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THE UNIVERSE HERBAL; 



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inured to the open air, and part of them may be shaken out of 

 the pots, and planted in a warm border, where, if the season 

 prove warm, they will flower and perfect their seeds ; but as 

 these will sometimes fail, it will be proper to put one or two 

 plants of each sort into pots, which should be placed in a 

 i,lass-case, where they may be screened from bad weather ; 



and from these, good sorts may always be obtained. The 



species are, 



1. Corchorus Olitorius ; Bristly -leaved Corchorus, or 

 Common Jews' Mallow. Capsules oblong, ventricose ; the 

 lower serratures of the leaves setaceous. It is an annual 

 plant, about two feet high, and dividing into several branches; 

 leaves alternate, some spear-shaped, some oval, and others 

 heart-shaped, deep green, slightly indented on their edges ; 

 flowers sessile, solitary, yellow. Native of the East and West 

 Indies, and of Africa. Rauwolf says, it is sown in great 

 plenty about Aleppo, as a pot-herb, the Jews boiling the 

 leaves to eat with their meat. It flowers in July and August, 

 and the seeds ripen in autumn. 



2. Corchorus Trilocularis. Capsules three-celled, three- 

 valved, three-sided ; angles bifid, scabrous ; leaves oblong, 

 the lowest serratures setaceous. Root annual ; stems smooth 

 iind even, erect, a foot in height, round, green ; stipules 

 setaceous, small ; leaves alternate, petiolate, marked with 

 lines, naked, the under surface scabrous, lanceolate, wave- 

 serrate. Native of Arabia. 



3. Corchorus Tridens. Capsules linear, somewhat colum- 

 nar, scabrous ; the lowest serratures of the leaves scabrous. 

 Stem smooth and even, green ; stipules three-parted, seta- 

 ceous; capsules linear, scabrous. Native of the East Indies. 



4. Corchorus .Jistuans. Capsules oblong, three-celled, 

 three-valved, six-furrowed, six-cusped ; leaves cordate, the 

 lowest serratures setaceous. Stem strong, two feet high, divid- 

 ed at top into two or three branches ; leaves on long petioles, 

 and between them several smaller leaves nearly of the same 

 form, sitting close to the branches . Flowers yellow, small, la- 

 teral, two together, on short petioles. Native of the W.Indies. 



5. Corchorus Capsularis. Capsules roundish, depressed, 

 wrinkled ; the lower serratures of the leaves setaceous. This 

 rises with a slender stalk, about three feet high, sending out 

 several weak branches ; at each joint is one leaf of an oblong 

 heart-shape, ending in a long acute point, serrate, and on a 

 short petiole. The flowers come out singly on the side of 

 the branches, to which they very closely adhere ; petals 

 emarginate. A kind of hemp is obtained from the macerated 

 stems, which is much used in China. Native of the East 

 Indies and China. 



6. Corchorus Hirsutus. Capsules roundish, woolly ; leaves 

 ovate, obtuse, tomentose, equally serrate. This shrub grows 

 to the height of a man, with many round branches, the young 

 ones villose ; leaves alternate, petioled, crenate, thickish, 

 veined, hoary underneath ; petals yellow, roundish, spread- 

 ing very much, scarcely the length of the calix ; stamina the 

 length and colour of the corolla, which is orange-coloured. 

 Native of Japan, and of the West Indies. 



" . Corchorus Japonicus. Capsules round, smooth ; leaves 

 doubly serrate. Stem shrubby, two feet high or more, smooth ; 

 petiole a line in length; flowers terminating, solitary, on short 

 peduncles ; corolla dark yellow, or orange-coloured. Native 

 of Japan, where it is cultivated for the elegance of its flowers, 

 which come forth in February, and the following months. 



8. Corchorus Hirtus. Capsules oblong ; they and the 

 stem hairy; leaves oblong, equally serrate. Root annual; 

 stem upright, round, branched, especially at top, from two 

 to three feet high ; leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute, finely 

 serrate, on short petioles, somewhat hairy, wrinkled on both 



sides ; flowers without scent, axillary, peduncled, solitary 

 or in pairs ; calicine leaflets hispid, spreading very much, 

 Hut, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, yellowish-green ; petals 

 yellow, shorter than the calix, spreading much, very blunt, 

 narrowed a little towards the base; seeds black, angular, 

 small. Native of the West Indies. 



9. Corchorus Siliquosus. Capsules linear, compressed, 

 two-valved ; leaves lanceolate, equally serrate. It is an her- 

 baceous plant, but branched like a shrub, with a round 

 smooth stem, and alternate, upright, pubescent branches ; 

 leaves petioled, alternate, small, nerved, smooth, with smaller 

 leaves in the axils ; stipules subulate, opposite. Native of 

 the West Indies ; where it flowers almost the whole year, 

 though only from June till August in England. It is very 

 common in dry places in all the sugar colonies, seldom rising 

 above two feet and a half high, and is generally used for 

 besoms by the negroes. 



10. Corchorus Tetragonus. Leaves ovate-cordate, cre- 

 nate; capsules four-cornered, reflected at the points. Height 

 about two feet, dividing into small branches ; flowers very 

 small, pale yellow, succeeded by swelling, rough, four-cor- 

 nered seed-vessels, about an inch long, flatted at top, 

 where there are four reflex horns, given them some resem- 

 blance to the clove. Native of both Indies. 



11. Corchorus Linearis. Leaves lanceolate, serrate- 

 toothed ; capsules linear, compressed, two-valved. Height 

 three feet, with several weak side-branches ; leaves about 

 three inches long, and one inch broad in the middle, lessen- 

 ing gradually to both ends, sitting close to the branches. 

 The flowers come out singly opposite to the leaves ; they are 



; very small, of a pale yellow, and are succeeded by seed- 

 vessels nearly two inches long, flat, two-celled, with small 

 angular seeds. Native of Carthagena in New Spain. 



12. Corchorus Bifurcatus, Leaves cordate, serrate ; cap- 

 sules linear, compressed, having two horns at the points. 

 It rises with a strong herbaceous stalk between three and 

 four feet high, sending out several side-branches, which 

 grow erect. The flowers come out from the side of the 

 branches, on short peduncles ; they are very small, and of a 

 pale yellow colour. Native of Jamaica. 



13. Corchorus Fascicularis. Capsules oblong, subsessile 

 hoary, mucronate, two or three together ; leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong, smooth , serratures equal. Branches round and 

 smooth ; leaves petioled, narrow, blunt, the lower serratures 

 not bristle-shaped ; fruits ash-coloured, with hairs, three- 

 valved. Native of the East Indies. 



14. Corchorus Flexuosus. Leaves doubly serrate, cuspi- 

 date ; stem flexuose, round, slightly angular by the decurrent 

 leaves, smooth, erect, two feet high ; flowers at the ends of 

 the branches, yellow. Native of Japan. 



15. Corchorus Serratus. Leaves oblong, serrate, cuspi- 

 date; branches smooth. Stem erect, smooth; branche* 

 round, purple, erect ; leaves alternate, petioled ; serratures 

 large, setaceous at the tip. Native of Japan. 



16. Corchorus Scandens. Leaves ovate, setaceous-serrate, 

 opposite ; stem and branches flexuose, scandent ; leaves on 

 very short petioles, rounded at the base, acuminate, an inch 

 long. At the ends of the branchlets are solitary yellow 

 flowers. Native of Japan. 



Cordla ; a genus of the class Pentandria, order Monamiria. 

 GKXERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth one-leafed, tubular, 

 toothed at the top, permanent. Corolla -. one-petalled, 

 funnel-form ; tube patulous, length of the calix ; border 

 erect, spreading, cut into five obtuse divisions. Stamina : 

 filamenta five, subulate ; antherae oblong, length of the 

 tube. Pistil . germen roundish, acuminate ; style simple, 



