This plant grows wild in most parts of Jamaica, as well as other sugar-colonies, and seldom rises above sixteen or eighteen inches in height; the leaves are pretty in those countries and the flowers numerous and white, which renders it an agreeable flowering-plant in a garden: the root is pretty acrid, and has been sometimes used in poultices by antiquated and pale-faced ladies, to raise a forced bloom in their fading cheeks.

This plant, like the foregoing, grows wild in many parts of the island, and is now cultivated in most gardens for the sake of its flowers: it thrives best in a rich soil and shady place. (Listed in Index II as Amaryllis Belladonna).