pfciOLA HORfUS JAMAf-CENSI*. 



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DIOICA. TWO- HOUSE. 



Clcmalitis prima sire sijhestris lat (folia. Sloane, v. t, p. 197, t. 123"^_ 

 f*. l Scandensj./oliis quinquenerviis ov.ttis nitidis pinnato-tematis. 

 Browne, p. 255. 



Eeaves pinnate, leaflets cordate, climbing. 



This has slender, tough, climbing stalks, by which it rises to a considerable height ; 

 leaves trifoliate, cdrnhig out at each side of the stalk ; the leaflets are large, ovate, and 

 entire, having three or five longitudinal nerves. The peduncles are produced at the 

 same joints, close to the petioles, one on each side ; these are long, naked, and grow 

 horizontally, extending beyond the leaves before they divide and branch ; then there 

 come out three or four pairs of small foot-stalks from the large one, each of which di- 

 vides again into three smaller, each supporting a single flower , the lower pair of these 

 is extended four or five inches, the others gradually diminish to the top, so that they 

 form a pyramidal thyrse of flowers ; these are white, and are composed of four narrow 

 t>etals, which are reflected^ but the stamens all stand erect. Loureiro says there are- 

 eighty seeds disposed in a head ; they are obtusely three-cornered and compressQcl r 

 with a very long tail, fringed with many white hairs. This plant grows in many parts 

 ef Jamaica, and commonly called Pudding Willie, or Travellers Joy. The stalks are 

 generally used for withes in tying rails, cStc. Sloane says the root heated in water and 

 mixed with wine, diluted with sea-water, purges hydropic people; and that the juice 

 aud flowers beaten and rubbed on the skin takes out spots. 



No English Name. UNIOLA. 



Ct. 3, or. 2. Diandria digynid. Mat. or. Gramina?* 



Tins derives its name from the union of the glumes. 



<5f,N. char.- Calyx a many flowered, many- valved,. glume ; corolla two-valved ; sta- 

 mens three-capillary filaments, with oblong anthers ; the pistil has a conical germ, 

 . two simple styles, and pubescent stigmas; no pericarp, the corolla incloses the seed, 

 which is one, ovate-oblong. 



SPICATA. SPIKED. 



Pdm'cula spicillis longioribus et tenuwrilms distiche Jtoriferis referla.- 

 Browne, p. 136. 



Sub-spiked, leaves rolled in, rigid. 



Culm a span high with alternate-rigid leaves, it>iled in and mucronate. Panicle very 

 small, and squeezed so close that there is scarcely any sign of pedicels, all directed 

 one wa\ ; calyx and glumes keeled, with four florets. I^inneus. This plant is com- 

 mon in the low-lands about the Angels, rising generally twelve or fourteen inches high ; 

 it is remarkable for the length ana slenderness of its delicate flower spikes ; the leaves 

 of the cup are very small, and stand in an alternate and distinct order upon the con - 

 nion supporters. Browne. Browne also mentions another species, which he calls iuc 

 larger long penciled Uniola, sometimes met within the hills above Bull-Bay, rising 

 kccei'ectj^a.nd furnished with many flower-spjkeg for awd than half its length, these 



