three. HORTUS JAMAiCENSTS; && 



there is an account in Gerard, of a gentlewoman in Colchester, who was so burnt with 

 lightning as to be thought past ail relief, but was cured byan ointment made of the 

 leaves of tliis plant. I hate known it experimental! v cure contracted tendons or nerves, 

 by chaffing or rubbing in the ointment hot into the part affected. It hath a thin green 

 stinking leaf, smelling almost like opium, and much indented ; it branches and spreads 

 like a little tree ; the stalks.are of a pale-green ; it hath a long tubical white flower, 

 after which comes its fruit, which is oblong, and in shape and bigness of a walnut with 

 its green shell, set full of soft prickles while green, but when dry are able to penetrate 

 into the flesh ; these contain a vast quantity of small black seeds, like the papaver spi- 

 7io sum, and of a stupifying quality. I know a gentleman at this present time, that, 

 whenever he hath a fit of the gout, applies these leaves to the part, and it gives ease 

 in about three hours. The leaves, applied to the head, ease pain and cause rest. 

 Jtarham, p. 19:2. . 



Three Heart's Shrub See Wood Sorrel. 



THREE-HORNED SHRUB. TRICERA. 



Cl. 21-, or. 4. Menoecia tetrandria. Nat. or. Trhecc<c. 



This is so named from its three-horned capsule. 



Gen. char. Male calyx a one-leaved perianth, four-parted to the base ; segments 

 lanceolate, acute, erect, permanent, coloured : no corolla : stamens four erect 

 filaments, longer than the calyx, ovate, anthers sitting on the top of the filaments, 

 lanceolate, ucute, channelled in the middle, after flowering recurved. Female 

 calyx a five-leaved perianth ; leaflets ovate, acute, erect, coloured: no corolla: 

 the pistil has a sub-trigonal germ ; three short styles, roundish, conical, after 

 flowering bipartile; stigmas longer than the styles, recurved, patulous, channelled, 

 permanent ; the pericarp an oblong trigonal capsule, three horned, three-celled, 

 three-valved : seeds in pairs, oblong, obtuse. There is only one species, which 

 is a native of Jamaica ; the crantzia hxvigato of Swartz. 



L.EVIGATO. SMOOTH. 



This is a branching shrub, two or three feet high ; branches almost simple, Iontj, 

 (Spreading, four-cornered, leafy, even : leaves on short round petioles, opposite, di- 

 stich, ovate- lanceolate, acute, convex, quite entire, 'veined above, marked with lines 

 at the edge, veinless beneath, stiffish, very smooth. Flowers in simple, axillary, op- 

 posite, umbels ; the common peduncle four-coraered, three times shorter than the 

 ieaves. Of the males there are from four to eight opposite pedicels, approximating in 

 formof an umbel, aquarterof an inch long, one-flowered, deciduous. There are two very 

 -small whitish hi actes at the base and in the middle of the pedicels. Female flower 

 'larger, styles three, sometimes, but rarely, four; capsule of the size of a large pea, 

 the valves bursting with a spring; seeds black, shining, girt with a membranaceous 

 white aril. Native of Jamaica in mountain coppices in the western parts, flowering 

 in the spring months. This genus should be placed between cicca and buxus : It is 

 very nearly allied to the fatter ; but differs in having no corolla, in the form of the fila. 

 wents and stigmas, and in the aril of the seed j also in its peculiar inflorescence. .fan, 



THYME, 



