5t>iER IIORTUS JAMAICENSIS. is? 



ing horns. Fumigate them for a few minutes every morning with the nests of wood 

 ants and tar. 



A reddish or dark brown mucilaginous gum exudes from this tree, when wounded. 

 The tops boiled in water is good to shave the beard, and for washing, having a good 

 ?scent. The hark in decoction is astringent. ,E<"om a piece of the root cut issues water, 

 ill.' the water-withe. Sloane. 



There is a variety of this tree, with smaller leaves, also very common in Jamaica, 

 Which both Sloane and Browne have noticed ; but it is difficult to distinguish the' on*; 

 from ihe other, being so similar in habit, in flower* and in fruit. Sloane says th 

 rood was used for cork. 



SPIDER- WORT. TRADESCANTIA. 



"Ci.-'fi, or. I. Hexandriartionogynia. Nat. or. Ensatee. 



This was so named from John Tradescant, who first introduced it into Europe. 



Sen. char Calyx three-leaved, corolla thrce-petaled, stamens six equal filaments 

 with jointed hairs, anthers kidney-form, the pistil has an ovate germ, a filiform 

 style, and a three-cornered stigma; the pericarp is an ovate three-celled capsule, 

 seeds few and angular. Four species are indigenous to Jamaica, and the whole 

 genus nearly allied to comrndHea. 



1. ZANONIA. 



Pericli/meum rectum herbacemn, g'efitiame folio, foh ''< caukm 



ambient e. sloane, v. 1, p. 243, t. 147, f. 1. Erecta major simplex, 

 floribus conglomerates pedunculo longiori incictentibus. Br. p. l_>5. 



Erect, leaves broad-lanceolate, peduncles lateral solitary, jointed in the middle, 

 many- flowered, bractes in pairs. 



Plant herbaceous, two feet high; stem simple, jointed, round, sheathed, .almost 

 Saked below, smooth, succulent ; leaves sub-sessile; attenuated at the base, sheathing, 

 alternate, acuminate, entire, nerved longitudinally, smooth above, pubescent or vil- 

 lose beneath, almost a foot long 1 ; sheaths ovate, half an inch long, distant from the 

 stem, membranaceous, nerved, shrivelling, at the edge hirsute, ciliate. Peduneh 

 opposite to a leaf, round, elongate !, length of the leaves, surrounded at the base with 

 a sheath, which is cowled, membranaceous, retuse; they are jointedin the middle, 

 "and at the joint there is an acuminate sheath. Flowers terminating, from six to eight, 

 white, on very short p :< io Is, which -are clustered, thickened, and unequal ; they gra- 

 dually erect themselves as they flower, and are again turned back as the flowers go oil', 

 under each pedicel is a two-leaved involucre, or two bractes, which are opposite, ovate, 

 acuminate, entire, nerved, rerlexed, smooth. Calyx somewhat pitcher-shaped, tri- 

 fid at the base ; leaflets ovate, acute, concave, inclosing the corolla. Petals a little 

 bister than the calyx leaves, ovate-acute, erect, waved at the edge, white or 

 hyaline; filaments thedength of the petals, villese in the middle, equal; an.thersdbu- 

 , three-cornered, uniform ; germs oblong, placed on the middle of the calyx ; cap- 

 sule berried, oblong, three-cornered, when ripe very dark purple, placed obliquely 

 on the pedicel. Native of the southern parts of Jamaica, s<: mountain woods, flower- 

 ing in the spring months. Svartz. 



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