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JETT 



Ave divisions, five petals, and ten stamens, ] 

 five long and five short, with the anthers 

 united together around a central disk ; the 

 females have ten barren stamens, and a i 

 three-celled ovary. 



J. glauca, an East Indian plant, known 

 also under the name of J. glandulifera, fur- 

 nishes an oil which is obtained by crush- 

 ing the seeds, and which is used as an 

 external application in rheumatism, &c, 

 J. podaarica is a curious gouty-stemmed j 

 plant. "See Cuecas, Cnidoscolus, Maxi- I 

 hot. [M.T.M.] 



JATJ, JO. Indian names for Barley. 



JAUBERTIA. An Arabian spiny shrub, I 

 with very small leaves, forming a genus of 

 Cinchonacece. The segments of the calyx 

 and corolla are hairy, the latter organ is 

 funnel-shaped, with the stamens inserted 

 into its throat ; the ovary has two one- 

 seeded compartments; and the style is 

 terminated by two spoon-shaped stigmatic 

 divisions. [M. T. M.] 



JAUNDICE BERRY. Berberis vulgaris. 



JAURSA. An Affghan name for Alhagi 

 Maurorum. 



JAWA-WUT. A Javanese name for Pa- 

 nicum miliaceum. 



JA"WATRI. An Indian name for Mace. 



JEANNARETTIA. A genus of Panda- 

 nacere, figured in the Voyage de la Bonite, 

 but not yet described. 



JE ANNETTE. (Fr.) Narcissus poeticus. 



JEDWAR. Curcuma Zedoaria. 



JEEAPOOTRA. An Indian name for the 

 nuts of Putranjiva Boxburghii. 



JEERA. An Indian name for Cumin. 



JEFFERSONIA. A genus of Berberi- 

 dacecB with the habit of Sanguinaria, a 

 small glabrous perennial North American 

 herb, with a horizontal rhizome, a simple 

 naked one-flowered scape, and long-stalked 

 root-leaves divided into two half-ovate 

 leaflets. The flowers are large white, with 

 four petaloid sepals, eight oblong flat nar- 

 row petals, and eight stamens. The cap- 

 sule is pear shaped and one-celled. J.di- 

 phylla, the only species, occurs from New 

 York to the mountains of the Southern 

 States; it is called Rheumatism-root in 

 some places. [J. T. S.] 



JELLY-PLANT of Australia. Eucheuma 

 speciosum. 



JENEQUEN. A Mexican name for the 

 Agave, from the fibres of which cordage, 

 sacks, &c, are made. 



JENKINSIA. A genus of polypodiaceous 

 ferns, allied to the Acrosticheo? through 

 Pee diopter is, of which it is by some re- 

 garded as an abnormal form. The sori 

 form linear submarginal patches, with an 

 areolate instead of universal attachment, 

 which is the principal feature to separate 

 them from the A crostichece. The receptacle 

 consists usually of the three outer series of 



arcuate venules with three ex current vein- 

 lets, and are hence compound, from which 

 artificial characters it has been referred to 

 the Platycerieo?, though having no natural 

 affinity with Platy cerium itself. The plant 

 is a native of India, with much, the general 

 character of Poe.cilopteris. [T. M.] 



Also a genus of Olacacece, now referred to 

 Miquelia, consisting of climbing or twin- 

 ing shrubs, with alternate leaves, and dioe- 

 cious five-petaled flowers collected into 

 heads. The fruit is a drupe. There are 

 two or three, species, natives of tropical 

 Asia, [J. H. B.] 



JERCATCHREE. An Indian name for 

 Nux-vomica seeds. 



JERDONIA. A genus of Cyrtandracece, 

 containing a single species, a native of In- 

 dia, a small herbaceous stemless plant, with 

 petiolate ovate leaves, and erect terminal 

 scapes, terminating in a few-flowered um- 

 bel of funnel-shaped four-lobed flowers, 

 with four stamens, all fertile, and an ovary 

 surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped. 

 disk. . [W. C] 



JERMAEE. An Indian name for Coccu- 

 lus indicus. 



JEROOGOO. Caryota wens. 

 JEROSE. (Fr/) Anastatica. 

 JERSEY LIVELONG. Gnaphalium lu- 

 teo-album. 



JERUSALEM CROSS. Lychnis chalce- 

 donica. 



JERUSALEM STAR. Tragopogon por- 

 rifolius. 



JESSAMINE. A popular corruption of 

 Jasmine. 



JESSENIA. A solitary palm, inhabiting 

 moist woods in New Grenada, and attain- 

 ing a height of sixty feet, with a trunk a 

 foot in diameter, bearing a spreading crown 

 of pinnate leaves, each of which measures 

 twenty-four feet in length, and has nume- 

 rous opposite leaflets, about four feet long 

 by six inches broad, whitish underneath. 

 The flower-spikes hang down from amongst 

 the leaves, and are enclosed within two 

 spathes, the outer one being a foot and a 

 half, and the inner five feet long, bursting 

 open along the back at the time of flower- 

 ing. The flowers are arranged in threes (.two 

 males and one female) upon the lower, and 

 in pairs (both males) upon the upper, part 

 of the spikes. The fruit is about the size 

 of a pigeon's egg, violet-coloured, having 

 a thin, oily, eatable flesh, surrounding a 

 fibrous husk which encloses a single horny 

 seed. It is named Jessenia polycarpa, on 

 account of the large number of fruits pro- 

 duced by a single flower-spike. [A. SJ 



JETEE. An Indian name for Marsdenia 

 tenacissima, whose fibres are made into 

 bowstrings. 



JETERUS. A yellowness of the green 

 parts. Vegetable jaundice. 



JETTIMUD. An Indian name for Liquor- 

 ice root. 



