123 HORTUS JAMA IC ENS IS.-. roktckutia- 



sri' uidi in kingtb, angular, striated, smooth; branchlefs opposite, decussated, sub- 

 divided; the: outmost commonly three- flowered; flowers small, dull, whitish yellow * 

 ferruginous; bractes small, awl-shaped, or little leaflets under the ramifications of the 

 thyise; calyx-very, minute, five-toothed. Tube of the corolla elongated, cylindrical, 

 swelling below the border, silky-pubescent on the outside ; border five-parted; seg- 

 ments roundish, convex, distant, patulous, with a small ring contracting and crowning 

 the aperture; filaments five, inserted into the upper part of the tube; anthers very 

 small, ovate, pale, placed in the very aperture; germ roundish ; style awl-shaped, 

 bifid at the top , stigmas simple Capsule roundish, with a groove along the middle, 

 the size of a coriander seed, crowned with the '.cry small calyx, two-celled ;. having 

 two angular rounded striated seeds in each cell. Native of the driest hills of Jamaica, 

 in thewestern part of the island, flowering in May ; the flowers smell very sweet during 

 the night. Sit}, 



4. RACE.MOSA. RACEMFD. 



fflruticosa-, foliis ovatis verticillatim terriatis, stipulis rigidis interpv- 

 sitis, sustentaculisjioram long is ramosis alar ib us.- Browne, p. 143,', 

 t. 2, f. 3. Petesia. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, smooth on both sides ; stipules elliptic 

 with a .short point,; racemes axillary, trickotomous patulous. 



This is a shrub with round spreading branches, covered with an irregular hoary bark ; 

 branchlets four-cornered, compressed a little at the tip, smooth ; leaves decussated, 

 quite entire, scarcely nerved, veined, somewhat membranaceous; petioles longish, 

 four-cornered, smooth ; stipules interpctiolary, opposite, patulous, convex, wide, 

 very minutely villose at the edge. Racemes solitary, opposite, from upright spreading, 

 shorter than the leaves; common peduncle the length of the petioles, compressed; 

 branches decussated, almost horizontal, with sessile, awl-shaped, spreading, bractes, 

 every where at the sub-divisions of the raceme ; flowers pedieelled, distiect, not clus- 

 tere". Calyx small, with five very short upright teeth; corolla small, silky hoary on 

 the outside, pale within; tube short, oblong, equal; border five-parted, segments 

 mate, spreading, pubescent; aperture. naked, five-cornered; filaments from the mid- 

 dle of the tube ; anthers oblong, yellowish, in the apertures of the tube ; germ ovate, 

 smooth ; style simple, upright, the length of the-tube ; stigma thickish, with the apex 

 more acute and undivided ; capsule ovale, crowned with the calyx, smooth, two-celled r" 

 opening by two valves, two-seeded ; seeds convex on one side, flat on the other, 

 joined at the middle, distinct from the partition at the sides. Eesides the ripening 

 seeds there are other very minute embrios within the valves. Native of Jamaica on the 

 mountains. It is allied both to thyrsoidea and laurifvlia, but differs in the leaves, 

 spreading racemes, and flowers. Browne's figure agrees very well with this plant, but, 

 in his specific character, he makes the leaves verticillate-ternate, whereas in his figure 

 they arc opposite; he also speaks of 'the flowers as four-stamened, which they very, 

 jeliiom are Sm. Browne found it near the water fall in Mammee River. 



5. I.A'JRirOI.IA. LAUREL- LEAFED. 



Fruticosa foliis ovatis oppositis, stipulis rigidis intcrpositis, racemfs 

 viinoribus alaribus, cal-ice quinquefidfr. Browne, p. 143, t. 2, f. 2. 

 Leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute, smooth on both sides ; stipules deltoid ; ra- 

 cemes compound-axillary, erect; tube of the flowers very short. 



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