390 



DKECIA HKXANDHJA. 



alata. 



D. ibliis oppositis ovatis cordato-sagit- 

 tatis cuspidatis septeuinorviiSjCaulealato 

 bulbifcro. WiUd.Sp, Pl4c. p,1^2, lIovL 



Kew. 5. />. 392. 



Aubl 903. 



% 



D. foliis cordatis, caule alato. Br. 359. 

 Volubilis nigra, radice alba ant pur- 

 purea. aS7. 1. p. 139, 

 Winged-stalked Dioscorea. Alton. 

 Red Yam. 

 halb'ifera ? D. foliis al tern is cordatis subrotundo- 



r 



ovatis acuniinatis subnovemnerviis, caule 



la3vi bulbifero. IVilld, Sp. PL 4,p, 793. 



Horf. Keiv, 5. p, ^92. yhM. 903. ^ % 



Rhizopbora, &c. radice rotunda. Hcrnu 



Par. 217. L 217. 



Black-Bryony-leavcd Dioscorea, Atto7i, 

 Grenada Yam. 



mllva^ D. foliis alternis cordatis subrotundo- 



ovatis cuspidatis subnovemnerviis lobis 



world from which it had been introduced into Jamaica; and 

 which I think is plainly the D. sativa. Long-, by the term NeijTo- 

 Yam, Dioscorea radice tuberoba lulea, evidently means the 

 prickly Yam; and Browne's No. I. is wilhont doubt the same 

 plant, the Dioscorea aculcata. 



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* This is certainly not, as supposed by AVilldenow, the Dios- 

 corea, iVo. 3. or Wild Yam of Browne, which ho says is '' not 

 put to any nsc in Jamaica/' I have therefore omitted the syno« 

 nym from Browne, referred to in the Species Flantaruni^ 



