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i found this in Barbados plentifully, though | cannot fay that ’twas Wild, 
but for its beauty planted in Gardens. 
The Inhabitants afcribe the Vertucs of a Philtre to this Plant. The Juice 
of the Leaves makes an Errhine which Cures the Head-ach, A. 7. 
Tencroides filiculofum foliis laurinis, floribus galeatis e labiatis. Cat. pl. 
jai. p. 64. | : 
Yhe Branches of this had a woody hard Stalk filled with a fungous Pith 
and were about the bignefs of ones Little Finger, round, and jointed. At every 
half Inch, are Leaves {et oppofite to one another, each whereof has {mall 
or no Footftalks, being about Four Inches long, and. One and a half 
broad. in the middle where broadeft, beginning narrow, encreafing to the 
middle, and thence decreafing ‘till they end ina point, being {mooth and 
equal on the edges. The tops of the Branches and Twigs are Six or sae 
Eight Inches long Spikes of Flowers fet at {mall diftances oppofite’ to one 5 oe 
another round the Stalk, after ‘the manner of fome of the Verricillaced 
Plants, cach Flower having a {mall Foot-ftalk, being both Galeared and 
Labiated, of a whitifh yellow colour, the Galea being Bifid, and the Lip 
Trifid, and having two Stamina with Apices ftanding out of the open Flower, 
to each of which fucceeds an Inch-long Seed-Vetlel brown, roundifh, final! 
next the Foot-ftalk, and fivelling rowards the point, being diftinguiflyd in 
the middle by a Partition into two Cells, which contain {ome large Brown 
Seeds. | 
It grew in the Ifland of Barbados, where I gathered it, if I rightly remem- 
ber, but this Defctiption being moftly taken from a dryed Plant is not fo cx- 
act as it ought to be, though it is plainly of the fame kind with Valli-npy- 
dali, EZ, Malab. and \ could not bring it fo near co apy of the Ewropeaw kinds 
‘as the Zeucria. . | taq dou ) 
Phafcolus utriufqne dadic tobis villohs pangentibus miniy. Ferm. par. Bat. prod. 
pe 364.) Cat. pl. Fam. p- 69.  Phaferius Braftliowns poliqua denrente lanugtue ob- 
jita racine frudts tort. Reg. Par. p. 40. The ftinging Bean Ger. ewnac.p 1215. 
An phaleolus orientalis pruritumexcitans hirfutie filiquarum foutty nigro [plendeme. 
Pluken. Alm. p.rz92.2 id (i s nell aida to ¢ 
It grows plentifully in Barbados. les of 300 
The Root boiled: and given: provokes Urine, with ‘Oil boiled it Cures the 
Gout and Zry/ipelas, with the Root: Cocinit xx: is pood in Purulem Urine 5 the 
Leaves beaten and applied are'good for Ulcers. The Beans caven are pro- 
vokers to Venery.. Ad: MM. 
Twelve Pods of this infus'd in two Quarts of ‘Bear: and half a Pint of 
the infusion given every morning vo drink, is‘acorcain Romedy for the Dropfie. 
Ri. Hift. pl. p.887. This Remedy has been aryed in the Eu/l-Jndies by 
Mr. Buckley, and found faccefsful there. Iso a 
_, Lyfimachia lutea non pappofu, anetia, foliis glubvis frattn caryoplylicide. Cut.'pl. 
tam. p. 85. paths age M ; 
/ Thee is in every thing the farne with the Casenranbayn Micgr. orlly fomewhat 73). 11. 
_feffet; the Leaves are wot ‘hairy but fmooth, elfe whe fame ‘with ic inevery Fiz. 1. 
thing bofides. — g Oe 3 epee 
Ie grew in Barbados in Watery places. .s nor ? : 
 \Malvi, vel alcea sprvicofa, ribthi folzis, fominibus afporis. Cat. pl. Fam. p.96. 
_ The Twigs of this Plant had Leawes fet on ‘them alternatively, having a- 
bout half an Inch Foorfialks, my were: almoft round, of about an Inch and 
a half Diameter, deeply laviniated, or cut in on the Edges into three ‘parts, 
each whereof were indented and finuated about the Badges; they were rough 
on the apper fide, and of a dury green colour, and pale or whitifh below, Tab. tt. 
being fomewhar like shofeof aCarran Bufh, or Ribes. Ex alis foltoram come Mg. 2- 
the Flowers in a Calix having almoft no Foot-ftalk encompafled by any 
gin L obtola 
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