This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...A small genus of shrubby West Indian Geaneraceaz, with sparse leaves, hairy beneath and bullate above, and long axillary flower-stalks bearing a cymose inflorescence. The calyx has the tube adriate to the ovary, and a flveparted limb; the corolla is obliquely campanulate, broad at its mouth and somewhat constricted at its middle, and has a flvelobed limb; the stamens are inserted high up on the corolla, and are two short and two long, with the rudiment of a flfth; and the disk upon the top of the ovary is thick annular and siiiuose. 'l'he species constitute part of the undergrowth in vir in forests. A. S. RHYTIGLOSSA. A very large genus of herbaceous or shrubby plants belonging to the Acanthacece, widely dispersed through the tropical and warm countries of the Western Hemisphere, and found also at the Cape of Good Hope. Most of the species have terminal flower-spikes and reddish flowers, usually with narrow bracts resembling but shorter than the divisions of the calyx, or rarely with broad overlapping bracts. The calyx is four or flve-parted; the corolla two-lipped; the stamens two; and the stigma simple and sharp-pointed. R. pectoral-is is one of the commonest of the American species, being found in most of the West India islands, and in various parts of tropical America, from Southern Mexico to Brazil. in some of these countries an infusion ol' tea made of the leaves is drunk to relieve chest affections, or a stomachic syrup is prepared by boiling them with sugar. in Martinique the French call it Herbe au Charpentier. A. S. RHYTISMA. A genus of pliacidiaceous Fungi, with a thin stroma, and superficial irregular wrinkle-like more or less confluent perithecia. The two most common species are R. salicinum of the willow, and...