HORT-US JAMAICENS'IS. J21 



awl-shaped filaments, almost thelengthof the corolla; - file; 



1 is :. i tjn I'ior germ ; a filiform style, tin- length of the corolla; 



igrria ; the pericarp is a roundish capsule, crow.ned, *wo-e t elled.; steals 

 .: J, or sometimes solitary. Ten species are natives of .Jamaica. 



Willi many seals. 



1, TlUFOl.IA'IW. nilil.K-I.I-AVED. 



Leaves in threes, tomentose underneath; panicles .axillary. 



This is an upright tree. twelve feet in height. The younger branches are obtusely 

 'triangular and hirsute; leaves lanceolate-acute, quite entire, smooth on the upper, 

 slightly tomentose on the lower, surface, three inches long, on hirsute petioles ; stipules 

 roundish, acuminate, in threes, alternating with the leaves. Racemes hirsute, une- 

 qual, branched, axillary, an in'ch and -Jt>han in length; Bowers small, reddish, sessile 

 ..and peduncletl, void of scent ; fruit two-valved, with a partition opposite the valves. 

 Jacquin, who observed it in Jamaica, (lowering in February. 



2. WLPSA. HAIRY. 



Leaves ovate, hairy on both sides ; peduncles axillary, shorter than the leaves, 

 trilid ; flowers lour-stamened. 



"This is a shrub with round or four-cornered branches, leafv towards the top, and hairy 

 below, even, ash-coloured, often waited with the old deciduous petioles.; leaves op- 

 posite, two or three inches long, the upper or terminating ones clustered, ovate- 

 lanceolate, entire, nerved, hairy, underneath rough-haired or tomentose-hoary ; pe- 

 tioles short, villose ; stipules between the petioles, sub-connate, acuminate, hairy. 

 Peduncles opposite, filiform, hairy, at the top trifid or three-flowered ; the flowers 

 pedicelled ; the lateral pedicels half an inch long, the middle one shorter. Bractes 

 two, awl-shaped at the base of I le Literal pedicels, and two others at the base 

 of the germ, shorter by half than the calyx; calyx four-parted, segments lanceo- 

 late-linear, acute, villose; corolla salver-shaped ; tube sub-cylindrical, thelengthof 

 the calycine segments, wider at top, on the outside villose or somewhat silky ; border- 

 near the aperture crowned with a margined ring, four- parted, with the segments 

 roundish, spreading, convex above, shorter than the tube. ; filaments four, very short, 

 inserted in the tube above the middle ; anthers oblong, linear, included ; germ villose ; 

 style the length of the tube ; segments of the stigma linear, blunt; capsule small, sub- 

 globular, twin, -villose, two-valved, with the partition contrary; seeds numerous, 

 -brown. Sii'. 



With sub-solitary seeds. 



3. THYRSOIDEA. TIIYUSED. 



T,eavcs oblong, acute, membranaceous, pubescent underneath ; thyrses ax- 

 illary. 



This is a small tree or shrub, six feet high, branched, upright, even, with an ash- 

 coloured bark; branches simple, almost upright, long, spreading, round, or bluntly 

 four-cornered, smooth ; leaves opposite, decussated, three inches long, entire, nerved 

 and veined, on petioles an inch long, striated, spreading ; stipules between and above 

 the netioies, pressed to the branchlet, wide, ovate, acute, smooth, rigid. Thyrses 

 solitary, opposite, shorter than the leaves, oblong, spreading, on a common petiole, 

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