*Btf-TmsTTE IIORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 131 



folly ripens them. The unripe fruit, boiled with a little ginger, in fair water, cures 

 the vertigo." 



See Alligator- Apple, Cherimoya, Custard Apple, and Nutmeg, American, 



SOUTH-SE\ ROSE, NERIUM. 



Cl 5, or. 1. Pentandria monopynia. Nat. or. Contorts. 

 xN. char. Calvx acutely five-parted, small, and permanent ; corolla monope- 

 talous and funnel shaped, a short <\ lindric tube having the upper part divided into 

 five broad obtuse oblique segments, and a coronated nectanum terminating the 

 tube : stamens very short awl-shaped filaments ; anthers arrow-pointed and con- 

 nivent, germen roundish and bifid ; style cvlindiic*; stigma truncated; pericar- 

 piuin long, acuminated, univalvular, pods furnished with numerous oblong 

 seeds, placed imbricated, and covered with down. 



oleander. 



Foliis lanceolatis verticilliter Urnatis,fiwe quandoque pleno. Browne, 

 p. 181. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, in threes, transversely nerved underneath, calycine 

 leaflets sqjuarrose, nectaries flat, three-cusped. 

 This rises by several stalks to the height of eight or ten feet. The branches come 

 out by threes round the principal stalks, and have a smooth bark, which in the variety 

 with red flowers is of a purplish colour, but in the unite of a ligtit green. The leaves 

 for the most part stand by threes round the stalks, upon very short pedicels and point 

 upwards ; they are three or four inches long and three quarters of an inch broad in the 

 middle, of a dark green colour, very stiff and end in acute points. The flowers come 

 out at the ends of the branches, in large loose bunches, of a bright purple, crimson, 

 or dirty white, colour, in the varieties. Jn warm situations this plant ripens its fruit 

 and makes a fine appearance ; in cold wet situations the flowers often decay without 

 opening. The leaves of the plant are acrid and poisonous. Oil, in which th<-\ are in- 

 fused, is recommended in the itch and other cutaneous disorders, in preference to 

 mercurial preparations, for children and delicate constitutions. Mat tyii's Miller. 

 Antidotes against the poison of this plant are vinegar and all acids. The plant is some- 

 times iounU with double flowers. 



Southern-Wood See Wormwood. 



SOW-THISTLE. 80NCHUS". 



Cl. 19, or. 1. Syngenesia polygamia 'qualis. Nat. on. Commute, 



Gen. char. Common caivx imbricate, ventricose; corolla compound, imbricate, 

 uniform corollets hermaphrodite, numerous, equal : stamens five, capillary, very 

 short; anthers cylindrical, tubular ; the pistil has a sulfate germ; a Siifornv 



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