30* HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. winter- 



tooth wider ; petals unequal, the two upper ones larger ; nectary a reflex scale, within 

 the prominent part of ihe calyx ; stamens twelve, unequal by insertion, eight co- 

 ordinate a.nd of the same shape, four smaller in two rows, the two upper ones villose ; 

 anthers roundish ; capsule oblong, one-celled, covered by the calyx, cloven along with 

 it, and then boat-shaped ; the receptacle with the unripe seeds, coming forth and rising, 

 in order to ripen the seeds in the open air. Linneus and Browne. 



4. CIUATUM. CII.1ATE. 



Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, smooth, ciliated; racemes terminating, flower* 

 mostly pointing one way, ten-stamened ; stem shrubby. Sw. 



WINTER-BERRY. PRIXOS. 



Cl. 6, or. 1. Ilexandria moncgynia. Nat. 09.'.* uuffto'snt. 



Gt'N. nun. Calvx six-cleft ; corolla one petaled, wheel -shaped ; stamens six fila- 

 ments, with oblong anthers ; the pistil has an, ovate; germ, ending in a style and 

 obtuse stigma; berry roundish, six-seeded ; seeds solitary. Swartz uncovered one 

 species in Jamaica. 



MONTANA. MOUNTAIN. 



Leaves ovate-serrate, shining on both sides. 

 Trunk from twenty to thirty fee} high, with an even brown bark ; branches sub- 

 divided, almost upright, round, smooth ; loaves alternate, acuminates! I oth end--, serrate 

 en the whole margin, serratures remote, acute, nerved, smooth, an inch and a half long, 

 stiffish, when dried of a dark livid colour. Petioles short, round, s;;iooth. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, shorter than the leaves, half an inch long, filiform, ewnrrp da little, 

 three-flowered or three-parted ; pedicels one-flowered ; Bowers small, white : calyx six- 

 cleft ; segments small, ovate, convex ; corolla divided almost to the base into six parts; 

 segments (State-lanceolate, spreading, bent back at the tip ; filaments- iiis< rted b< tkeen 

 the divisions of the corolla ; anthers roundish, bifid at the base ; ge'nd roundish; superior ; 

 style very short, thick, permanent; stigma suh-capi irate, depressed; roiled back at the 

 edge, snVscxrid. Berrry I Imrtly six-cornered, small, umbilicated with the stigma, black 

 when ripe ; seed oblong, compressed, shining black. Native of Jamaica in coppices on 

 the highest mountains. Sward. 



WINTER-CHERRIES. PHYSAL1S. 



Cl.. 5, or. 1. Pcntaiidria mcnogy.nia* Nat. or. Luridtv. 



This generic name is derived from the; Greek word for bladder, the calyx being 

 much inflated. 



Gen. char. Calyx aone-leafed perianth, ventricose, h f five-deft, small, five-cor- 

 nered, with acuminate segments, permanent : corollaone pi taled wheel-shaped ; tube 

 ' very short, border hajf live-cleft, urge, plaited ; si gniei.is wide, acute : stamen^ five 

 I awl-shaped lilamei is, vny small, ( on\ lergjng ; anther? erect, Converging ; the pistil 

 has a roundish germ, a filiform style generally longer than thestarneiu ; and blunt stiu^ 



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