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Til A LAM I FLORAE. 
Roots perennial ; leaves exactly opposite. — Name, from xXrifiu 
the shoot of a vine, which its long branches somewhat resemble. 
1. Clematis dioica. Dioecious Traveller’s joy. 
Flowers panicletl dioecious, leaves ternately divided, 
divisions ovate subcordate acuminate triply nerved en- 
tire glabrous, pericarps oval, pedicels pubescent. 
Sloane, Hist. I. 199. t. 118. f. 1. — Browne, Jain. 255? — Be 
Cand. Syst. I. 143. — Prod. I. 4. 
HAB. Common on the lower hills, especially in limestone 
districts. 
FL. August — December. 
Fruticose, ascending to a considerable height on neighbour- 
ing shrubs and trees : branches terete, glabrous, striated, stained 
with purple. Leaves opposite, petioled, ternate ; leaflets in the 
young plant connected together ; in the old, petioluled, ovate, 
subcordate, acuminate witli a bluntish apicula, 3-(or sub-5) 
-nerved, smooth, shining above: petiolelong, terete, striated, oc- 
casionally (as also the branches) granulato-verrucose : petiolules 
pedato-patent. Peduncles axillary, frequently longer than the 
leaves, subdivided : pedicels pubescent. Flowers greenish- 
white, and slightly fragrant, by abortion sub-dioecious. — $ . 
Calyx with sepals oblong, pubescent, reflexed. Stamens oc, 
length of the sepals. — $ . Pericarps about 20, oval, compressed, 
pubescent, terminated by a long feathery awn. 
This is the only species indigenous to the Island, the Cle- 
matis scandens foliis 5-ncrviis, referring to this species and not 
to C. Americana as supposed by De Candolle. — The long 
slender branches of this plant are employed by the Negroes as 
a substitute for cord, in tying rails, bundles of grass, &c. The 
leaves are hot and acrid to the taste, and, when bruised into a 
pulp, and applied to the skin, they act as a rubefacient, and even 
vesicate* An infusion of the bruised leaves and flowers, forms 
a good lotion for the removal of spots and freckles from the 
skin : and a decoction of the root in sea- water, mixed with wine, 
is said to act as a powerful purge in hydropic cases. Barham 
quaintly remarks, “ I never could understand why it is called 
Traveller’s joy, or what joy travellers reap from it.” 
II. II ANUNCULUS. Crowfoot. 
Calycine sepals 5. Petals 5, rarely 10, with a 
foveolar nectariferous squamule at the base. Stamens 
and ovaries oo. Carpels ovate, subcompressed, ter- 
minating in an awn scarcely longer than the seed, ar- 
ranged in a globose or cylindrical head. 
