mvchotma II OUT US JAMAICAN SIS. 105 



19. BRACHIATA. BRACIUATG. 



Stipules ovate, bifid; raceme terminating, compound; blanches brachiate ; 

 flowers aggregate, sessile. 

 This shrub is a fathom in height, with upright, four-cornered, even branches. - 

 Leaves oblong, acuminate at both ends, entire, nerved, and veined, smooth, some- 

 what wrinkled, paler underneath, on round petioles, which, together with the nerves, 

 are pubescent underneath ; stipules interposed between die leaves, wide, smooth. 

 JUaceme almost upright; common peauniie round, flatted a little, elongated, pub 

 cent. Branches spreading horizontally, three-parted at the top ; pedicels very short. 

 flowers sessile, three or tour, aggregate, pale ; bractes wide, concave, sharp ; at the 

 base of the branchlets of the raceme, and of the pedicels, and under the flowers, pu- 

 bescent. Berry oblong, crowned, two-grooved, very dark blue; seeds grooved. It 

 flowers in May and June. Native of Jamaica, in high mountains in the southern 

 parts. Sw. 



20. LAXA. LOOSE. 



"Stipules ovate-acute, decjduous; leaves ovate-acuminate; racemes in three-, 

 terminating, trichotomous ; branches and pedicels sub-capillary, loose. 



Leaves, on very short petioles, from one to two inches in length, entire, smooth, 

 pale, and very minutely dotted underneath, scarcely nerved, veined, on very short 

 petioles; stipules very small, interposed between the leaves, entire, sub-ciliate; ra- 

 cemes two inches long, loose, compound ; berry oblong, a little acuminate at both 

 ends, smooth. Native of Jamaica in coppices on the mountains.- Sis). 



1. LAUmrOt.IA. LAUREL-LEAFED. 



Stipule ~ oYs.te-acuminate, deciduous ; leaves lanceolate-ovate, acute, thickish, 

 smooth ; panicles erect ; berries roundish. 

 This differs from the glabrata in having longer thickish leaves, larger flowers, and 

 roundish berries, it grows in dry coppices. Sw. 



22. GRANDB. GREAT. 



<-Stipules deltoid, revolutn at the edge, awl-shaped at the tip; leaves cunei- 



torm-ob-ovate ; stem angular. 



This is suffruticose, and from twelve to sixteen feet in height. Stem upright, sub- 



lierbaceous, thick, stiff, grooved, smooth,.; with herbaceous, stiff, angular, smooth, 



branches, and axillary grooved branchlets. Leaves a foot and more in length, and 



three inches wide, with a short point, quite entire, nerved and veined, smooth, paler 



underneath, on short, thick, roundish, -petioles; stipules interposed between the 



leaves, wide, awl-shaped at die tip, smooth. Panicles large, at the ends of the 



.^branchlets ; common peduncle sometimes longer than the leaves, roundish, upright, 



striated; branches in threes and fours, in a sort of whorl, stiff, somewhat compressed, 



margined, thicker towards the base, striated, three or four-parted, again sub-divided 



at the tip. Fiowers numerous, on short pedicels, somewhat clustered, pale. Berry 



-ovate, crowned with a very minute. calyx ; seeds plano-convex. It Bowers in April, 



in mountain coppices, in the interior western parts of Jamaica. Sw. 



Of this genus Browne enumerates seven species, but describes none of them partt- 

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