146 SIR HANS SLOANE's LIST OF PLANTS.- [appendix. 



in the middle where hroadest, smooth, pale, of a pale 

 green colour above and white underneath, with one middle 

 rib, and some transverse nerves, going from it to the sides 

 of the leaf, appearing on its upper side. It has no foot 

 stalk, but out of one of the alee of the leaves, towards the 

 top, rise many brown stalks supporting flowers, which are 

 whitish, with many stamina, surrounded by a pentaphyllous 

 calix, after which come heads of the same colour, as big as 

 a small pea, being roundish, though acuminated at top, 

 made up of three loculaments or cells, having each on his top 

 an apex. In each of these heads lies great quantities of 

 small, oblong, ash-coloured seed. The head bruised smells 

 very sweet. 



" Hypericum erectum. M. Scr. 



" Geranium Althece folio, C.B. Bali Hist., p. 1055. 

 "Geranium Malacoides. Linn. Sp. pi. 952. (!) 



" Apocynnm fruticosum, folio oblongo, acuminato, floribus 

 racemosis. Cat. pi. Jam., p. 89. 



" This had woody stalks round, and of the bigness of 

 hen's quills, covered with a reddish brown bark, the wood 

 being solid and white, having leaves going out at about an 

 inch distance, always opposite to one another. They stand 

 on half a quarter of an inch foot-stalks, are two inches 

 long, and about three-quarters of an inch broad, near the 

 middle, towards the base where broadest, and whence they 

 decrease, ending in a point which is not very sharp. There 

 is one middle rib, and several transverse ones running 

 through the leaf, which is undivided, smooth, of a yellowish, 

 pleasant green colour. Ex alis foliorum, towards the tops 

 come three or four inch long petioli, which are branched, 

 and sustain several very small flowers. 



