wild- HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 29? 



Leaves opposite, stem unarmed, branched ; flowers headeJ-umbelled, leafless. 

 Stem shrubby, a fathom in height, angular, somewhat rugged ; branches sub-divided, 

 almost upright, rugged, quadrangular; branchlets quadrangular, grooved, strict, hirsute, 

 dark green ; leaves on long petioles, decussated, spreading, ovale, acuminate, serrate, 

 nerved, hirsute. Flowers terminating ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, solitary, an- 

 gular, grooved, hirsute ; bractes broad-lanceolate, concave, entire, pubescent. Calyx 

 three-toothed, minute, the hinder tooth larger ; corolla funnel-form ; the tube and bor- 

 der at first pale sulphur-coloujed, changing to saffron, light red, and pale crimson; 

 tube round at the base, gibbous, widening towards the throat ; border four-cleft ; nearly 

 equal ; hinder segment almost upright, sub-cordate ; lower border, emarginate in the 

 middle ; the lateral ones entire, spreading, waved at the edge ; throat contracte I ; an- 

 thers minute, whitish ; germ oblong ; st\ le shorter than the tube ; drupe the size of red 

 currants, black green, with a nauseous smell ; nucleus two-celled. Swartz. This has 

 much the same virtues as sage but of a more active nature, containing as we'll as the fol- 

 lowing species a large share of resin. 



5. INVOLUCRATA. INVOLUCRED. 



Periclymemim rectum, salvia folio rugoso minore bullato, /lore albo. . 

 Sloane, v. 2, p. 81, t. 194, f. 2. Frulescens, Joliis cordato ovatis, 

 floralibus orbiculatis ; fioribus sub-carneis, Browne, p. 268, L. 3. 



Leaves opposite, and tern, rhomb-ovate, blunt, wrinkled, tomentose ; stem un- 

 armed, heads squarrose, bractes ovate. 



Stem round, woody, branched, scarcely hairy, (Sloane says smooth and seven feet 

 high). Branches opposite ; leaves petioled, scarcely crenate, membranaceous, rigid, 

 less wrinkled than in the others above, nerved beneath, tomentose ; leaves seldom or 

 never in threes ; peduncles short. Spikes rounded ; bractes large, sessile, cordate 

 ovate, with six or more nerves running in right lines from the centre, all a little exca- 

 vated their whole length, and tomentose ; calyx very small, whitish ; flowers of the 

 same colour as the trijoliu, but the yellow colour of the throat soon changes to white. 



6. ACULEATA. PRICKLY. 



Frutescens spnwaa, foliis ampl/oribus subrotundo ovatis, pedunculis 

 1, ngissimisjfloribus kermesinis, Browne, p. 269, L. 4. 



Leaves opposite, ovate, sub-cordate, softish underneath ; stem prickly ; bractes 

 of the heads hnear wedge-form. 

 Stem ten feet high, an inch and a half thick from top to bottom, armed with long, 

 stron", reflex, prickles, or rather thorns, for they cannot be torn off without injuring 

 the wood. Leaves ovate or cordate oblong, wrinkled rugged, crenate. Peduncles long 

 with fewer and shorter prickles. Colour of the tube of the corolla red ; bonier lemon- 

 coloured, changing into an orange and sometimes deeper colour. Medicus. Drupe 

 berried, soft,, ovate, dark, very smooth, shining ; flesh pulpy, thin ; stone bony, like a 

 grape seed, thick and blunt above, with two lateral lobules verging downwards, 

 elongated below into a compressed conical beak ; three-celled, the two upper cells fer- 

 tile, the lower void ; seeds single ob-ovate, remarkably acuminate downwards, com- 

 pressed a little, white with a brown area at top. Gartner. 



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