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TH AI.AMI FLORA'. 
late mucronate pubescent beneath, stem subsimple 
pubescent. 
HAB. Little-Hope Pastures, St Andrew’s. 
FL. August — September. 
Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, about 8 inches in height, 
erect, terete, striated, pubescent, scarcely branched. Leaves 
alternate, petiolate, lineari-lanceolate, mucronate, entire, 
puberulous above, pubescent beneath. Raceme terminal, length 
of the leaves : peduncle angulose, puberulous. Flowers oo , of 
a pale yellow with a tinge of purple, shortly pedicelled. Caly- 
cine sepals externally puberulous ; the upper sepal lanceolate ; 
the two lower ones cohering for half their length ; the two 
lateral ones lato-falciform, veined, marked with a white mem- 
branaceous spot, persistent. Inferior petal concave at the apex, 
beardless to the glass ; lateral petals expanded at the apex. 
Stamens submonadelphous : filaments white ; anthers yellow. 
Capsule 2-celled, 2-seeded, compressed, emarginate, smooth, 
partly covered with the persistent lateral sepals: seeds oblong, 
pubescent, with the hilum prominent and carunculated. 
This plant is decidedly an annual. It may therefore be 
different from the P. mucronata of Willdenow, III. 888. which 
is described as shrubby. It is an obscure unattractive plant, 
which may account for its having hitherto escaped notice as a 
native of this Island. 
II. Badiera. 
Calycine sepals 5, deciduous, subequal. Petals 3, 
slightly united at the base, with the middle one con- 
cave and beardless. Stamens 8, monadelphous. 
Capsule compressed, obcordate, bilocular, sulcated at 
the margin. Seeds glabrous with a large oily arillus 
filling the upper part of the locule . — De Cand. 
American suffruticose plants. 
1. Badiera diversifolia. Smooth-leaved Badiera. 
Racemes short axillary, leaves ovali-oblong acu- 
minate at both ends. 
Polygala diversifolia, Linn. Am. II. 140 Browne, Jam. t. 5. 
f. 3. 4. 
HAB. Road from Flamstead to Mt Henry, Port-Royal. 
Opposite Prospect-bill, St. Andrew’s. St Thomas in the Vale. 
FL. November — January. 
A tree about 15 feet in height: branches terete, towards 
their extremities puberulous. Leaves two inches long, and 
