r, ne three teeth, 
the plants agre 
HED 
and the lip of the flower is finely 
tote The eaves too, in our, {pecimens, are fhorter, and 
confequently si a broader proportion. 
In other refpeéts 
Pas: ineum. Scarlet. Garland-flower. — Leaves ~ 
eee : Car 
ceolate, fmooth. Spike 
convoluted, many-flowered. 
e elongated, ey tnaieneal, Bragtea 
ng.—Native * 
the woods of Upper Nepal, where it is eae by the name 
of Gunculo Swa. Dr. Buchanan gathered. gur {pecimen at 
Suembu, June 8, 1802. —The root 
why. Braéeas generally three 
together in oti except a few of the upper and lowe 
iry and fomewhat nalbie re 
obferved what he conceived to be a variety. of this fine fpe- 
cies, chiefly differin 
n 
g in its more denfe imbricated {pike, 
£% ik 
. 
COME, in the Ancient Mi wfc, a dancing air for 
" HEDYCREA. ; in g Sena is Seaeed from ius Saiieah 
and xezu:, fle/b, becaute the pulp of its fruit is, fweet;— 
wh Shia 
al. Pocock, — one ne laf 
th. 
G, 
five” a fpreading tee 
five, inferted into arin 
hemp, with 
m. Filaments 
"6 rupa 
gat oo Nut ovate, 
‘d thell, 
8, of o 
seed with aye of one oul. sa har 
h. . Calyx. inferior, Pemulphericals five-toothed. 
ah none. Drupa with an oval Wits ompatied:-w 
bres. 
. Hf. incana. Mart. Mill. Dia. 
10: narrow, acute. 
Hee bafe,. in ; 
Oce 957. Schr 
ae ‘Mile Bia. v. 
Andria. t. Ord. Amen 
above ; white _ 
eb. 6 
Be gar seas 
meets: Linn, et 
Li leania incana ; 
‘Aub blet. Guian. t. 45-)—This: ike as {pecies known, 
ana, : 
_ alh-co a bar] whitifh, with: a {mell 
like rancid oil... Leaves alternate, fomewhat. feflle, ovate, Gen. 
Hi Ji . 
Ness @ name “adopted - ‘s Sw tite from 
corides, fo.called by t he Greeks from du, men 
a; vase 
t 
fided ; ttigma fimple, obtufe. . Peric. Drupa roundifh, with 
three flight aiiglte, fmall, fuperior, Seed folitary, hard, thned 
co: rnered, ng. 
Ef Ch. Male, Catkin naked. Calyx none. Corolla none. 
Anthers imbricated.— Female, Calyx three-toothed. - “Corolla 
t mone. —— = fingle-feede 
Obf, Swartz has remarked that the female flowers of i 
arborefcens are found aaeied in Auguft, but the males he 
oo for in vain, and hence fufpeéts that the plant is dics 
ick Solna: i Ind. Oce 959.—* Stem 
fhrubby, tiredthee Scattered, leaves lanoeelate pointed.” 
A native of the woods on the nighett —— of Jamaica, 
flowering throughout the year. e whole plant has a 
grateful mae and a warm aromatic or te It.is about .five 
feet high. anches {quare, {mooth. Leaves oppolite, on 
err gore ferrat ‘ed. 
H. arborefiens.’ Swartz. ‘Ind. Occ. vy. 2. suit 
“ Son —— — hee fiff, ere _ Leaves ovato- 
lanceolate.”’—Gro the high mountains in-the fouth 
part of Jamaica. ‘The. freth plant tins t an mame tafte and 
mell. 
oo a name given by arenes and as ple 
san 
in mittake. en Bia believed his Hedyati Auritilatia torbe, 
in deafnefs. This i is, in. fact, the Mentha hese ia, Ltn. 
ita. 81. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3.74, and by its habit.and fle 
your appears really to be a Mint, with fpiked Jowersw the 
genus to which the name Hedyotis remains, and of which we 
teat, cannot contend with it in fweetnels, nor, 
we prefume, in the marvellous virtue of curmg 
one of an infipid and generally imactive tribe, exeept 8 
diuretics. T'o this genus the original one of nat 
e united, for reafons more aera mentione? 
i b. 66. jd. 
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Ee 
e 
—Linn. Gen. 49. reb. 
¥. 1.564. “Mart. Mill. Did. v. 26 Julf. 198. Sacrore 
Di. v. 3. - Tui. ts 62. are: _ t.:30. 
Linn. Gen. 61. Plum. Gen. 42. 36. Schreb. 83. 
S x 
| Lamarck. Dig. v. 4. 531. Iluftre te 64. Ge rtm. it. 30¥ 
fgg in = Hort, Rew ed. 2. vi Is 2655 and in’ Roxb! 
2.)—Clafs and endens ‘Buranda Monagyne 
ee “Or, Suit, Linn, "Rubiaces 
«Chi: 
oundifh, inferor 3 eer aes as: pron a. = 
ae cloven ; ; fligmas sth ing in a ee : 
