280 HORTUS JAMATCENSIS. Wirt 



Brown? oa'U this fh Seaside R?ed, which he found below Oxford, in the parish of 

 St. Thoi a> in the Fast, seldom rising above three and a half feet, growing in dry San- 

 dy piacea near the sea. 



See Bamboo. 



Wild-Carrot See Celandine. 

 Wild-Cassada See Cassada. 

 Wild-Cinnamon See Cinnamon, Wild. 

 Wild-Clove See Bayuekry. 



WILD-CUCUMBER. 1VIELOTHRIA. 



Cl. 3, or. 1. Tria.idria monogynia. Nat. or. Cucurbitc.ce<e. 



Gen. ch\r. Calyx a one-leafed, bell-shaped perianth, ventricose, five- toothed, 

 superior, deciduous; corolla one-petaled, wheel-shaped : tube the length of the ca- 

 lyx, and fastened ail round to it ; border five-parted, flat ; segments broaaeroutwards, 

 verv blunt ; stamens three conical filaments, inserted into the tube of the corolla, 

 and of the same length ; amhets twin, roundish, compressed : the pistil has an ovate- 

 oblong germ, acuminate, sub-inferior; style cylindric the length of the stamens; 

 stigmas three, thickish, oblong ; the pericarp an ovate-oblong berry, internally 

 without the partitions three-parted : seeds several, oblong) compressed. There 

 is only one species, which is a native of Jamaica. 



pendula. pendulous. 

 Cucumis minima fructu oval: nigi e Itevi. Sloane, v. 1, p. 227, t. 142, 

 f. 1. Scandens, joliis obtuse tr angularibus sub -c re nat is fructu gla- 

 bro Browne, p. 121. 

 Stem slender, mounting by clavicles, or running along the ground for five or six 

 feet. Leaven, flowers, and clavicles come out together. The leaves a:e on inch long- 

 pedicels, roundish, triangular, a little auriculated, an inch and half long and as much 

 bropd : thev are rough and harsh to the touch, somewhat sinuated about the ed^es, and 

 of a dark green colour. The clavicles are very tender. Peduncle axillary solitary, bris- 

 tle shaped, one-flowen 1 ; flower yellow. Fruit the size and shape of a nutmeg, smooth, 

 blackish when ripe, and full of small white seeds, like other cucumbers, lodges within 

 an insipid cooling pulp, h grow s by hf dges and ditches, and the ftuit is eaten pickled 

 whet) green, and is good when fullj ripe Sioeme. Browne says the plant is nearly 

 allied to cucumis, from which it is distinguished only by its hermaphrodite Bowers. 

 Swartz saj .. that <t . Uvays appeared to him to be monoecious, which would only make it 

 differ from thai, ^enus in having a berried i'uiit, 



.!> e Cucumber. 



WILD-G1NGFR. ALPINLA. 



Cl. 1, OR. 1. Afenandria monogynia. Nat. or. Scitamineer. 

 So named after Prosper Aipinus, a famous physician and botanist. 



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