fptkHia ItORTUS JAMAICENSIS, i#9 



Leaves lanccolate~e!liptic, petioled, quite entire, stem upright, peduncles di- 

 chotomous. 



Stems herbaceous, upright but not weak, entirely green, dichotomous, tender, from 

 two to three feet high, leaves acute, shining, an inch and a half Jong, few, on petioles 

 an inch in length ; peduncles terminating, upright, slender. Calyx bell-shaped, hir- 

 sute within ; petals two, roundish, quite entire, white ; cap ;ules shining, smooth, small. 

 Jacquin. The trichotomous spurge, with verticillated leaves grows very common on 

 both sides of the road between Kingston and (Turn's Bay, it is furnished with moderate- 

 ly thick branches, but seldom rises above lour feet high. Br&iSnU. 



S. MYRTIFOfclA. MVRTLE-LEAV: D. 



Leaves quite entire, roundish, emarginate, hoary underneath, flowers solitary, 

 stem upright. 



''Stem shrubby, from one to two feet high, very much branched, round, smooth; 

 branches almost filiform, long, sub-divided, thickened at. the petioles, smooth, red. 

 Leaves opposite, srnaU, the lower ones orbiculate, the upper ob-ovate, eblong, or 

 roundish, smooth, glaucous underneath, (kit, spreading, on very short red petioles. 

 Flowers minute, axillary, especially towards the ends of the brandies, on very short pe- 

 duncles ; calyx four or live toothed, hirsute within ; petals-four, thick, roundish, de- 

 pressed, yellow ; filaments two, very minute ; anthers roundish, whitish, large ; germ 

 bent-down ; styles reflex ; stigma-; simple acute. Some of the flowers are barren, and 

 have a cyHndric germ, and a single style which is long and triad at top. Native of Ja- 

 maica on cooler mountains. 'Swarlz. 



9. obliterata. obliterated. 



Leaves oblong trapezoid, serrate, pubescent, obliterated on onesidcicf the Ba3 

 Stems hirsute ; leaves attenuated at the top. 



10. PUMCF.A. SCARLET. 



Umbel quinquefid, trilid, involucels ovate, acuminate, coldured ; capsules 

 smoeth ; leaves ob-ovate lanceolate. 



This most splendid plant, by far the most beautiful of the genu-;, is the height of a 

 man, the stem shrubby, rather fleshy, fall of milky juice, round, abruptly branched ; 

 the branches curved upwards three together; the smaller branches sometimes four or 

 five together ; bark smooth, whitish, marked with spots or scars where former leaves 

 have grown. Leaves on the summits of the smaller branches, crowded together, al- 

 most sessile, spreading in ever} direction, blemish, ending in a small point, smooth, 

 opaque, dark green, glaucous underneath ; the younger ones tutfned inwards, and those 

 nearest the umbels coloured ; principal nerve of all the leaves dull yellow, and in the 

 younger ones near the umbels, it is besides stained with red ; umbels terminating, erect, 

 having five, six, or seven rays. Peduncles club-shaped, smooth, dichotomous ; involu- 

 ceis two or three together under each flower, of a most vivid scarlet ; flowers solitary, 

 turbinate, yellowish, soon turning reddish. Calyx'five-toothed ; petals five, divaricated, 

 yellow, full of very sweet pellucid honey, stamens fifteen or twenty fertile, many abor- 

 tive ; germ reflex, styles reflex, red ; receptacle occupied by chaffy branched filaments; 

 -capsule smooth. Discovered in Jamaica, but sparingly, by Mathew Waller), esq. who 

 *sent it to the late marquis of Rockingham, in 1778. Smith. This beautiful plah^ 



grow/ 



