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mine will cure then*. Grainger. Dr. Wright says a poultice of the flowers of this 

 shrub are also useful. 



See Cane-Piece Sensitive Cassia Stick Tree Horse Cassia Senna Stink- 

 ing -Weed. 



A~o English Name. ROCHEFORTIA. 



Cl. 5, or. 2. Pentamln'a digynia. Nat. or. Dumoste. 



This was so named by Swartz in memory of de Rochefort, a traveller at the beginning 

 of the seventeenth century. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed, five-parted perianth; segments ovate, blunt; co- 

 rolla one-petaled, funnel-form ; tube short, aperture open, border five-parted, 

 segments ovate-oblong, spreading; the stamens live filaments, inserted in the 

 throat of the corolla at the openings, awl-shaped; anthers oblong ; the pistil has 

 a superior germ, roundish, compressed; styles two, awl-shaped; stigmas simple; 

 pericarp sub-globular, two-celled; seeds a few, angular. Two species are natives 

 of Jamaica. 



1. cuneata. wedged. 



Leaves wedge-shaped, ob-ovate, entire. 



This is a shrub three or four feet high, with a branching, upright, unarmed, stem ; 

 branches sub-divided, flexuose, round, thorny, almost even, covered with an ash- 

 coloured bark ; thorns near the base of the petioles, solitary, stretched out, three times 

 shorter than them ; leaves in bundles or threes, seldom more, alternately clustered, on 

 short petioles, sometimes emarginate, smooth on both sides, brownish green, paler 

 underneath, slightly nerved, somewhat rigid ; peduncles commonly terminating, ax- 

 illary, sub-dichotomous, clustered, cymed, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, 

 greenish, or whitish; segments of the* calyx upright, pubescent; tube of the corolla 

 five-cornered; germ villose; styles shorter than the filaments, villose; stigmas villose, 

 sub-plumose. Native of Jamaica, in dry rocky mountains. Sw. 



2. ovata. ovatp. 



Leaves ovate- emarginate. 



This is a small tree with round smooth branches ; leaves alternate, petioled, entire^ 

 somewhat villose, nerved, and veined, an inch long. Peduncles five times shorter 

 than the leaves, many-flowered, with the flowers in pairs ; calyx divided at the base ; 

 segments villose at the edge, upright, incumbent ; tube of the corolla bell-shaped, the 

 length of the calyx ; segments blunt, a little longer than the tube; anthers large, sub- 

 incumbent; germ smooth. Native of Jamaica. 5'za. 



Rocou See Arnotto, 



RODWOOD. L^TH. 



l. 13,. on, 1. Polyandria monogj/nia. Nat; or. TUiaceie. 



This- 



