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9. ULIGINOSA. MARSHY. * 



Frul icosum foliis venosis ovatis oppnsitis, pztiotis sfipulatis, racemis 

 terminalibus, baca's compressis. Browne, p. 160. 



Stipules connate, acute, coivex ; leaves lanceolate-oblong ; seeds compressed^ 

 crested; stem herbaceous, simple, erect. 



Roots long-, creeping ; stem two or three feet high, herbaceous, only a little shrubby 

 jfcwards the bottom, thick, round, at the top leafy and smooth, somewhat succulent: 

 Leaves a foot long, acuminate, entire, with arched nerves, shining, pale underneath : 

 petioles long, round, thick. Peduncles the length of the petioles, round, smooth, 

 three-parted at the top ; branchlets shorter than the peduncle, many-flowered at the 

 top; flowers sub-sessile, clustered, small, pale red ; bractes acute, opposite, convex, 

 iit the sub-divisions of the peduncles : berry spherical, scarlet, when dry compressed ; 

 aeeds plano-convex, compressed, crested on the other side. It flowers in spring.- 

 Native of Jamaica, in lowest places on mountains. S'zo. 



10. CORY.MBOSA. COYMBED. 



Stipules two-toothed; leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute, sub-rigid, shining 5 

 flowers in corymbs'; peduncles and pedicels coloured. 



This is a shrub a fathom in height ; the branches and branchlets sub-divided, up- 

 right, round, shining ; the latter dark red ; leaves entire, nerved, and veined, very 

 finootn, shining, on short, round, smooth, petioles; stipules small, interposed be- 

 tween the leaves, with the teeth lanceolate. EHowers not in a true corymb, bnt in a 

 panicle approaching nearer to that form than in any of the re- 1, especially when nod- 

 din^' with a load of berries ; branchlets trichotomous, erect, fastigiate; common pe- 

 duncles shorter than the leaves, round, smooth, purple; braeres awl-shaped, co- 

 loured, at the sub-divisions of the panicle; flowers purple; bern roundish, twin,. 

 compressed a little, dark red ; seeds hemi-sphericaJ, striated. It Bowers in summet 

 in the high mountains. Szv. 



1 1. HIRSUTA. SHAGGY. 



Stipules lanceolate, entire, deciduous; haves laneeo'ate-ovate, acute, rough- 

 haired; stem extremely hirsute ; panicle spreading. 



This differs from the rest of the species in its very remarkable shagginess, and ex- 

 tremely spreading habit. Native of Jamaica, in the southern parts, in old woods. Sw. 



, 12.ALPINA. ERMINE. 



Stipules two-toothed ; leaves lanceolate-ovate, membranaceous,. netted- veined ;_ 

 panicles erect ; corollas elongated, diaphanous. 



This is a shrub from five to ten feet high, with the branches thick, four-cornered,, 

 smooth, almost simple ; leaves acuminate at hoth ends,, sub-ciliate, membranaceous,. 

 somewhat rigid, many-nerved, smooth on both sides ; on round pubescent petioles; 

 stipules interposed between the leaves, connate, membranaceous, truncated in the 

 middle, having on each side a long linear erect, sub-ciliate toothlet. Panicle often 

 shorter than the leaves ; common peduncle an inch long, flatted or angular, smooth, 

 sometimes red; branches decussated, from upright spreading, simplv sub-divided; 

 itb..the pedicels scattered, red, longer. Berry roundish, largish, two-grooved, 



crowned ^, 



