SS4 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. iriu>. 



f. 3. Erecta miner sub-assurgens, foliis verticillats ternatis, pedun- 

 cuiislongis, spicis oralis. Browne, p. 26-S, L. 1. 

 Leaves tern or quatern, elliptic, serrate, wrinkled above, villose beneath, stem 

 unarmed, spikes oblong, imbricated. 



Stem shrubby, branched, round, rugged ; branches upright, round, rugged. 

 Leaves petioled, three together, seldom four, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, nerved, 

 the upper surface almost smooth, beneath somewhat hirsute, hoary. Spikes peduncled 

 sub-imbricate, with lanceolate, entire, distinct, and somewhat hirsute, bractes ; when 

 young in a head, but afterwards an inch in length. Flowers pale blood-red, and not 

 changeable; peduncles axillary, opposite, solitary, the length of the leaves, striated, 

 angular, hirsute; calyx very minute, three-toothed, with the hindertooth a little longer ; 

 corolla salver-shaped, irregular; tube narrow, gibbous in the middle ; border almost 

 flat, oblique, four- cleft ; upper segment almost upright, roundish ; the lateral ones, only 

 half the size, spreading ; the lower broader, waving ; throat yellow ; ambers extremely 

 minute, brownish green ; style the length of the tube ; fruit a berried drupe, red, 

 roundish ; nucleus hard, two-celled. Swartz. Sloane says the fruit of this species is 

 more juicy than that of the others, and not unpleasant to eat. Ii grows on the banks 

 of the Rio-Cobre, near Spanish Town, and in most other places in the lowlands. 



2. ANNUA. ANNUAL. 



Periclymcniim rectum u> tica- folio hirsuto majore,fiore liaro. Sloane, 

 v. 2, p. 82, t. 195, f. 2. 



Leaves opposite and tern, cordate, rugged, stem unarmed, spikes oblong. 



This grows six or seven feet high with a shrubby stem ; the bark white and smooth ; 

 branches inclining downwards ; leaves opposite, rough, serrate, a little woolly on their 

 inner side. Peduncles, by pairs or three at a joint, sustaining thick spikes of flowers of 

 an orange or deep yellow colour. The berries turn black when ripe ami are eatable. 

 The leaves are generally used in baths and fomentations for hydropic patients. Barhani 

 says " for its great qualities it may well be called sage, having all its \ u tues. It makes 

 an excellent tea to strengthen the stomach; outwardly, the bruised herb applied like a 

 poultice, cleanses the worst ulcers, and heals wounds. The decoction is an excellent 

 bath to strengthen the limbs." 



3. STRICTA. STIFF. 



Penclymenum rectum salvia folio rugoso longo et anguslissimo. 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 84, t. 195, f. 4, 



Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acute; stem unarmed, heads roundish, 

 bractes ovate-lanceolate, squarrose. 



Stem square ; leaves very long and narrow, an inch and a half in length, and one- 

 third of an inch wide in the middle, toothed, of a dark colour above, whitish under- 

 neath, on their surface like those of sage, on very short petioles. Peduncles axillary, 

 two inches long. It grew on Mount-Diablo. Sloane. 



4. CAMAHA. 



Periclymcniim rectum urtn<e folit, flore coccineo amplo. Sloane, v. 

 2, p. 83. Fiutescens, foliis cordato ova/is, floralibus linearibus ; fio- 

 ribus croceis, pedunculis longis. Browne, p. 268, L. 2. 



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