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CAI.YCIFL0RA5. 
Flower rather larger than that of the common evening 
Primrose, yellow, but acquiring on the second day a red 
ish tinge. 
This is a very common plant in the above locality. It 
may however have been an introduced plant. Buenos 
Ayres is said to be its native country. 
2. (Enothera rosea. Rose CEnothera. 
Stem suffruticose branched, leaves, the lower 
ones lyrate, the upper ones ovato-lanceolate den- 
tate, tube of the calyx short, petals ovato-subro- 
tund, stamens ol nearly the same length as the 
petals, capsules clavate octangular. 
CE. purpurea, Lam, Diet. 1Y. 564. — GE. rubra, Cai(v. 
Icon. IV. 68. t. 400. — CE. rosea, Hort. Kew. II. 343. — 
Bot. Mag. 
II AB. Common, in the mountains of St. Andrew, Port- 
Royal, and St. David, especially in Coffee pieces. 
F L. Throughout the year. 
Suffrutescent, about a foot in height : branches from 
the root, subsimple, virgate, terete, puberulous, coloured. 
Leaves alternate, the lower ones subsessile ; the upper 
ones ovato-lanceolate, acute, undulated, irregularly 
dentate, nerved, glabrous above, minutely puberulous 
especially along the nerves beneath. Stipules (?) foli- 
aceous, lanceolate. Inflorescence subracemose : com- 
mon peduncle 8 inches in length, puberulous, about 10- 
flowered : flower pedicelled, rose-coloured. Tube of the 
calyx about three lines in length : divisions of the limb 4, 
cohering at the apex. Petals rounded, rose-coloured, 
with a greenish spot at the base. Stamens 8 : anthers 
linear. Stigma 4-cleft. Capsule clavate, 4-sided, S-rib- 
bed : seeds minute. 
This also is an exceedingly common weed in the above 
localities, ani is plentiful in the Yallah’s and Hope River- 
courses. It is noticed by De Candolle as a native of 
Mexico. 
II. Jussi jea. 
Calycine tube adherent throughout to the ova- 
ry : limb 4-8 partite, with the lobes acute persist- 
