juttleworT 1IORTUS JAMAICENSIS. Ill 



Gen. CFIAR. Calyx a three- parte! perianth ; corolla papilionaceous ; stamens ten 

 connate filaments, with a fissure on the back, and simple anthers ; the pistil has an 

 cbiong germ, simple style, and obtuse stigma ; the pericarp a short legume, 

 turgid, inflated, pedicelled ; seeds one or two, globose, kidney-form. Three 

 species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. LOTI FOLIA. LOTUS- LEAVED. 



Crotalariu trifolia fruticosa, follis glahris, flore e viridi luleo minore, 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 33, t. 17t", f. 1, 2. 



Leaves ternate, ob-ovate ; flowers lateral, sub-racemed. 

 Stems sarmentose, slender, and weak, at bottom stiff and woodv, but higher up 

 herbaceous, round, from- a foot to eighteen inches in height, and more ; (Sloane says 

 three or four feet) ; about the middle dividing into branches, on which, at short inter- 

 vals, grow smooth ternate leaves. Flowers axillary, on peduncles, three or four to- 

 gether, yellow, resembling those of the common lotus; the banner longer than the 

 other petals an I reflex, bin the edges inflex ; legumes about aa inch long, containing 

 five or six seeds, rattling when ripe. 



2. iNCANA. HOARY. 



Crotalariu trifolia fruticosa, foliis rotundis incanis, fioribus spicatis e 

 triridi-luttis, fructu pubescente, Sloane, v. 2, p. 34, t. l"9, f. 2. 



Leaves ternate, oval, villose beneath ; racemes spike-form ; keel tomentose at 

 the edge ; legumes sessile, hirsute. 



Root annual; stem from two to four feet high, almost simple, erect, pubescent; 

 leaves elliptic, entire, nerved; geireral petioles long, angular, horizontal, pubescent; 

 partial very short, round ; stipules solitary, deciduous. Flowers sub-racemose, green- 

 ish yellow, rather large ; peduncles three or four-flowered, shoVt, axillary; pedicels 

 longer than the peduncles ; bractes two, subulate, under each flower. Calyx five- 

 cleft, silky; standard of the corolla fulvous, streaked ; the rest yellow ; stigma acute ; 

 legume sub-sessile, turgid-inflated, villose-pubescent, beaked with the permanent 

 style; seeds oblong. It has the common smell of the leguminous tribe, but is fetid. 

 Sw. The seeds are of a reddish brown colour, and have each a notch. It grew in 

 the Crescent and about Guanaboa. Sloane. 



3. SAGI1 TATIS. SAGITTATE. 



Leaves lanceolate ; stipules decurrent, solitary, two-toothed. 



Hoot annual ; stem herbaceous, half a foot high, or more, erect, sub-divided, strict, 

 round, pubescent ; leaves on very short petioles, alternate, entire, rounded at the 

 base, hoary underneath, and somewhat hirsute ; (but sometimes smooth). Stipules at 

 the sides of the petioles, decurrent, bifid at the top, acute, as it were sagittate. Pe- 

 duncles terminating, solitary, opposite to the petio.es, strict, round, two or three- 

 flowered ; flowers yellow, pedicelled; calyx five-parted, two segments posterior, 

 three anterior, ovate-lanceolate, hirsute ; at the base are two or three leaflets. Stand- 

 ard of the corolla roundish, erect, spreading, pnle ; wings ovate, embracing the keel, 

 which is bilid at the base and blunt at the end : five of the filaments shorter than the 

 other five ; anthers oblong, those of the shorter filaments smaller, roundish: legume 

 sub-sessile, almost cylindnc, veined, pellucid, when ripe blackish ; seeds pedicelled, 

 fixed to the suture in a quadruple row, kidney -form, shining. Sw. 



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