WB" HORTVS JAMAICENSIS. sf-JROi* 



Fronds pedale, pinnas pinnatifid serrulate. 

 This rises by a simple stalk to the height of two or three feet, and then divides into 

 three parts, whereof the middle is simple ; but each of the lateral divisions is again 

 parted into three simple branches of a proportionate length. It grows in the moun- 

 tains of New-Liguanea. Browne. 



See Ferns. 



SPURGES. EUPHORBIA. 



Cl. 1 1. on. 3. Dodecandria trigynia. NaT or. Trieocc&. 



Gen. char. See Eyebright, v. 1, p. 286. The following species are also natiyes 

 cf Jamaica: 



1. GI.ABUATA. SMOOTH. 



PepHsfruticosa, maritima, genicula t Sloane, v 1, p. 198. 



Unarmed, shrubby, brapched; leaves opposite, ovate, acute, smooth, quite 

 entire. 



The whole of this plant is smooth ; stem erect, unarmed, jointed, purplish ; branch- 

 es dichotomous, covered with leaves at the bottom ; leaves sessile, the length of the 

 joints, sharpish, the lower ones erect, the upper ones spreading ; stipules 

 roundish, minute, pale, eiliate. Flowers at the ends of the branchlets, axilla- 

 ry, and at the divisions, solitary, small, peduncled; peduncles shorter than the leaf ; 

 calyx smooth, the throat whitish with close villose hairs; petals five roundish ; capsule 

 nearly the size of a coriander seed, smooth, and quite even, hloane calls it the small 

 leaved sea-spurge, with whitish yellow flowers, a milky plant, which grew on the Gun 

 Cayos at Port-Royal. 



2. TITHYMAI.OIDKS. TITHYMALUS-I.IKE. 



Shrubby, leaves in a double row, alternate, ovate. 



This is a wand-like sub-erect plant, six feet high, the whole of it abounding in ft 

 white, bitterish, milky, juice. Stems numerous, round, smooth, weak, very pliant, 

 branched, the thickness of the finger, the older ones ash-coloured, the younger ones 

 green ; leaves, some obtuse, others acute, coriaceous, quite entire, petioled, deep 

 green, two or three inches long, deciduous, except on the branches, the middle dor- 

 sal nerve and the petiole augmented by a longitudinal lamella more or less waved and 

 conspicuous, at first frequently tomentose on both sides, but with the upper surface 

 very even, and the edges extremely waved ; afterwards both sides always become flat 

 and smooth. Peduncles one-flowered, short, aggregate about the extremities of the 

 branchlets, coming out principally when the plant is without leaves ; flowers void of 

 scent, of a beautiful scarlet colour, and, on account of their singular structure, per- 

 haps claiming a right to be of a distinct genus, though this species has most characters 

 the same as other euphorbiums. Calyx two-leaved, two-valved, falling off as the flow- 

 er opens ; the leaflets ovate, concave, acuminate, of the same colour with the corolla, 

 which is one-petaled, irregular, four-parted, the tipper segment sub-triangular, e- 

 marginate, obtuse, incumbent ; the two lateral ones oblong, obtuse, produced for- 



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