218 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. swallow 



1. G1GANTEA. GIGANTIC. 



Fnttcscens inctma, foliis majoribits svbrotundis, petiolis brcvissimis, 

 floribus umbellatis. Browne, p. 182, A. 1. 

 Leaves ovate-oblong, petioles very short, segments of the corolla reflex, invo- 

 lute. 

 This rises six or seven feet in height, the leaves opposite, thick, downy, flowers of a dirty 

 white colour, pods large. The nectaries do no.fc put forth awl-shaped horns, hut'solid 

 converging plates. Browne calls it auricula, or French Jasmin, common in all the sa- 

 vannas about Kingston and Old-Harbour ; the trunk pretty much divided above the. 

 root, and the branches furnished, with large roundish leaves, which seem to. embrace 

 the. ii at their insertions, from the shortness of the pedicels, which are bearded at top. 

 The hark of this plant is whitish and spungy, and the leaves beset with a whitish down ; 

 the flowers 'are disposed in umbellated groupes at ihe extremities of the branches, and 

 succeeded by so many large oval follicles. This plant abounds with a milky juice, and., 

 is sometimes called French cotton. It is said to be destructive to sheep. 



2. TOMENTOSA. DOWNY. 



Scandcns villoma major, foliis et capsidis major ibus oralis. Brswiie, p, 

 183, A. 4. 

 Browne calls this the climbing asclepias, with large pods, which he found in St. Tho- 

 mas in the East, generally supported by the help of neighbouring bushes, or found 

 creeping among the rocks; the pods are smooth and oval, and seldom under two inches 

 in the transverse diameter. It has all the appearance of themechuacanna of Hernandez, 

 find do not doubt its being the same. Browne. 



3. YIMlN'Al.IS. TWIGGY. 



Apocynum fruticosum scandens, genista Hispanic* facie, floribus 

 lacteis odoralis. Sloane, v. i. p. 207, t. 131, f. 1. Funkulucea 

 Ixte scandens, foliis rarioi ibus corduto-lanceolatis floribus umbelta- 

 tisri Browne, p. 183, A. 3. 



Stem suffruticose, twining, filiform, leaves opposite, lanceolate, smooth; um- 

 bels lateral, many- flowered. 

 Hoot the size of the little finger, stem branching like the Spanish broom ; the 

 branches turn round trees and rise thirty feet high. Towards the top, at every two or 

 three inches distance, are small two inches long twigs, set opposite, each of which lias 

 two velvety leaves also opposite, from the same joint grows the peduncle supporting 

 six or eight flowers, umbel fashion, each of which has its particular peduncle, of a milk, 

 white colour. Sloane. This plant rises by slender weakly stalks, anti frequently 

 spreads itself to the distance of some yards from the main root ; it is furnished with very 

 few leaves, but has a good many flowers disposed in large umbellated groupes. The 

 whole plant is of a dark green colour, very full of milk, and common in the larger in- 

 'and woods. Browne. 



See Bastard Ipecacuanha. 



Sweet Broomwei'D Ste Liquorice; 

 Sweet Cassada - See Cassapa. 



SWEET.- 



