CERASEE. Hairy cerasee

This is called the hairy cerasee. Stem round, slender, branched, climbing by lateral tendrils. Flowers sometimes hermaphrodite. Corolla yellow, usually five-parted, but sometimes six-parted. Stamens three, connected. Fruit oblong, bluntly angular, tubercled, drawn to a point at each end, white, yellow, or green, on the outside; within very red and fleshy, one-celled, bursting elastically. Browne observes, that both these plants are frequently cultivated in Jamaica, and thrive very luxuriantly in most of the gardens about Kingston; he also says the leaves boiled, and the decoction of the plant, are equally used to promote the lochiæ; the first by way of green, the other as an apozem; and are both reckoned serviceable on these occasions.