%'} HORTUS JAMAICENSIS, wiu>- 



Leaves silky underneath. 

 Browne calfs this the lesser amomum with a foliated stalk, found every where in the 

 woods of Jamaica, and the same as the East Indian plant : It grows from a fleshy root, 

 and shoots by a simple foliated stalk to the height of three or four feet, and then termi- 

 nates in a handsome, sub-sessile, solitary, erect, flower, spike. The calyx is g:een wilh 

 a purple tip, in the flower, but in the fruit blood-red ; petal and nectary flesh-coloured, 

 or white. Seeds black, without smell, but having an unpleasant taste ; there is a white 

 fungous substance adhering to the base by which the seeds are connected together. Tha 

 roots of this plant are sometimes used as ginger, but are not so good. 



WILD-HOPS. CLINOPODIUM. 



Cl. 14, on. 1. Didynamia gymnospermia. Nat. or. Verticillat*. 



Gen. char. Calyx involucre many bristled, length of the perianth, placed beneath 

 the whorl ; perianth one-leafed, cylindric, very slightly incurved, with a two-lipped 

 mouth ; upper lip wider, rrifid, acute, reflected ; lower lip divided, slender, in- 

 flected ; corolla une-petaled, ringent, tube short, gradually widened into the 

 throat ; upper lip erect, concave, obtuse, emargiuate ; lower lip trifid, obtuse ; mid- 

 dle segment wider emarginate ; stamens four filaments, under the upper lip, of 

 which two are shorter than the others, anthers roundish ; the pistil has a four-parted 

 germ ; style filiform, the same situation and length with the stamens ; stigma sim- 

 ple, acute, compressed ; no pericarp ; calyx contracted round the neck, gibbous 

 round the body, containing the seeds, which are four ovate. One species is a na- 

 tive of Jamaica. 



CAPITATUM. I1EAED. 



Sideritis fpiaila scrophulariie folio, flare albo, spicis brevihus habiti~ 

 oribiis rotundis, pediculis insidentibus. Sloane, v. I. p. 174, t. 109, f. 

 2. Subhirxuium, foliis crenatis utrinque acuminatis, fioribus cofu 

 globatis .peduncuUs longis alaribus incidentibus. Browne, p. 259. 



Leaves flat, smooth, heads axillary, peduncled. 



Jacquin makes this p. ant a distinct genus, under the name Hyptis, from the inverted 

 form of the corolla, and thus describes it : Stems 'sufFrutivOse two or three feet high ; 

 from which issue herbaceous steins, quadrangular, roughish, two feet high ; branched ; 

 leaves opposite, pelioled, ovate, but with the base acute, veined, unequally serrate, 

 both sides appearing hairy with a magnifier, deep green ; the lower ones wrinkled, the 

 the largest seven inches long. Peduncles solitary, quadrangular, slender, when full 

 grown two or three niches long, bearing at the top numerous dowers ; collected into a 

 close semi-globular head, supported at bottom by an involucre of many lanceolate lea- 

 flets. Calyx somewhat hispicf, corolla while with a tinge of flesh-colour, tube some- 

 what hairy on the outside, but the back of the helmet more so ; border spreading much, 

 often reflex, and inverted, upper lip trifid, lower (which is uppermost by the inversion 

 of the corolla) semibifid. The whole plant is inodorous. Jacquin. The seeds are 

 small, black, and shining. Barnaul calls this plant Iron-wort, from the figure of its 

 leaves, and says it has a specific quality to heal all wounds and stop all fluxes of the 

 blood and other humours j and that a decoction of it with honey, (and a little alum) 



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