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CALYCIFLOR.B 
This species is to be found in marshy situations, 
throughout the West India Islands, such as in Hayti and 
Porto Rico, Sloane remarks that the flowers “ make a 
fine show ; it grows in mud.” Browne mentions the low 
ground of Plantain Garden River as a locality. There 
appears to be little to distinguish it from j. jrei’ens. a com- 
mon plant, in damp grounds, in different parts of the East 
Indies. The principal differ nee is, that in this last named 
plant, the calyx is subhirsute. 
# * Tetrapetalous octandrous. 
2. Jussiaea acuminata. Sharp-pointed leaved 
Jussicea. 
Herbaceous ascending somewhat erect sub- 
simple glabrous, leaves shortly petiolate lato-lan- 
ceolate acuminate at both ends, flowers shortly 
pedicelled ebracteolated, calycine lobes 4 ovato- 
lanceolate, petals acute patulous. 
Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 745. — Meyer, Prim. Ess 173. 
HAB. Low damp situations, on the South-side. 
F L. November, December. 
Herbaceous. Stem decumbent at the base, afterwards 
ascending, tetrangular, glabrous, about G inches in height. 
Leaves very glabrous, thin : petioles short; the lower 
ones longer. Flowers axillary, very shortly peduncled, 
solitary, small, yellow. Petals 4, acuminate, caducous. 
Stamens eight, shorter than the petals, capillary. Style 
short, thick: stigma capitate, large. Capsule half an inch 
in length, tetragonal, acuminate at the base, 4-cellcd : 
seeds very numerous and minute. 
3. Jussiaea erecta. Erect Jussicea . 
Herbaceous erect branched subterete, branches 
somewhat ttn^ulai, leaves shortly petiolate lance- 
olate acuminate at both ends, flowers sessile ebrac- 
teated, calycine lobes 4 acuminate nearly equal to 
the obovate petals, capsule tetragonal roundish 
constricted under the limb of the calyx. 
