wymotria nORTCS JAMAICENSIS. VSl 



^li'>ut an inch distance from one another, each of which is about an inch and a half 

 long, having roundish leaves standing opposite to one another, on an iuch-l g red- 

 dish foot-stalk, in every thing resembling those of violets, only smaller and rounder. 

 The flowers come out at the tops of the branches ; ihey ate white, and divided Tr> their 

 margins into live sections ; then come several round smooth berries, as big ds an Eng- 

 lish pea, containing, in an orange-coloured pulp, two long brown seeds. It loxes tw 

 grow in shady moist places, by the sides of woods. The berries, or whole plant, 

 boiled in whey, cure fluxes; and, boiled in oil, cure blood-shot eves." b'd:.\am, 

 p. 2Q2, 



2. MYRSTIPHYLI.UM. MYRTLE-LEAVED. 



Myrte folio angusto acuminata, arbor raccmosa bacrifera, fructu sul- 

 cato seu cannulato diphrcno. Sloane, v. 2, p. 102, t. 209, f. 2". 

 Mi/rstipfiylhon minusfruticosum, foliis ovato acuminatis subrigid'> 

 oppositis. Browne, p. 152. 



Stipules ovate-deciduous; leaves lanceolate-ovate, nervelc-s, shining, rigid; 

 branches directed one way ; racemes compound, terminating. 

 This tree has a. smooth light coloured bark, and a trunk fifteen fct high, having a 

 bard white wood ; branches several, leaves mostly opposite, at the ends of the branches, 

 having scarce any petioles, they are an inch long and half as broad, ovate-acuminate, 

 j-mooth, and equal on the edges. At the ends of the twigs come the peduncles in 

 bunches, having oblong flowers of a pale colour, succeeded by oblong berries, having 

 two flat, oblong, pretty large seeds. Sloane. Browne says it is common about the 

 Ferry, and in the savanna near Hunt's Bay, seldom rising above four or five feet, and 

 easily distinguished by its tufted bushy form and smooth leaves. It differs in habit 

 from the fsychotrias, and Browne made a new genus of it. 



3. PEDUNCULATA. PEDUNCLED.- 



Foliis oralis venosis, floribiis quasi umbdlatis, sustcntaculis longiori- 

 bus. Browne, p. 160. P. 4. 



Stipules two-toothed ; leaves ovate- lanceolate, somewhat wrinkled ; flowers io 

 a sort of cyme ; common peduncle elongated. 

 This plant differs from all the other species in its sub-eymose inflorescence, and in 

 having the common peduncles elongated. It grows in the interior mountain woods. 



4. PUBESCNS. PUBESCENT. 



Hirsutum foliis ovatis. Browne, p. 161. P: 5. 



Stipules two-toothed;, leaves lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, pubescent; pani- 

 cles cymed, spreading. 

 Thisisashrub, a fathom high, with the branches sub-divided, round, erect, pubescent. 

 Leaves entire, nerved, pubescent, especially underneath, sometimes sub-tomen- 

 tose, softish, from two to three inches long, on roundish petioles of a middling length ; 

 stipules interposed between the leaves, with awl-shaped short teeth. Panicles ter- 

 minating, erect, the length of the leaves, with spreading sub-fastigiate branchlets, - 

 almost forming a cyme, trichotomous, with a floret in the middle, commonly sessile; 

 common peduncles an inch long, round, pubescent ; bractes linear, opposite, at the 

 sub-divisions of the panicle ; flowers yellowish green ; berry roundish, twin, crowned, - 



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