26* HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. walthepja* 



Stem soft, woodv, about two feet high, sending out two or ihree side branches; 

 leaves alternate, of a pale yellowish-green colour, soft and hairy ; flowers collected in a 

 close thick spike at the top of" the stem, having soft hairy calyxes, petals connected at 

 tfeeir base, small, bright yellow, spreading. 



Frnticesa purpurea foliis oblongo ovatis actiiis crenat is fioribus singularibus, mi- 

 reorjbus pedunculis fenu'oribw longiusculis This plant grew very common in the pas- 

 tures at LongvillePark : the stem was slender, purple-black in colour ; the leaves were 

 of the form of these of the four o'clock, flowers crenated about their margin in like 

 manner, and placed on verv short footstalks. From the bosom of every leaf grew a pe- 

 dice! not thicker than a horsehair, an inch long, supporting our pemapetalous flower 

 of a deep purple; the petals were expanded, their extremities serrated, from the 

 centre ot which arosean erect tube, whose extremity was divided into five filaments 

 towards the top. The cap was simple, eyathiform, semi-pentafid, and the stigma di- 

 vided into five parts. The taste was insipid, but there was a remarkable roughness 

 impressed upon the tongue, which was not caused by any astringent or binding quality 

 in the leaf, but by certain very short, stiff, bristly hairs wherewith it was covered, dis- 

 cernible only by the microscope ; they yielded some slime in chewing. As most plants 

 of this tribe are covered with like bristles in their leaves and flowers, it may induce 

 rome ina vertently to mistake that roughness above-mentioned for astringency, but I 

 know of none of the tribe endowed with any such property. A. R._ 



2. ANGUSTirOLIA. NARROW-LEAFED* 



Foliis angustis ovato-acuminatis rugosis tcrratis, fioribus confcrtis ad 

 alas. Browne, p. 276, W, 1. 



Leaves oblong-obtuse, plaited, toothed, hoary, heads subsessile. 



Stalks woody, six or seven feet high, dividing into several branches, somewhat hairy ; 

 leaves about three and a hall' inches I one and a half broad, of a yellowish green 



colour, having many veins running from the midrib, and standing on Jong footstalks. 

 Flowers very small, yellow, collected into round clusters, standing upon very short pe- 

 duncles, close to the axils. 



3. IND1CA. INDIAN. 



Foliis subrotundis undulatis serratis fioribus coiifertis alaribus. 

 Browne, p. 276, W. 3. 



Leaves oval, plaited, blunt!}' toothed, tomentose, head sessile. 

 This rises with a shrubby branching stalk to the height of eight or ten feet, and is 

 covered with soft hairs ; leaves alternate, petioled, four inches long, and two inches 

 broad in the middle, rounded at both en Is, of a yellowish green colour, very hairy and 

 soft, having several longitudinal veins ; heads axillary sessile, composed of clusters of 

 very small yellow flower*, which first peep out of their soft yellow calyxes Browne 

 says all these species are found in the lower hills of Jamaica, where they seldo j. rise 

 above four or five feet. 



WART-HfiRB See Cat-Claws. 



WATER- 



