UO 1I0RTUS JAMAICLNSIS. BBe 



banks, and walls. One sort' is common on wine-casks, whirh at first is like flakes of 

 snow, but turns yellow, and at last like a mouses skin : in this state it has black groin* 

 a* the Lase, like gunpowder, rots the cask, and is excellent to staunch blood. Ligltfyout. 



No English Name. SEGURIDACA. 



Cr,. 17, on. 3. Diadcfphia decandria. Nat. on. PapHtoTuteeae. 



So named from the Latin word for a bill-hook, srcuri*, which the pod resembles in 

 shape. 



Gen. char. Calyx a three-leaved perianth, small, deciduous, leaflets ovate, co- 

 loured ; the uppermost respecting I i stan ! ird and two the keel ; corolla papili- 

 onaceous, with the standard two-leaved within the wings ; stamens eight filaments, ' 

 with oblong anthers; the pistil h'as an ovate germ, ending in an awl-shaped style; 

 and a flat widening stigma, toothed at the tip ; the pericarp an ovate legun e, one- 

 celled, one-seeded, ending in a ligulate wing. Two species are natives of Jamaica. 



1. SCANDENS. CLIMBING. 



ScandenSffbliiS'oblongis, spicis lamosts. Browne, p. 2S8. 



Stems climbing, leaves oblong-ovate. 



This is a shrubby succulent plant; the younger leafy branchlets arc changed into 

 very strong tendrils; leaves oblong-ovate, obtuse, quite entire, smooth, alternate, petioled; 

 racemes loose, lateral, opposite to the- leaves ; flowers without see: t, red, with the 

 standard acute, the wings oblong and. attenuated at the base, and a wide appendix t 

 the keel. Jacquin. Browne says lie found this plant in the Bed Hills. 



2. VIRGATA. TWIGGY 



Frutirosa, fol'ris subrctundis, vamulis tcmiissimis, spuis laxis termi* 

 ?ialibus. Browne, p. 287. 



Stem climbing, branches rod-like, leaves roundi.-h. 

 Neither of these plants are common. Browne found this species in the parish of St. 

 James, growing upright, and divided into a number of very delicate spreading brandies. 



SEDGE. TARF.X. 



Cl. 21, OR. 3. Montrcia triandria NaT. on. Calamaria. 



Gen. char. Male anient imbricate, scales one-flewcred; calyx one-leafed; no co* 

 rolla; stamens three, bristle-shaped, with long anthers. Female nectary inflated, 

 three-toothed ; the pistil has a three-sided germ, a short style, and three stigmas; 

 seed single, three-sided. Of this numerous genus Swartz found only one species 

 in Jamaica. 



fiAMATA, 



