iPLANTS OF BERMUDA. Bl 



The Cape Jasmine {Gardenia flonda) , with its voxieij Fortuni and a 

 few other white -flowered Gardenias, are cultivated. Some four or 

 five species of another genus [Ixora],^ bearing handsome orange or 

 scarlet flowers, have also ibeen locally introduced, but have not found 

 much favour. One representative of the large West Indian genus 

 of Psychotria [F. Favetta) is said to grow at Bishop's Lodge, and the 

 Voa Vanguiera ( V. eduUs) at Mount Langton. A rather pretty plant 

 {Fentas carnea), with globose heads of flesh-coloured flowers, may bo 

 seen in flower all summer in Public Park and other places. 



I. KACHICALLIS. 



Small-leaved shrubs ; flowers solitary j axillary ; capsule two-celled, many- 

 seeded. 

 1. R. rupestris. A low, spiny shrub, two to three feet high, branches 

 rusty, erect, in opposite pairs ; spines axillary, slender, longer than 

 the leaves ; leaves one -third of an inch diameter, roundish, pointed ; 

 stipules triangular, long-pointed, embracing the stem and iDctioles ; 

 flowers sessile ; calyx with five narrow lobes and teetli alternate 

 with them ; corolla very hairy ; lobes four, imbricate ; stamens four, 

 hidden in tube of corolla; capsule one-third of an inch, globose, 

 about eight-seeded. Distribution, Bahamas ; habitat, barren hills 

 South Shores, probably indigenous. Flowers yellow ; September, 



II. sPERMACocii (Borrera). 



Annual weeds ivith opposite leaves and dense axillary clusters of minute 

 flowers; calyx ■persistent, hairy, with four minute teeth ; corolla four -lohed^ 

 val'oate, lined with soft, beaded hairs ; seeds ttvo. 



1. 8. tenuor. Lamarch. Stem slender, erect, sparingly branched, 

 four- angular ; leaves lanceolate, pointed, entire, hairy, the upper 

 narrow ; stipular sheath connecting the petioles and fringed with 

 long, slender pink bristles ; clusters many-flowered ; stamens four ; 

 styfe equalling the stamens ; stigma ctipitate ; fruit dry, bristly, 

 scTjarating into two one -seeded carpels, crowned with two horns ; 

 seeds furrowed on face, rough, netted on the back. Distribution, 

 West Indies ; habitat, a very common wayside weed. Flowers pale 

 pink ; nearly all seasons, 



2. 8. hevis. Grisehach. Stem erect, smooth, sub -cylindrical or 

 slightly angular ; leaves ovate, lanceolate, pointed, shining and 

 deeply channelled above: sheath compressed, joining the petioles 

 and fringed with slender bristles ; clusters many-flowered ; _ flowers 

 and fruit as in the jjreceding species, but seeds striated with con- 

 tniuous transverse furrows. Distribution, West Indies ; habitat, 

 ♦fee, as in 8. tenuor. 



Ill, GALIUM. 



Herbs with square sie»is and whorled leaves ; flowers minute, axillary ; 



calyx limb obsolete ; fruit two-seeded. 



1. G. hypocarplum. An annual, diffuse, hispid weed ; stem half 



to one foot, with four prominent ridges ; leaves one -third of an inch 



long, four in a whorl, obloug, pointed ; flowers on slender- jointed 



