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JACKAL'S KOST. Hydnora africana. 



JACK-BY-THE-HEDGE. Sisymbrium 

 Alliaria, or Alliaria officinalis. 



JACK-IN-A-BOX. Hernandia sonora. 



JACK-OF-THE-BUTTERY. Sedum acre. 



JACKIA. The name of a tree of South- 

 ern India, forming a genus of Cinchonacece. 

 The flowers have an irregular calyx, di- 

 vided into three segments ; the corolla is 

 funnel-shaped, with a slender tube and 

 flve-lobed limb ; the anthers are sessile on 

 the throat of the corolla ; the style is very 

 long, hairy in the middle ; and the fruit is 

 capsular, one-seeded, and surmounted by 

 the three large sepals. [M. T. MJ 



JACKSONIA. A genus of Australian 

 undershrubs, belonging to that group of 

 Leguminosce in which the ten stamens 

 are free, and the pods two-seeded ; and dis- 

 tinguished from Daviesia and other allies 

 by the deeply and equally five-parted calyx, 

 the absence of a carun cuius or swollen 

 excrescence to the seeds, and the want of 

 stipules. Of upwards of thirty species a 

 goodly proportion are leafless and have 

 flattened stems which perform the func- 

 tions of leaves ; others have rush-like 

 stems with juniper-like leaves ; and some 

 have the aspect of furze or broom bushes, 

 with leaves like them, and branches often 

 terminating in spiny points. The flowers 

 are small and yellow. J. scoparia, the Dog- 

 wood of New South Wales, grows twelve 

 or fifteen feet high, with a diameter of four 

 to six inches, and furnishes a tolerably 

 hard wood which takes a good polish, but 

 is not applied to any particular purpose ; 

 when burning it emits an offensive smell, 

 whence its local name. [A. A. B.] 



JACKWOOD. A wood obtained from 



Artocarpus integrifolia. 



JACOBEE. (Fr.) Senecio Jacobaia. 



JACOBINIA. A genus of Acanthacece, 

 containing seven species, natives of Cen- 

 tral America. They are erect shrubs with 

 subcoriaceous leaves, and large flowers 

 with a large herbaceous deeply five-cleft 

 calyx, a ringent corolla with an erect ob- 

 long linear bidentate upper lip, and a three- 

 cleft lower one, two stamens, a capitate 

 two-lobed stigma, and a two-celled cap- 

 sule. ["W. C] 



JACOB'S LADDER. PoUmonium cceru- 

 leum. 



JACQUEMONTIA. A small genus of 

 Convolvulacece of tropical America, with a 

 single species from Asia. They are mostly 

 twining herbs, sometimes woody at the 

 base, with entire or slightly lobed leaves, 

 and rather small flowers in axillary pedun- 

 culate cymes, the corolla usually broadly 

 campanulate, and angular or broadly five- 

 lobed. The ovary is two-celled with two 

 ovules in each cell. This genus, separated 

 from Convolvulus, is intermediate between 

 that genus and Ipoimea in the shape of the 

 oblong two-lobed stigma. [W. C] 



JACQUINIA. A genus of handsome 

 evergreen bushes, of the Myrsine family, 

 peculiar to America, where they ranee 

 from Florida to Brazil, and are usually 

 found near the coast. They have alternate 

 entire glossy leaves, and terminal racemes 

 or umbels of vermilion flowers, having a 

 five-parted calyx, a bell-shaped corolla with 

 a flat border, five stamens with five alter- 

 nating scales, and a one-celled ovary. The 

 fruits are bright yellow, containing from 

 one to three seeds imbedded in a mucilagi- 

 nous placenta, which feature chiefly serves 

 to distinguish the genus from Ciavija and 

 Theophrasta. J. armillaris is known to 

 French settlers in the West Indies as 

 Bracelet-wood, it being their custom to 

 string its shining brown and yellow seeds 

 into bracelets. The genus bears the name 

 of N. I. de Jacquin, an eminent botanist, 

 once professor at Leyden. [A. A. B.] 



JAGERY or JAGGERY. A coarse kind 

 of sugar made from the juice of the Cocoa- 

 nut, and other palms. 



JAGONG. The Malay name for Maize. 



JALAP. A well-known drug, of which 

 the best kind is obtained from Exogonium 

 Purga, but other species are also collected 

 under the same name. — , INDIAN. Ipo- 

 mma Turpetlmm. — , MALE. Ipomcea ba- 

 tatoides. 



JALAP-PLANT. Mirabilis Jalapa. 

 JALOUSIE. (Fr.) Dianthus barbatus ; 

 also Amaranthus tricolor. 



JAMAICA-PEPPER. One of the names 

 given to Allspice. 



JAMALGHOTA. The Hindoo name for 

 Croton oil and seed. 



JAMBIRA. A Sanscrit name for the 

 Lemon, Citrus Limonum. 



JAMBOLAN-TREE. Cahjptranthes Jam- 

 bolana. 



JAMBOLIER. (Fr.) Cyminosma. 



JAMBON DES JARDINIERS. (Fr.) 

 CEnothera biennis. 



Jambosa malaccensis. 

 JAMBOSA. A group of myrtaceous 



