addisii ITORTUS JASIAICENSTS. T05r 



and between those come out the flowers, of a fine pink colour, but of short duration, 

 seldom continuing open longer than five or six hours; they are succeeded by short 

 roundish capsuies,. filled with small black seeds. Capsule opens transversely ; recep- 

 tacles five, free, distant, filiform, branched, erect, fastened to the bottom of the cap- 

 sule. Browne says the plant was cultivated in many gardens about Kingston, on ac- 

 count of its constant greenness, and the frequent shooting of its flowers. It is a native 

 of the smaller sanity islands beyond Port- Royal, and grows in spreading tufts or beds 

 about the root ; all its parts are very bitter, and frequently used as a stomachic and 

 provocative of the menses, as well as a diuretic. It roots from the lower joints, and ia 

 very easily propagated, but thrives best in a warm rich soil. 



4. FRUTICOSA. FRUTICOSE. 



Portulacie facie maritima fruticosa irecta amarican. Sloane, v. I, 

 p. 205. Anacampseros 1. Foliis radical ibus, mollibus, ovatis 3 

 glabris ; scapo assurgenli, paniculato. Browne, p. 234. 



Leaves ob-ovate, flattish ; peduncles racemed ; calyxes five-leaved ; stem 

 shrubby, decumbent. 



The leaves are round and succulent, and all disposed about the bottom of the stalk, 

 which rises generally to the height of sixteen or twenty inches above the root. It is a- 

 beautiful shrubby plant, and grows in a gravelly soil. Calyx is a five-leaved perianth ; 

 corolla five or six-petaled ; stamens from twelve to eighteen, with roundish anthers ; 

 the pistil has a roundish germ, an erect trifid style, and simple stigma; the pericarp 

 an ovate one-celled, three-valved, capsule, dividing vertically ; seeds many and. 

 roundish. Browne. 



Quamoclit See Indian Creeper. 



KADDISH. RAP TT A\ T U<?. 



Cl. 5, OR. 2. Tetr adynamia siliquosU. Nat. ok. Silitjuostt. 



Gf.N. char. Calyx four-leaved, erect; corolla four-petaied, cruciiorm ; stamens 

 six filaments, four longer, with simple anttiers; glands four, two between each 

 shorter stamen and the pistil, and two between the jonger stamens ana ^iio calyx j 

 pericarp an oblong siiique ; seeds roundish. 



SATJVUP. COMMON. - 



Siliques cylindrical, torose, two-celled. 



The common raddish is frequently cultivated in Jamaica, where it thrives weU in all 

 of its varieties. They are milder than the English raddishes, but become t 

 spungy, and sticky, if not pulled in a fortnight from the time they are first fit for i ; 



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