WmTfc- HOItTUS J AMATCENSIS, 377 



W > > 1 very hara an I yhite, c trere I with a grey snaootS bark ; leaves alternate, two 

 t b-s 1112;, and one uila half broad near the round buss; even, shining, with very 

 few up larent vein* on the surface, without an) in lentures in the edges, 011 a footstalk. 

 one-thirt of an inch in length. Flo vers white, iu r ce'mes opposite to a leaf. 



2. oCCiDFN'TAI.H. WESTERN. 



Flowers iii lateral racemes ; leaves perennial, without glands, obljng, acumi- 

 nate, entire, sm /oth on Ijotli aiaes. 



Whis See Fct.ze 



White Cedar See 'V-n^-V/nnp. 



White-Mastic See ua^tai d Lu^lv-T::ee. 



WEST-INDIA TE \. CAPRARIA. 



Cl. 14, cr. 2. Didynamia angiospermia Nat. o.t Personatte. 

 Gen. Char. See Goat- Weed, p. 3-7. 



BIFLORA. TWO-FLOTWERFD. 



The specific characters have already been -given under the mme Goat wee I, whTe 

 it was omitted to be noticed that this plant had receive I tii~ nam if Vest F 1 lia- I' 1 ; 

 as according to Long and Barham, the leaves; not only resemble those of Tea, but 

 make art equally agreeable decoction, which is also recommen led asan exe fllent fe >ri- 

 fuge. This plant is very common every where in the Savannas, and Kout the towns. 

 What Barham says of it mav- not be thought unentertaining. A Frenchman, >a.s he, 

 captain of a ship, affirmed to me, as we were walking about pin town ol St. J'ago ,le ia 

 Vega, and observing this plant growing so plentifully, tha' it was ir.e same as the tea- 

 plant of China ; that he had live 1 in that part of the world manv years, had sef'n large 

 fields of it, and the manner of culli\ iti i_; it, and all the dilference \as. that tn< j C i- 

 nese plant was larger, which he ascri ed to their care and culture of it ; and had no 

 doubt but the .Jamaica plant, if it was set in rich ground, and attended with equal care, 

 would improve in size. They are however very lirTerent plants. Barham mentions a 

 gentleman who n>'ver drank any other than the West-India Tea ; and tnat although ne 

 could not coil up the leaves so dext. rously as thev do in Cnina, yet he perfoniie 1 this 

 operation tolerably well ; and every person whom he regaled with it, extolled it as the 

 very best green tea they ever drank in the<r ives it is certainly unknown to what 

 perfection it might be brought, if reclaimed fro ru its wiid state, an. I cultivated in the 

 rich sjiI of gardens ; and it well deserves the experiments of the carious. 



WHITE-THORN. TVnCROCNEMUM. 



Cl. 5, or 1. Pehtarutria movogyn'a. NaT. or. Contort*. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one- leafed superior perianth, turbinate five-rtoothed, perma- 

 nent ; corolla one petaled, bell -shaped ; st; mens five awl-shaped filament uith ovate 

 anthers , the pisih has an inftiior tonka, germ, a simple style, and thickish two- 



lobed 



