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t 4 8 THE NATURAL HISTORY 



Piftillum. Gertnen angiifium oblongum; RDmJimplex ; ftigma ampliatum 



laceratum. 



Pericarpium. Capfula longa teres bi Jocular is quadrivalvis apice quadri- 



fariam dehifcens ; futuris majoribus difcepimento oppo- 

 fitis. 



Semina. Flura fingulatim pofita. 



This plant is very common in all the fugar colonies, and feldom rifes above two 

 feet and a half from the root -, it grows in dry fandy places, and feems to thrive belt 

 in the open air j it is generally ufed in beefoms by the negroes. 



C A T O N I A (a) i . Foliis ovatis oppofitis vend tenui utrinque margini pa- 



ralleld. 



The fhruby Catonia with oval Leaves. 



Periantium. ^uadriphyllum germini incidens, foliolis orbiculatis. 

 Corolla. Nulla. 



Stam. Filament a quatuor longitudine calicis ; antherae fubrotunda* 

 Piftillum. Germen globofum calice coronatum vert ice deprejfo - } ftilus Jimplex 



longitudine calicis ; ftigma Jimplex. 

 Pericarpium. Bacca fucculata nigra coronata. 

 Semina. Bina hemifpherica cum rudimento tertii & quindoque quarti. 



This little fhrub is frequent in the road between Spanijh-town audi Sixteen-mile-walk. 



ISNARDIA? I. Foliis fefjilibus lanceolatis auritis quaji ample xantibus, oppo- 

 fitis feu verticillatis -, foribus ternatis ad alas. 

 Ammannia Foliis femi- ample x ant i 'bus caule tetragono. L. H. C. & Sp. PI. 



The larger Ifnardia with lanceolated Leaves. 



Periantium. Tubulatum breve fubventricofum, jere equale , limbo quadri-corni- 

 ^ culato ; corniculis minor i bus ereclis membrand tenui interne vejlitis 



at que adnatis. 



Corolla. Nulla, nifi membranam illam pro corolla habere vis. 



Stamina. Filajnenta quatuor inferne tubo leniter adnata, & calice breviora : 





therae fubrotwidce 



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Piftillum. Germen fubrotundam calice inclujum, ftilus brevifjimus $ fligma obtu- 



fum quaji quadrilobum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula tenuis ghbofa calice teBa £? corniculis coronata , quadri* 



locularis, feptis tenuijjimis divifa. 

 Semina. £>uam plurima minima. 



This herbaceous plant is pretty common about the ferry 5 it grows generally by a 

 fimple ftalk while young, but throws out a few branches the fecond year, and fel- 

 dom rifes above twenty-four or thirty inches in height : the ftem is commonly qua- 

 drangular, and furnifhed with Ions; lanceolated leaves without foot-ftalks whofe lobes 



fhoot obtufely backwards on either fide, by which they feem to encompafs the main 

 ftalk ; they are difpofed in an oppofite or ternate order, and embrace the flowers 

 at their infertions ; but thefe are feldom more than three together, and always join- 

 ed by fhort foot-ftalks to a common pedeftal fixed clofe to the ftalk in the bofom of 

 every leaf. 



R I V I N A 1 . Dichotoma erecfa, foliis ovato-accuminatis, Jpicis /axis late- 



ralibus afurgentibus 



(a) a Catone, authore antiquo de re ruftica. 



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