48 THALAMIFLOn.«. 



late mucronate pubescent beneath, stem subsimple 

 pubescent. 



HAB. Little-Hope Pastures, St Andrew's. 



FL. August — September. 



Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, about 8 inches in height, 

 erect, terete, striated, pubescent, scarcely branched. Leaves 

 alternate, petiolate, lineari-lanceolate, mucronate, entire, 

 puberulous above, pubescent beneath. Raceme terminal, length 

 of the leaves : peduncle angulose, puberulous. Flowers co , of 

 a pale yellow with a tinge of purple, shortly pedicelled. Caly- 

 cine sepals externally puberulous ; the upper sepal lanceolate ; 

 the two lower ones cohering for half their length ; the two 

 lateral ones lato-falciform, veined, marked with a white mem- 

 branaceous spot, persistent. Inferior petal concave at the apex, 

 beardless to the glass ; lateral petals expanded at the apex. 

 Stamens submonadelphous : filaments white ; anthers yellow. 

 Capsule 2-celled, 2-seeded, compressed, emarginate, smooth, 

 partly covered with the persistent lateral sepals: seeds oblong, 

 pubescent, with the hilum prominent and carunculated. 



This plant is decidedly an annual. It may therefore be 

 different from the P. mucronata of Willdenow, III. 883. which 

 is described as shrubby. It is an obscure unattractive plant, 

 which may account for its having hitherto escaped notice as a 

 native of this Island. 



II. Badiera. 



Calycine sepals 5, deciduous, subequal. Petals 3, 

 slightly united at the base, with the middle one con- 

 cave and beardless. Stamens 8, monadelphous. 

 Capsule compressed, obcordate, bilocular, sulcated at 

 the margin. Seeds glabrous with a large oily arillus 

 filling the upper part of the locule. — De Cand. 



American sufFruticose plants. 



1. Badiera diversifblia. Smooth-leaved Badiern. 



Racemes short axillary, leaves ovali-oblong acu- 

 minate at both ends. 



Polygaladiversifolia, Zew??. ^m. II. 140 Browne, Jam.i. 5. 



f. 3. 4. 



HAB. Road from Flamstead to Mt Henry, Port-Royal. 

 Opposite Prospect-hill, St. Andrew's. St Thomas in the Vale. 



FL. November — January. 



A tree about 15 feet in height: branches terete, towards 

 their extremities puberulous. Leaves two inches long, and 



