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THALAMIFLORjE, 
dentatis, postremas in setas inermes, Browne , 23 2. t. 25. f. 1 
— Corchorus sestuans, Jacq . hort. t. 85. — Willd. Sp. I ft. 1216 
Browne states, that he found this species in our Island ; but 
that it is not a common plant. The stem is described as slightly 
scabrous, purpurascent ; branches divaricating : leaves cordato- 
ovate, serrated, with the lowest serratures setaceous : styles 3, 
bifid: capsule, according to Willdenow, “linear, 6-angled, (the 
angles approximating in pairs) ; and the terminal teeth very 
much diverging.” 
4. Corchorus olitorius. Jew's Mallow. 
Capsules oblong subterete glabrous 5-celled «5-vaI- 
ved, leaves ovato-oblong serrated with the two lowest 
serratures terminating in long bristles. — De Cand. 
Willd. Sp. III. 1214. — De Cand. Prod. I. 504. — Bot. Mag. 
2810. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. After rain. 
An annual species : stem erect, glabrous. Leaves 2-3 inches 
long, varying from oblong to ovate, acute or even acuminate, 
thin : petiole often as long as the leaf. Flowers yellow, soli- 
tary, shortly peduncled, opposite the leaves : peduncles fur- 
nished about the middle with three-subulate bracteas. Calycine 
sepals spreading. Petals obovato- oblong. Capsules varying 
from 1 to 3 inches in length, acuminate : seeds ovate, brown. 
This plant may be frequently met with in our gardens ; al- 
though it has in a great measure ceased to be cultivated as a 
pot-herb. The leaves boiled, afford a very excellent and whole- 
some substitute for spinach. 
5. Corchorus lanuginosus. TVoolly Broom-weed. 
Capsules oblongo-conical curved setoso-echinated 
with soft woolly hairs, leaves ovato-oblong obtuse to- 
rn entose undulato-crenato-serrate. 
HAB. Common on the windward road, between Albion and 
the Eleven Mile-stone. Below Moccha Great House, St 
David’s. 
FL. End of the year. 
A shrub, 4-5 feet in height : branches terete, farinoso-to- 
menlose with stellated hairs, rufescent. Leaves ovato-oblong, 
obtuse, rounded at the base, a few (the lowest and largest) sub- 
cordate, undulato-serrated with blunt teeth, penni-nerved, to- 
mentulose above, and incano-tomentose beneath with minute 
stellated hairs, about 2 inches long and 1 broad : petiole rufes- 
hab. ? 
FL. 
