1M IIOBTUS JAMAICENSIS. st-avts* 



in all its parts, and has a fibrous root, easily quitting its hold of the ground ; it is called 

 in Jamaica, Spanish nettle, and is very common, especially in the mountains, where 

 it becomes a must troublesome weed, from the multitude of its sei j ds, and the quick- 

 ness of its growth, as it vegetates and perfects its seed in six weeks time, when it soon 

 after withers and flies away. The fields on which it is allowed to seed a few lays after a 

 shower of rain appar covered with a green and beautiful verdure, like a bed of parsley. 

 Cuttle and hor.ses are verv fond of this plant. The decoction of the leaves, about a 

 handful in a common teapot, drank frequently is said to be good for a strangury or 

 stoppage ot urine. Boiled and eaten as a green, they are said to be good for the dux. 

 The expressed juice, about a tea spoonful, with two or three grains of salt, dropped 

 into the eyes, removes dimness and films. 



2. SCANDENS. SCANDENT. 



Stijpruciicosus, vimineus ; foiiis oldongo-oxatis, oppositis ; JJoribus co- 

 mosis. Browne, p. 317. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-acuminate, serrate; stem climbing, shrubby; flowers 

 panicled, ovate. 



Stem round and somewhat rugged ; branches long, round, divaricate ; leaves pe- 

 tioled, somewhat angular at the base, nerved, wrinkled, dark green, smooth on both 

 .sides; nerves beneath subvillose. Peduncles terminating, opposite, decussated ; flowers 

 pedunded, white, ovate, or conical. Calyx conical, with ovate, acute, minute, scales; 

 border of the corollets recurved; anthers black ; pollen fulvous ; seeds wedg&shaped, 

 oblong, crowned with two awns ; chaffs of the receptacle arched at the tip, including 

 the-flojrets, keeled at the back Native of Jamaica in the cooler mountains. Szcarti. 

 Browne calls it the weakly shrubby bidens, rising five or six feet, or more, but requir- 

 ing the support of the neighbouring bushes. 



Vj. HIRSUTA. IlAlRY. 



Conu:<7 frutkosa, Jolio hasla'o , Jlorc pallidc purpurea. Sloane, v. 1, 

 p. 25 7. 



Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, entire, tomentose, hirsute, stem climbino- 

 shrubby; peduncles opposite, divcrgimg, many-flowered. 



1 This by a large woody stem, rises seven feet hi',; h, bark whitish, branches quadran- 

 gular and opposite. Leaves at the ends of the twigs, an inch and a half long and an 

 inch broad at the base, hairy; and odoriferous. Peduncles axillary, leafv, supporting 

 the flowers, each on its own peduncle, of a pale purple colour, standing close together , 

 seeds small, oblon'g, striated, of a light brown colour, with several awns- Sloane savs 

 this herb i-> accounted an admirable vulnerary, being beaten and applied to the wound. 



4 NIVEA. SNOWY. 



Leaves simple, cordate-ovate, acuminate; branches trichotomous, serrate; 

 hemispherical, peduncles i in ;ated. 

 Stem two feet high, branched very much, bluntly four-cornered, upright, some- 

 what rugged; branches oppos sated, patulous, four-cornered, rugged ; leaves 

 opposite, nerved, wrinkled, and rugged, on longish petioles. Terminating branches 

 irichotomous, elongated ; the final peduncles longer, with solitary, hemispherical, 

 white flowers ; florets numerous ; i-ca'es of the c.,l\ \ ovate, convex, pubescent, short< i 

 than the chaffs of the florets, which are very many ; anthers biueish ; seeds oblong, 



acuminate 



