296 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. wild- 



WILD-SAGE. VARRONIA. 



Cl. 5, OR. I. Pentandria monogynia. Nat. or. Asperifolia. 



So mimed from Marcus T. Varro, the most learned of the Romans. 



Gen. CHAR Calyx a one-leafed tubular perianth, five-toothed, teeth recurved, 

 permanent ; corolla one-petaled, tubular, cylindric ; border five-parted, spreading ; 

 stamens five-awi-shaped filaments, length of the corolla; stigmas four, bristle- 

 si. uped ; pericarp an ovate drupe, one-celled, inclosed by the calyx, free j seed a 

 four celled roundish nut. Three species have been discovered in Jamaica. 



1. LIXEATA. LINEAR. 



Periclymenum rectum salvi.e Jbliis majoribw; obhngis mucronaiis 



subtus villosis altcrnatim sitis /lore et fructu minoribus. Sloane, v. 



2, p. 83, t. 194, f. 3. Fruticosa foliis rugosis ovatis sub-hirsutis ser* 



ratis alternis, capitulis subrotundis. Browne, p \~2, t. 13, f. 2. 



Leaves lanceolate, marked with lines ; peduncles lateral, growing to the petiole, 



spikes globular. 



Browne says this plant seldom rises above three or four feet Sloane describes it as a 

 tree, with a whitish wood and blackish bark. The leaves are lanceolate, attenuated at 

 both ends, on small pedicels, and indented about the edges, whitish underneath, 

 where they are somewhat woolly. The brandhesare slender, crooked, and intermixed ; 

 the peduncles are axillary, supporting many flowers in bunches, 



2. CURRASSAVICA. CURACOA. 



Peridymenum rectum, sahite folio rugoso majore oblongo bullato, fiirs 

 albo, fructu iongwre. Sloane, v. 2, p. 81. Assurgens sarmentosa, 

 foliis et capitulis oblongis. Browne, p. 172, V. 2. 



Leaves lanceolate, spikes oblong. 

 Stem shrubby, a fathom in height, upright ; branches and branchlets rugged ferru- 

 ginous. Leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate, rounded at the base, having a blunt point 

 at the end, sub-serrate, nerved, wrinkled, rugged above, tomentose beneath. Spikes 

 terminating, upright, an inch long. Peduncle short (on the branchlets) thick ; flowers 

 clustered, sessile, biggish, white ; calyx inferior, bell-shaped, somewhat ventricose, 

 slightly five cornered ; corolla longer than the calyx ; filaments from the middle of the 

 tube, hirsute at the base, anthers ovate ; style longer than the corolla, cloven to the mid- 

 dle, and the two segments cloven, thickish at the tip ; drupe roundish, placed on the 

 calyx and half covered by it, scarlet, one seeded. Swartz. Sloane says the plant rises 

 frequently ten or twelve feet, having a very handsome head, known in many parts of 

 Jamaica by the name of Jack in the bush. 



3. BULI.ATA. STUDDED. 



Leaves ovate, veined, and wrinkled, spikes globose. 

 This is a shmb, a fathom in height, warted ; with round rough-haired branches; 

 leaves petioled, alternate, scattered, acuminate, doubly serrate, rugged ; flowers clus- 

 tered in little roundish balls ; peduncles terminating and axillary, shorter than the 

 leaves, rugged ; corollas small, white, larger than the calyx, the five parts obtuse, cre- 

 nate, erect ; calyx bell-shaped ; anthers whitish, bifid at the base ; germ superior ; 



drupe 



