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erect body creeping up and down ; the pistil has three styles. Female calyx and. 

 corolja as in the male ;, the pistil bus an oblong germ, a trifid style, and oblong 

 stigmas ; the pericarp an oblong- three-celled pome ; seeds many, compressed} 

 obtuse, coated. One species has beei! found in Jamaica. 



AMAUA. 



Fbtiis denticulitis, guandogue tri'obis, hiiandoque conlitis, fruciu 

 sub -rot undo minori. Browne, p. 351. 



Pomes turbinate-ovate. 

 Stems very slender, smooth, preen, angular, flexije; joints about two inches dis- 

 tant, with very slender long tendrils, a leaf and often a flower at each ; leaves not more 

 than an inch in length, cul, roughish, with small ash-coloured spots and numerous dots 

 scan i on the upper-surface, on petioles an inch in length. Flowers white, 



fringed ; fruit in form of a pear, four or five inches long, about an inch and a half 

 thick, smooth, greenish, with longitudinal stiipes, of somewhat a brighter colour; 

 ' ry white and bitter ; seed abundant, longish, narrow, of a dusky soot ash-colour. 

 /.'-.y. Browne says this plant is a native of Jamaica, and grows in the coolest parts of' 

 New Liguanea. It grows commonly in other parts of Jamaica, and is said to be poison- 

 ous, Mr, A. Robinson ,ays it was used to destroy rats. 



SijAfiE-WooD See Buck-Thorn and Trumpet -Trek 

 Snap- Dragon See Spirit- Leaf. 



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SNOW-BERRY, or DAVID's ROOT. CHIOCOCd. 



Ct. 5, or. I. Pentandria monogynia. . Nat. or. Aggregate. 



The generic name is composed of die Greek words for snow and berry. 



Gen. char. Calyx- a five toothed, superior, permanent, perianth: corolla morco- 

 petaiuus funnel-form, tube long -spreading, border five parted"; divisions equal, 

 acute, reflected; stamens five filaments, filiform* .length of the corolla-; with, ob- 

 long erect anthers : the pistil has an inferior, roundish; compressed, germ ; a 

 filiform style, the length of the stamens ; and a simple obtuse stigma : the peri- 

 carp is a roundish compressed berry, crowned with the calyx, two-celled; seeds 

 two, . rounuish, compressed, distant. 



RACEMOSA. RACEMEDi 



Jrfsminum forte, folio myrtino, alioru m aaminimlo re sttsfentan ! f!.crc~ 

 albican'? racemosa. Sioane, v. 2. p. 97. t. 188, f 3 Sani.entaset 

 foliis myrtineis oppc-ritk, spick plurimis tvnuissimis et terminalibus 

 et ex alis suprewiis. Browne, p. 1(>4. 



Scandent, leaves broad-lanceolate, flowers lateral, panicle raceme d, one stipu- 

 Jar tooth. 



Stem a fathom in height and more, with smooth loose branches, spreading out hori- 

 zontally; leaves petioled, opposite, oblong, acuminate, nerved, glittering on the up- 

 j>er surface, and smooth; stipules minute, acuminate, within the petioles. Racemes 



axillary;-' 



