No. 850. 
RONDELETIA HIRTA. 
Order. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A-native of Jamaica: it is said to have 
been brought first in the year 1776 to this 
country. It grows here to about the height 
of three or four feet, forming a stif bushy 
shrub, and flowering for one or two months 
toward the end of the summer. The leaves 
are rough, with short hairs, and the lower 
ones usually hang down over the stems. 
The flowers, when they first open, are all 
yellow, but after a few days the divisions of 
the corolla change to dark brown. 
It is necessary to keep this plant in the 
Stove, except in August and September, 
when we would recommend its being put 
out of doors, which will be found of much 
advantage to it. It may be increased by 
cuttings or layers, and should be potted in 
loam and peat earth. 
This genus was named by Plumier, in 
memory of W. Rondelet, a physician of 
Montpelier, who died chancellor of that 
university in 1566, aged 59. 
