W. a -side TIGHT US J AM A I C EXSIS Ylfr 



This tree is about fifteen feet high, lias a trunk as large as one's leg, asmoofh whitfe 

 bark, and leans towards the ground. Its leaves are two ini hes and a half long, and one 

 and three quarters over, from a broad round base, ending in a -nipt point, or serrated 

 about the edges, having several pretty high ribs on its under side, being soft, of a yel- 

 lowish green colour, and downy. At the tops of the branches cotne the flowers, stan !- 

 ing in a rough green calyx, they are white, out of the centre of which conies a long 

 st\ las or string, having a roundi >h hirsute button at the en I, which augments and be- 

 comes its fruit, and consists of tour or live round, small, brown siliquae, ropes, or ra- 

 ther round follicles, hairy, dark brown, coloured, very hard wreathed, or rolled spi- 

 ralis, one by -another, and containing a great quantity of round brown see I, which falls 

 out of the ends of the pods. It grows on the lied Hills every where, on the road to 

 Guanaboa. The leaves are used in decoctions for glysters, with oil and salt, as those 

 of inaliows. Tt has, in the juice of the root, great virtues in the empyema and sromach 

 diseases. The root applied outwardly in measles, whitlows, and other such diseases^ 

 is very good. Stome. Browne says it is frequent in gravelly hilis, and has much the 

 habit of the mallow tribe, from which it is distinguished by the spiral form and connec- 

 tion of its capsular seed-vessels, and the peculiarities of the parts of the flower. It 

 blossoms in March and April. 



f ea-bean Sec Cat-claw. 



RF.A-niNPWEF.D See Purging SEA-T.ixmvr.ED, 



SEASiDE-BALSAM See WlI.D ROSEMARY. 



Sea-side Beech See Jamaica Bark. 



SEA-SIDE or BASTARD GERMANDER. STEMODIA. 



Cl. 14, or. 2. Didijnamu aagiospermia. Nat. OR. Personattv. 

 Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed, five-parted, erect, perianth, equal, permanent ; 

 corolla one-petalecl, irregular, tube the length of the calyx, border sub-bilabiate, 

 almost upright; upper lip ovate entire, lower three-parted, with the parts round- 

 ed and equal; stamens four almost equal filaments, length of the tube, all bifid ; 

 anthers eight, each placed on an arm of the filaments; the pistil has a bluntish 

 germ, a simple style ihe length of the stamens, stigma bluntish ; the pericarp is 

 an oblong capsule, ovate, two-celled, two-valved, partition contrary ; seeds nu- 

 merous, globular, receptacle sub-cyiindiical. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



MARITIMA. MARITIME. 



Scordium marilimuw; fruticosum, procumhens. /lore cerideo. Sloane, 

 v 1, p. 175, t 110, f. 2. Stemodiacra. Maritima odorata ,- foliis 

 tuinoribus, sessilibus, denliculatis, hastalis ; floribus solitariis ala~ 

 ribus. Browne, p. 261, t. 22, f. 2. 



Leaves opposite, half embracing, flowers sessile, solitary. 



Root long, round, with lateral horizontal fibres. Stem from one to three feet high, 

 erect, four-cornered, hirsute, sometimes in hedges near the sea-coast in a manner 

 scandent. Branches numerous, shorter, scattered, alternate, opposite, three or four 

 togetner, quadrangular, leafy, hirsute. Leavers small, sessile, ovate -lanceolate, ob- 

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