290 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. *UJ>- 



Wild-Plantain. See Bastard-Plantain. 

 Wild-Potato k Slip. See Bindweeds. 

 Wild-Rice. See Trumpet-Reed. 



wild rosemary: croton. 



Cl. 21, or. 9. Mvnaecia monodelphia. Nat. or. Tricoccar. 

 Gen. char. Male flowers smaller than the females ; calyx a cylindric perianth, five- 

 toothed ; corollain some five-petaled, scarce longer than the calyx, oblong, obtuse : 

 nectary five glands, affixed to the receptacle, small: stamens from ten to fifteen 

 subulate filaments, connected at the base, length of the flower ; anthers roundish, 

 twin. Female flowers remote from the males, on the same plant ; calyx a many 

 leafed perianth; leaflets ovate-oblong, erect: corolla petals as in tiie males (in 

 some scarce manifest) ; the pistil has a roundish germ, three styles, reflex spread- 

 ing, length of the flower, half two-cleft ; pericarp a roundish capsule three-lobed 

 at the sides, three-celled, each of the cells two valved, size of the calyx, frequently 

 much larger : seeds solitary, ovate, large. Fourteen species have been discovered 

 in Jamaica. 



1. LINEARE. LINEAR. 



Ricino affinis odorifera fruticosa major rosimarini folio, fruclu tricocco* 

 albido Sloane, v. 1, p. 133, t. 86, f. 1. Fruticulosum ;Joliis longis, 

 angustis, subtus incanis, margine re/lexis. Browne, p. 347, C. 5. 

 C. cascarUla of Linneus. 



Leaves linear, very entire, obtuse, tomentose beneath, stem shrubby. 



This rises with a shrubby stem about six or seven feet high, sending out many side 

 branches, which are covered with a smooth bark of a yellowish white colour, and garnished 

 very closely with narrow stiff leaves near three inches long, and about one eight of an 

 inch broad, of a light green on their upper side, but their under of the same colour with 

 the bark, the midrib is furrowed on their upper side, and very prominent on the lower ; 

 the upper part of the branches divides into four or five smaller, arising from the same 

 joint, and nearly equal in length ; between these arise long loose spikes of whitish green 

 flowers. The whole plant has an aromatic odour when rubbed. Swariz remarks that on 

 the coast it has narrower leaves than in the inland parts, and that the flowers are dioe- 

 cious. Martyn. It resembles the European Rosemary pretty much, both in the man- 

 ner of its growth and the form and colour of its leaves, whence it has acquired the name 

 of Wild-Rosemary. It is frequent in most parts of Jamaica, and generally used in warm 

 resolutive baths and fomentations. Barnaul says the powder of the dried leaves is a 

 specific in the cholic, and in all cold watery undigested humours, having all the virtues 

 ff rosemary. 



2. CLABF.LLUM. SMOOTH. 



Mali folio arbor, artemisue odore, flare pentapetalo spicato. Sloane, \. 

 2, p. 30, t. 174, f. 1, 2. Fruticosum; Joliis subrotundo-ovatis, siib- 

 tus sub-incanis, alternis ; spicillis alaribus. Browne, p, 348, C. 7. 



Leaves ovate, bluntish, very entire, smooth, and even ; fruits peduncled. 



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