i: . in. n '"" amaj-c v.:; -is. - ^av^,.^ 



Browne calls this the naked satyriu.m, which lie found at the Angel?, on the side of 

 the road i to tne Lieci-lfilli^ where it was in hfcssom arid about twelve or fourteen 



inches Sigh, but without any leaves; the flowers ofa flesh colour, oblong, andsuccuient. 



6. ELATU.M. ' LOFTY. 



Erection, folds oblongis^' petwlis vagina/is r,rp J rxanirjus, spies. 

 teivn'/iali, nectao qissimis. Browne; p. V 21. S. 2. 



TJJulbs in birh'dlesj thkrk, tomentose; ioL.i-lcavcs ovate petioied, stem -almost 

 nuked, nectary subtnlobute. 



SAVANNA. FLOWER. TCHITES. 



Ce. 5, OR. 1 PcntanJria vionogynia. Nat. Oft. Contorta: 



'This tree is so named by Browne from the Greek word for viper, on account of its 

 ^poisonous qualities. 



Gen. Char. Calyx a five-parted perianth, sharp, small ; corolla ene-petaled, fun- 

 nel form, border five-cleft, flat, spreading very much ; 'nectary of five glands 

 standing round the germ ; stamens Ave filaments, slender, erect, with stiff, ob- 

 long, acuminate, converging anthers ; the pistil has two genus ; style filiform, th 

 length of the stamens ; stigma oblong-headed, two-lobed, attached by a gluten to 

 the anthers; pericarp two follicles, extremely long, one-celled, one-valved; seeds 

 very many, imbricate, crowned with long down. Six species are natives of Ja- 

 maica. 



I. Sl'B-ERECTA. SOMEWHAT KRF.tT. 



Jpocymim erectumfr\iticsum,JloTe lutco maximo et speciossissimo. 

 Sloane, v. !, p. 206, t. 1 50, f. 2. Neriutn 2. Sarrnentum foiiis 

 vi//'Jis ovatis venosis. pcdunculis longis ramosis, J/onbusfauce am- 

 pliutis. Browne, p. 180. 



Peduncles racemed, leaves sub-ovate, obtuse, mucronate. 

 This is a shrubby plant, differing much from its congeners, abounding in milky juice, 

 land growing among the shrubs to ten feet in height, but in savannas only three or four, 

 and sometimes scarcely one; stems scarcely twining, climbing; leaves approaching 

 more or less to an ovate form, either smooth on both sides or scabrous at the back; the 

 peduncles support a few large handsome yellow flowers, hirsute on the outs'ide and 

 in the tube'; the Follicles are slender and brown. Jacquin. The stalk is woody 

 and branched; leaves smooth, opposite, f a shining green on their upper sides, 

 but pale and veined underneath, standing on inch- long footstalks. The flowers 

 are produced at the axils of the leaves on the sides of the branches towards the 

 top, on long woody footstalks, at the ends of which are four or five buds, but 

 seldom more than one flower, the others withering ; they are large, of a bright 

 yellow, and make a tine appearance : the follicles, Sloane observes, are set like 

 bull's horns. It grows in most savannas in Jamaica, whence its name, and all parts 

 of it are of a very poisonous nature ; to which the antidote cocoon and Indian arrow-root 

 have been found to be antidotes. The juice is said to destroy maggots in sores at two 

 pressings. 



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