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are pretty thick, rise one above the other, and seldom exceed an inch and a -half -ie 

 length, having all the flowers on the outside of them. 



No. English Name. VOLKAMERIA 



Cl. 14, or. 2. Didynamia angiospermia. Nat. or. Per sonata. 

 This was so named in memory of John George Volkamer, physician at Nuremberg. 



Gf.N. char. Calyx a one-leafed fire-cleft perianth; corolla monopetalous, ringent, 

 five-parted, segments to one side ; stamens four filiform filaments, with simple 

 anthers; the pistil has a four-cornered germ, a filiform style, and bifid stigma; 

 the pericarp, a roundish two celled, four-grooved drupe (ben v) ; seed a solitary 

 nut, two-celled two grooved. One species is a native of Jan. tic-a. 



ACULEATA. PRICKLY. 



Paliuro offinis, ligustrifolia api'nosa, Jlore monopetalo drffoimi, frueti 

 sicco subrotioido. Sloane, v. 2, p. 25, t. 166, f. 2, 3. Fruticosum, 

 spinosum ; foliis infer ioribus confertis, superioribus oppositis , pe- 

 dunculis trtpartilis, trifloris, aluribus. Browne, p. 2G2, t. 30, f. 2, 

 Clerodendrum. 



Leaves oblong, acute, quite entire; spines from the rudiments of the petioles. 



This shrub rises from six to twelve feet, freqiu ntly throwing up several stems, which, 

 from their pliability bend downwards ; it is common in Jamaica, growing in gravelly 

 soils. The bark is whitish grey. Towards the eads of the branches are many short 

 crooked prickles, opposite, at half an inch distance ; the leaves are a!sd opposite, two 

 inches and a half long, and half an inch broad in the middle, on half inch-long petioles. 

 The flowers come out from the sides of the stalk towards the ends of the tsvigs on inch- 

 long peduncles, several together, umbel fashion, not unlike the flower of the Jasmine, 

 white, with a curved tube, and purple stamens. The flower drops iff the style-, and is 

 succeeded by a berry, which Gasrtner describes as roundish, juice] , swelling into 

 four little bumps at top, four-grooved, shining, consisting of two parts, and opening 

 twowa)S. Stones (or nuts) two, cartilaginous, ob-cordate, convex oi on rked 



with a groove along the middle, flat on ihe other, smoothish, two-c led ; one seed in 

 each, ovate-oblong, convex on one side, somewhat angular on the other, fasK a 2d to the 

 base of the ceils. 



Bladder- Wort. UTRICULARIA. 



Cl. 2, or. 1. Diandria monogynia. Nat. Or. Corydales. 



So named from the Litin word for a little bottle, on account of the small appendages 

 to the root. 



Gen. char. Calyx a two-leaved perianth ; corolla one-petaled, ringent; nectary 

 horned ; stamens two very short curved in filaments, with small cohering anthei 

 the pistil has a globular germ, a filiform si vie, and conical stigma; the | ericarp u 

 globular capsule, one-celled ; seeds numerous. One species is a native of Jamaica. 



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