaled, ten-stamencd ; leaves ovate-oblong. 



Roots simple, filiform, short; stem branching, creeping; branches long, sub-di- 

 'i.i I. divaricating, somewhat succulent, round, smooth. Leaves on short petiole-, 

 ten I, i|l, blunt, spreading, entire, vvvy smooth, whin smaller ones in the 

 axils; peduncles short, one-flowered, round, tliickish, smooth; two very minute 

 scales at the base of the germ ; flowers yellow, small; calyx five- parted ; segments 

 lanceolate, the length of the petals; petals sub-sessile, ovate, blunt, veined; germ 

 attenuated at the base, style thick, stigma convex ; capsule thickisb, opening longi- 

 tudinally ; seeds disposed longitudinally in five rows, angular, compressed. Native of 

 Jamaica in moist watery places, flowering in spri.ig. .SV. It rises ten inches; stem 

 *re.<an J round, succulent, smooth, and brittle, pedicels red, flowers large, yellow, 



unking-. 



