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nukes an elegant mouth-water and for sore throats. The juice is also said to be good 

 fat sore eyes. It is common in most parts of Jamaica, seldom rising above three feet. 

 Dr. Wright notices it under the name Wild Batchelor's B itton, he says it is an annual 

 plant, herbaceous, rising three or four feet. The leaws large, rough, serrated ; the 

 flowers small an I the seed vessels connected in a globular orbutton-like form. Tiie 

 leaves of this, beaten and applied to old and obstinate ulcers, have a very good effect. 

 The buttons, when rubbed betwixt the lingers emit a most agreeable fragrance, some- 

 what like a mixture of the oils of rosemary, lavender, rhodium, and ambergris. As the 

 plant is common in all waste lauds, large quantities might easily be gathered, and this 

 valuable perfume, or oil, obtained bv distillation. The dried pods retain their flavour 

 a considerable time, and might be sent home in tin cannistcrs or lead cases to the mo- 

 ther country. Wright. 



Wild-Indigo See Indigo. 



WILD-JASMIN. IXORA. 



Cl. 4, ou. 1. Tetrandria monogynia. Nat. or. Sldlala. 



Gen. char. Calyx a four-parted perianth, very small, upright, permanent ; corolla 

 one-petaled, funnel- form ; tube cylindric, very long, slender; border four-parted, 

 flat; divisions ovate ; stamens four filaments, above the mouth of the corolla, very 

 short; anthers oblong ; the pistil has a roundish inferior germ, a filiform style the 

 length of the tube, and a two-cleft stigma; the pericarp a roundish two-celled 

 berry ; seeds by fours, convex on one side, con.ered on the other. Three species 

 are natives of Jamaica. 



1. AMFRICANA. AMERICAN. 



Leaves in threes, lanceolate- ovate, flowers thyrsoid. 

 This rises with a shrubby stalk four or five feet high, sending out slender opposite 

 branches ; leaves opposite, six inches long, two inches and a half broad, on short foot- 

 stalks. Flowers at the ends of the branches in loose spikes, they are white and have a 

 scent like Jasmin. The coffea occidentalis is also called Wild Jasmin in Jamaica, de- 

 scribed under the articles of Coffee. 



2. FASCICULATO. BUNDLED. 



Leaves ovate-elliptic ; those of the hranchlets sub-faciated ; peduncles subtriflo- 

 rous. Sw. Pro. 30. 



3. MULTIFLORA. MANY-FLOWERED. 



Leaves lanceolate-ovate, bundled, peduncles aggregate, one-flowered, verj 

 short, berries one-seeded. Sw. Pro. 30. 



Wild-Lemon. See Savin- Trfe. 

 Wild- Liquorice. Sec Liquorice. 

 Wied-Mammee. bee Santa-Maru. 



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