wild. HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 293 



Leaves broad-ovate, acuminate, serrate-toothed, somewhat rough with hairs, 

 with one gland at the base above ; petioles the length of the leaves ; racemes 

 terminating, erect, solitary ; stem shrubby. 

 Branches smooth, scarred ; loaves approximating towards the top, broad-ovate, un- 

 equally tooth -serrate, with stellate fulvous hairs on both sides ; petioles the length of 

 the leaves. Racemes terminating, erect, an inch and half long; peduncles rough with 

 hairs ; calyxes of the females with lanc< olate, hairy, tooth-gashed, leaflets, and glandu- 

 lar teeth ; of the males smooth, coloured; germ rough with hairs. Vatel. 



11. GLANDULOSUM. GLANDULAR. 



Minus trichotomum sub-hirsutum, foil's oblongis dentatis, spiels ad di- 

 varicationes ramorum sitis. Browne, p. 346, C. 1. 

 Leaves oblong-serrate, biglandular at the base, fruits sessile. 



This plant grows in main- parts of the savannas, in Liguanea, but seldom rises above 

 sixteen or seventeen inches. The seeds are small and much used both by wild and 

 tame fowls, who pick them up every where in the fields. Browne. 



12. MACROPHYLLUM. 



Leaves cordate roundish, acuminate, entire, thick, tomentose, nerved under- 

 neath. Sw. 



1". NITENS. SI1IX1MG. 



Leaves cordate-elliptic, acuminate, almost entire, smooth, shining above, dotty 

 and silvery underneath, racemes axillary, leaves shorter, erect. Sw. 



14. LAUR1NUM. 



Leaves oblong, acute, quite entire, of some consistence, smooth ; petioles 

 rugged, they and the leaves dotted underneath; racemes a.xiiiuiy, \cry long, 

 patulous, stem arborescent. Sw. 



WILD- SAGE. LANTAXA.. 



Ci 14, cr. 2. Didynamtec angiospermia. Nat. or. Personate. 

 Gen. H ii.-- Cai\ x a one-leafed perianth, very short, converging, obscurely four- 

 th 1,1 i ilar : corolla one-petaled, nearly equal ; tube cylrno.ru-, slender, longer 



thai .ivx, rather oblique ; border flat, unequally four-clett, obtuse : stamens 



foi : . nts, very small, placed in the midst ot the tube of the corolla, very slen- 



der, il v hieh iwo are a little higher ; anthers roundish : tlie pistil nas a roundish 

 germ ; a ti :torni short style ; stigma refracted, sharp downwards like a nook, and 

 as it were obliquely growing to the tip of the style; pericarp a roundish one- 

 celled drupe ; seed a round-pyramidal three-celled nut, the lowesc cell sterne ; 

 kernels solitary oblong. Six species are indigenous to Jamaica. 



1. TRIFOLIA. THREE-LEAVED. 



Peridymcnum rectum humilius, salvia folio rugoso majore fiore par- 

 pureo,/ructu oblongo escuknio purpuree, SJoane, v. 2, p. 8_', t. 195, 



f. 3.. 



