IH HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. bed 



straight, longer ; wings oblong, very like the keel, but a little larger ; keel two- 

 petaled, acute, with a claw the length of the calyx ; stamens diadelphous filaments, 

 straight ; anthers simple, roundish ; the pistil has a germ shorter than the calyx ; 

 style subulate, the length of the stamens ; stigma obtuse, ascending; the peri- 

 carp an ovate or oblong legume, compressed, acute, OBe-celled ; seeds very few, 

 kidney-form. Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. PHASEOLOIDES. PHASEOLUS-LIK.F. 



Sylvestre scandens, foliis pinnato ternatis, floribus spicatis ; siliquis 

 bispermibus medio ccarctatis. Browne, p. 298. 



Leaves ternate, villose underneath ; racemes terminating. 

 Stem twining to a considerable height, and bearing many flowers towards the top. 

 The legumes have two-seeds, and are contracted in the middle. Browne. 



2. RETICULATA. NETTED. 



Leaves ternate, oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, the veins like network under;* 

 neath ; racemes axillary, sub-sessile ; legumes oblong, compressed. 

 Stem twining, angular, softly villose, sub-canescent ; leaves petioled, leaflets also 

 petioled, the middle one an inch and a half long, the side ones a little smaller, all 

 three acute, villose on both sides, soft,, somewhat wrinkled, netted, and paler under- 

 neath ; petioles tomentose ; stipules ovate. Racemes axillary, solitary, longer than 

 the leaves; pedicels solitary, distant; bractes ovate, attenuated, deciduous; calyxes 

 five-cleft, the clefts linear- lanceolate, attenuated; legume sharp at both ends, pubes- 

 cent, especially on the edges, brown ; seeds two. Sw. 



RED-WITHE. COMBRETUM. 



Cl. P, or. 1. Octandria morwgynia. Nat. OR. Calycanthemte. 

 Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, superior, bell-shaped, four or five- 

 toothed, deciduous ; corolla four or five petals, ovate, acute, inserted into the 

 calyx, and scarce longer than it; stamens eight or ten filaments, bristle-form, 

 erect, very long; anthers a little oblong ; the pistil has an inferior linear germ; 

 style bristle-shaped, erect, very long ; stigma acute ; there is no pericarp, except 

 the crust of the seed ; seed single, four or five angled; angles membranaceous, 

 acuminate. One species is indigenous to Jamaica. 



LAXILM. LAX. 



Spikes lax ; leaves opposite. 

 Branches brachiate, the branches compressed a little at the tip, dusky ferruginous, 

 pubescent; leaves elliptic, large, entire, nerved. Flowers raceme spiked ; toramon 

 peduncle axillary on the terminating branches, erect, round, ferruginous, pubescent ; 

 racemules opposite, spreading, many -flowered ; pedicels one-flowered ; calyx goblet- 

 shaped, four-cornered, villose within, coloured ; petals four, with very short claws, 

 inserted into the angles of the calyx, ovate, spreading, yellowish white ; filaments 

 fight, twice as long as the calyx, springing from the bottom of it ; anthers ovate, mi- 



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