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tube; germ ovate, hirsute; style the leffgth of the tube, bifid at the top; sti nas 

 erect, acute. Native ui Jamaica, in mountains in the southern part, flowering in 

 -January. Src. 



10. H1RTA. HAIRY. 



Leaves oblong-acuminate, rough-haired, rigid, nerved underneath ; peduncles 

 axillary, trichotomous, erect. 

 This differs fi >m th< hirsuta in the leaves being rigid' and nerved, the branches and 

 peduncles sttfl i d upright, not loo s: from umbellulata in the leases not being lance- 

 oiate-ovat. , acute j the flowers in umbels, not clustered. Sxu. 



ROSE. ROSA. 



Cl. 12, oh. !>. Jcosandria polygynixt. Nat. or. Lenticosie, 

 Jen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth, pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, fleshy, con- 

 tract t . at in'; neck; corolla five ob-eordate petals ; stamens very many, capillary, 

 with three cornered anthers; the pistil has numerous germs, styles, and blunt 

 stigmas; there is no pericarp; berry fleshy; seeds numerous, oblong, hispid, 

 fastened to the inner side of the calyx. 



ROSE. 



The common rose, both red and white, has been long introduced into Jamaica, 

 where it thrives very well, especially in the cooler mountains-, and, with little care, may 

 be kept constantly in bloom. 'The (lowers are never so large, nor the smell so powerful 

 and fragrant, as its England ; owing to the heat of the climate disclosing them too 

 soon. There are so many species and varieties of this well known and beautiful genus, 

 that it is difficult to distinguish them. The following are enumerated in the Hortus 

 Eastensis : lutea, yellow Austrian; cinnamomca, cinnamon ; ccntifolia, hundred 

 leaved; damascena, damask; gallica, red; muscosa, moss; moschuta, musk; alba, 

 white ; spinojissimn, Scotch ; sempevflonns, China ; and rubigitiosa, sweet brier. 



ROSE, WILD. BLAKEA. 



C'f.. 11, OR. I. Dodecandria monegyma. Nat. OR. 



This was so named by Dr. Patrick Browne from Mr. Martin Blake, of Antigua, a 

 eat promoter of useful knowledge, and a patron of the doctor's Natural History of 



great promoter 

 Jamaica. 



Gen. CHAR.' Calyx perianth of the fruit inferior, six-leaved; leaflets ovate, con- 

 cave, expanding, the size of the flower ; perianth of the flow\r snperior; margin 

 quite entire, hexangular, membranaceous-,; corolla six, ovate, expa"ding, ecjual 

 petals; stamens twelve filaments, subulate, erect; anthers triangui r, depressed, 

 concatenated into a ring ; the pistil has an inferior germ, ob-ovate crowned with 

 the margin of the calyx; style subulate, the iengh of the flower; stigma ite; 

 ihe pericarp an ob-ovate capsule, six-celled; Seeds very many. One specie is a 

 aative -of Jamaica. 



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