100 II CRT US JAMAICENSIS. vsychotm4 



four, distinct, ovate, entire, concave-, deciduous ; filaments eight, - shorter than tho 

 petals, upright, contiguous to the pistil ; authers very minute, whitish, commonly 

 glued to the stigma; germ quadrangular, reddish, smooth; style very short, round, 

 thick; stigma spherical ; capsule elongated, quadrangular, retuse, four-celled, four- 

 valved; seeds very minute, roundish, ferruginous. Sw. 



5. yiRTA. HIRSUTE. 



Assitrgeris hirsuta, Jioribus solituriis. Browne, p. 208. 

 Upright, hirsute; flowers four-petaled, eight-atamened.; leaves ovate-acumi- 

 nate, rough-haired underneath. 

 This is a shrubby plant with. a hispid stem ; branches hispid, alternate; leaves ses- 

 sile, marked with parallel veins, i'low ers large, sessile, contained in a large, b*pi<$, 

 four-leaved, cal^x. 



rmNCiWooD See Spanish Elm. 



No English Name. PSYC H OTRIA . 



Cu5, on. 1. Pentandria monogynia, Nat. or. Stcllatee. 



This was so named from the Greek name of an herb in Dioscorides, so Called froia 

 i>.$ delighting to grow in cold sitilations. 



Gen char. Calyx a very small perianth, five-toothed, superior, permanent; co- 

 rolla monopetalous, salver or funnel-shaped ; tube long, border short, five-deft; 

 segments sub-ovate, acute ; stamens five capillary filaments, anthers linear, not 

 exceeding the tube ; the pistil has an inferior germ, a filiform style, and bifid 

 stigma, with thukish blunt segments; the pericarp a roundish berry, crowned 

 with the calyx, bilocular; seeds two, hemispherical, on one side convex and fwe- 

 grooved, on the other flat. Twenty -two species of this genus are natives of 

 Jamaica. 



1. herbacea. herbaceous. 

 Viol tr folio baccifcra repens fore albo pcntapctaloiie fructu rxibro iri- 

 cocco. Sloane, v. l, p. 243. Heroaceum repent syhaticum foliii 

 subrotuni-o cordalis oppositis, foribus paucioribns alaribus, laciniis 

 corolla crecto-patentioics Browne, p. 161. P. 7. 



Stem herbaceous, creeping ; leaves cordate-petioled. 

 Stem filiform, round, smooth ; leaves spreading, acute, bluntly serrate, smooth- 

 above and shuiing, below silvery and white; petioles long, roundish, erect, pubes- 

 cent; stipules opposite, ovate, emarginate, white. Peduncles shorter than the pe- 

 tioles, ere.;, fhickUh, round, commonly radical, but sometimes axillary, few. flowered; 

 flowers white ; berry roundish, scarlet, crowned ; seeds hemispherical, oblong, grooved. 

 Native of Jamaica in shady places. Su\ Browne says its characters agree xretty well 

 with coffee ; it is entirely a creeper, shoots by a ver\- slender stalk, and roots almost at 

 any joint. Barham calls it violet, and says, " This herb has a small, round, creeping, 

 Stem, putting forth at its joints many small fibrous ryots, and having small branches at 



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