wake-robins HORTUS JAMAICENSI3 365 



OBTOSA. BLUNT. 



Foliis capillaceis ramosis, scapo assurgenti nudo superne ramoso. 

 Browne, p. 119. 

 Nectary bent in, obtuse, sub-emarginate. 



Roots capillary, branched, whitish ; leaves floating, furnished with small ovate blad- 

 ders ; scape from two to three inches long, filiform, erect, simple, sometimes divided 

 at top, naked, smooth ; flowers terminating, alternate, three or four, small, yellow, on- 

 long one-flowered peduncles. Tube of the corolla very short, cylindrical ; upper lip 

 ovate, convex, entire ; lower a little smaller, ovate, the orifice closed ; nectary scarce- 

 longer than the lip, conical ; palate orange streaked with purple : filaments inserted in 

 the aperture of the tube, sabre-shaped ; anthers roundish, growing to the inner side of 

 the filaments, one-cellt"! ; n roundish ; style very short and thick ; stigma funnel- 

 form, oblique, one-! i iped ; capsule roundish ; seeds compressed, membranaceous at 

 the side. Native of Jamaica in marshy rivulets, flowering tin- whole summer. Swartz. 

 Browne says this elegant little plant is very common in ail .1 waters about 



the Ferry, ami in the parish of St. George, seldom rising above four inches, and bear- 

 ing a beautiful succession of small yellowish flowers. 



WAKE- ROBINS ARUM. 



Cl. 20, or. !). Gynandria polyandii.t. Nat. or. Piperita. 

 Gen. char. ^-&?e Cocoas, v. \,p. 211. Besides those species described under their 

 respective names, the following are natives of Jamaica. 



1. BlACr.OUIHZON. I.ONG-ROOTI P. 



slcaule ma jus sylvestre, rad'ee bb'longa fib rata, foliis amplioribus cor- 

 datis. Browne, p. 3:33, A. 9. 



Leaves peltate cordate, repaid, two- parted at the base. 



The spathe of this species is patent, reflected, the spadix is much longer and entirely 

 covered witli flowers, divi led into squares, each square containing one flower; each Himi r 

 consisting of four stamens, which aretrigonal, and surrounding one quadrigonal germ. 

 Browne calls it the large wild wake- robin, very com no i among the rocks, in naiv parts 

 of Jamaica; the leaves large, and rising immediately from a thick lengthened root. 



2. HF.DF.RACFUU. IVY-LFAVED. 



Scandcns foliis cordatis, petiolis rotundis. Browne p. 333, A. 1 1. 

 Radicant; leaves cordate, oblong, acuminate ; petioles round. 



3. i.lNC;i'L.ATTM. TONGUK-LRAVF.D. 



Phyllitidi scan-eiiti, ajjinis minor graminjifolia folio chlongo aannir.a- 

 to, foliorum pediculis dlis ettantibus auct'S Sioane, v. 1. p 7.5, t. 

 27, f. .2 Ttnuc scandens, Joins oblong is, petwlis alaiis amplexan- 

 tints. Browne, p. 333, A. 12 



Creeping; leaves cordate-lanceolate, petioles edged w"'th membranes. 

 This has a climbing stem, with alternate leaves and clavicles ; the leaves are an inch 

 and a half lo.ng and half an inch broad on half inch long pedicels, winged, embracing 

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