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Tiiis grows from twenty to thirty feet high, having a white wool an 1 brown baHs ; the 

 branches grow straight up, having a great many leaves, almost like those of an a] 

 tree, standing without order on half-inch pedicels ; the flowers arc many, standing 

 reund the ends of the branches, in panicles ; they are whitish, and when rubbed sm II 

 very sweet, as do the leaves and all parts of the plant. Ii grew in Two Mile Wood. 

 Sloan/!. It is common in all the lowlands about Spanish Town and Kingsl in ; where it 

 grows inashrubby form, and seldom exceeds seven or eight feet in height, hut dies after 

 a few years. Ail its parts are of uu active warm nature, and have a pretty agreeable 

 smell. Browne. 



3. LUCIDUM. LUCID. 



Ejection glabrum, foliis ovati.soppositisveltern.itis, spicis terminalibus. 

 Browne* p. 347, C. 6. 



Leaves ovate, smooth ; flowers in spikes ; styles many-cleft, depressed-pubescent, 

 becoming shrubby. 

 Calyx of the male ten-leave. 1, imbricate, hirsute within ; no corolla ; stamens twelve : 

 calyx of the females five-leaved ; germ hirsute ; styles three, six-parted. Tins seldom 

 rises above three feet, it is pretty simple towards the root, and divides into three or 

 four simple branches towards the top ; the leaves are oval and pointed both ways. It is 

 frequent in St. Elizabeth's. 



4. HUMILE. HUMBLE. 



Fruticulosum minus, foliis villosis cordato-aewninatis, raviulis gracili- 

 bus glabris. Browne, p. 347, C. 2. 



Leaves cordate, very entire, scabrous, sub-ciliate, tomentose beneath, stem 

 shrubby. 



This is a shrub two feet high ; with a smooth branching stem ; the branches hoary at 

 the end. Leaves alternate, rufous, clammy, with warts, terminated by minute white 

 hairs, contiguous at the base ; petioles somewhat hairy. Spikes terminating,- erect, 

 male flowers above five to seven, smaller, whitish ; calyx five-leaved, leaflets hoary ; pe- 

 tals five white, equal to the calyx ; filaments from twenty to twenty-four, anthers com- 

 pressed, whitish ; females below, larger, greenish ; calyx five-leaved, leaflets tomentose 

 or hoary ; no corolla ; germ three grooved, hirsute ; styles three, contiguous to the base, 

 white, four-parted to the middle ; stigmas first white, then rufescent ; capsule tricocous, 

 somewhat hirsute ; seeds roundish. The smell of the whole herb is strong and balsa- 

 mic Swartz. The small .tea-side balsam is common in the Savannas about Kingston ; 

 it is very hot and pungent upon the palate, and frequently used in baths and fomenta- 

 tions for nervous weaknesses. Browne, p. 347, C. 2. 



5. FLAVENS. YELLOW. 



Fruticulosum et villosum, foliis cordato acuminatis, ramulis crassioribus 

 foment osis. Browne, p. 347, C. 3. 

 Leaves cordate oblong, very entire, tomentose on both sides, bianchlets more 

 closely tomentose. 



The Yellow Balsam is common in the Savannas about Kingston, and rises frequently 

 to the height of two or three feet, it is pretty much like the humile, both in size and ge- 

 neral form, but is easily distinguished by the thickness of its extreme branches, which, 



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