#7<* H-ORTUS JAMAICENSIS. water. 



round, smooth, sheathing at the base, producing the scape in the middle from a lateral 

 sheath. Scape short, terminating by a loose, spreading, many-flowered, spike. Flow- 

 ers alternate, approximating; under which one common ovate-cordate, blunt, open, 

 spathe. Corolla salver-shaped six-cieft, after flowering sexpartite, almost regular, 

 blue ; three of the segments exterior, dot-ted, somewhat rough-haired ; the middle one 

 superior, wider, ovate; fil merits six; anthers incumbent, hastate at the base ; germ 

 three-si led ; style long' r than t he stamens; stigma thickened. Swartz. The round- 

 leaved water-plantain grows in most of the lagoons and rivers about the Ferry, the 

 leaves are roundish, thick and smooth ; the flowers moderately large; and the stalk 

 abotitan inch in diameter; it grows very luxuriantly, and throws up its flower-spike 

 good way beyond the surface of the water. Browns. 



2. I. iu OS 4. MUDDY. 



Nymphaa affinis palustria, plantagims aquaffc/r folio, fa ve beta petal* 

 stellari cwruleo, Sloane, v 1, p. 253. t. 149, f. l. 

 Leaves cordate-ovate, scapes lateral, one-flowered, flowers triandrous. 



This is onl . a few inches in lit ight. Roots long, jointed, with whitish capillar} - ag- 

 gregate libres at the joints ; leaves radical, emarginate at the base, bui scarcely cordate, 

 entire, smooth, nerveless, an inch in. length. Petioles sheathing at the base, longer 

 than the leaves, fistular, round, smooth ; from which issues, in a cleft or lateral sheath, 

 a scape which is an inch long, round, naked, one-flowered. Spathe lanceolate, one- 

 valved, one-flowered; corolla blue; tube narrow, cylindrical, inclosed within the 

 spathe ; border equal, six-parted ; segments lanceolate ; the three upper ones all of the 

 same blue colour ; the three inner ones having a \ el low spot at the base near the throat : 

 filaments three, inserted into the throat *>f -the tube, short; anthers sagittate, erect, 

 blue, above the tube ; germ oblong, cylindrical ; style t re( t, die length oi the tube and 

 the stamens; stigmas si\-, n icar, vilfose ; capsule elongate I, round, acuminate, within 

 the spathe, three-celled, three-valved, three grooved ; seeds very many, small, round- 

 ish, brown. This species is very distinct by its one- flowered scape and sp the. Na- 

 tive of Jamaica and Hispaniola, on the muddy banks of rivers. .buurlz. It grows also -, 

 in Savannas where the water has stood. 



WATER-PLANTAIN, GREAT. ALISMA. 



Cu 6, or 5. Hexandria polygyria. Nat. or T>i[>etaloiilea:. 



Gf.n. emit. Ualvx a three- leaved perianth, leaflets ovate, concave, permanent; co- 

 rolla three-pi laled ; petals roundisn, large, flat, very spreading ; stamens awl- 

 shaped 6 laments shorter than, tne corolla, with roundish anthers ; the pistil lias 

 more than five germs, st\ les simple, stigmas obtuse; pericarp compressed capsule^ : 

 seeds solitary, small. 



CO'DIFOI.'A HEART-I*AVED. 



Foliis lunnulafo sagittatis venosis, fcapo assutgenti ramoso, angulate 

 su.cato , ramulis ternalis, verticiUuto-verticiUatis. Browne, p. '2V4. 

 Leaves heart-shaped, obtuse, flowers twelve- stamened, capsule hook-pointed. 

 This plant grows vcr\ tomuion in all ihe stagnated waters. aU/ui the Ferry, and rises 



generally 



