stinking HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 203 



ferior germ, a filiform style and bluntish stigma: the pericarp a somewhat oblong 

 capsule, narrower at the base ; seeds many, roundish. 



D ECU MB ENS. TRAILING. 



Ilerbaceum, foliis gramineis, floribus geminatis pedunculis tongissimis 

 alaribus incidentibus. Browne, p. 195. 



Hairy, with club-shaped capsules. 

 Bulb roundish, fleshy, brown, putting out fibres from the side. -Leaves radical, 

 Sheathing at the base, forming as it were a short stem, grassy, keeled, a span long, 

 recurved, sharp, striated, somewhat hairy. Peduncles radical from the sheaths among 

 the leaves, about flowering time short, but afterwards lengthened out, filiform, tvvo- 

 ed"-ed, few-flowered; spathes two-leaved, leaves small, linear, pubescent. The three 

 outer parts of the corolla lanceolate, acute, hairy on the outside, permanent; the three 

 inner smooth, yellowish, greenish on the outside, withering; stamens alternate with 

 the segment of the corolla, three longer, three shorter ; anthers saggitate ; germ oblong ; 

 style awl shaped, stigma blunt ; capsule oblong, three-cornered, crooked, rough with 

 hairs, crowned with the permanent corolla ; seeds wrinkled, black. Swarts. Browne 

 calls it the grassy leaved ornithagalum, frequent in Sixteen-Mile Walk, and many 

 ether places in Jamaica. 



Stave-Wood See Mountain Damson. 

 Stektian See Indian Cress. 



STINKING-WEED. CASSIA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Decandria monogynia. Nat. or. Lovicntacea?. 

 Gen. char. See Cane-Piece Sensitive, v. 1, p. 151, 



OCCIDENTALS. WESTERN. 



Senna occidentalis, odore opiiziroso, orobi pannonici foliis mucronatis, 

 glabra. Sloane, v. 2, p 4S. llerbueca major erecta ramosa, foliis 

 ovato aeinninatis, siliquis angustioribus compressis, spicis laxioribus 

 terminulibus assurgentibus. Browne, p. 224. 



Leaflets five pairs, ovate- lanceolate, scabrous about the edge, the outer ones 

 larger, a gland at the base of the petioles. 

 Stem from two to three feet high ; it is loose in its ramifications and well supplied 

 with Bowers, disposed in loose spikes at the extremity of the branches. The ribs on 

 which the ieaves are set, are, in almost every species of this kind, furnished with a 

 gland, which in some is placed higher, in others lower upon the shank, and in many 

 between the leaves themselves ; but in this particular sort it is situated very low, and 

 near the insertion of the rib. 



Piso say, that the juice of this plant applied outwardly, or injected, is a specific in 

 the inflammations of the anus ; and Markgraveadds, that the root is a powerful diuretic 

 and antidote: but the top is the only part that is used in Jamaica, where the plant is 

 commonly employed in ail resolutive baths, and is accounted a very powerful ingredi- 

 ent pn such occasions. Browne. 



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