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Fig. 3. 
Tab. 12, 
Fig. 1. 
- p- 184: Cat. ple. Famep. 27-10 Visi ‘ 
Foliola to which follows feveral large rough Lappaceous or Echinated Seeds, 
having many little Prickles on their outfides, being in fhape and difpofition 
like to the other Mallows. 
{ found it inthe Wfland of Barbados. | 
Solanum bacciferum fruticofum, ftipitilas cy foliis majoriius, [pinis feroctoritus 
armatis. Cat. pl. fam. p.108. | 
This is in every thing like the Solanum fruticofum bacciferum {pinojam flore 
cweruleo. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 108. only larger, the Prickles are very red, fharp, 
thicker fet, and much ftronger, being fomewhiat like thofe of the Wild Rofe, 
and not only fet on the Stems, but likewife on the backfides of the Leaves 
along their middle Rib, being very like to it in other things : the Leaves are 
much larger, and the Fruit is the fame, there being many flat whitifh Seeds in a 
Pulp, as in others of this kind. 
I had it in Barbados and the Caribes. : rhe 
Solanum pomiferum tomentofum, frutlu pyriformi inverfo. Cat. pl. Fam.p. 108. 
This is in every thing like the Furepeba of Pio, only the Fruit is as large 
as an ordinary Pear, of a yellow colour, turbinated, and exactly of the fame 
fhape, from a large round beginning growing {maller to the top, which is like 
a Nipple, the whole Fruit having the Figure of a Pear inverted. 
It grows plentifully about Bridgetown in Barbados. | i 
The Root (if this be Fvabeba) is bitter, and opening efpecially clearing tlic 
Urinary paflages, but becaufe ’tis too bitter, ic may be help’d with the American 
Liquorice. Pio. : 
Planta de qua. moxa colligitur, forte artemifia vulgaris. J.B. tom. 3: lib. 26. 
_ I wastold by an Ingenious Planter at Barbados, whofe name J have forgot, 
but who took much pains about Exotic Plants, that he had cultivated‘an: Herb 
from the Ea/t-Indies, which he conceived to be the Plant. which there yielded 
them their Moxa 3 it feemed to. me:in every thing to be the fame with the 47s 
mifia vulgaris, J. B. For having had the favour of the. aforefaid Gentleman to 
fend. to his Plantation for it, the. Meflenger brought rolled up in:a'piece of 
Paper, a Branch of this Plant, as it feemed, broken fromthe main.Stem. | It 
was about a Foot long, the Stalk round, reddifh, folid, having a great Pith, 
and Leaves placed alternatively: without any: order, ::very like the Leaves of 
our ordinary Mugwort, they. being laciniated after the fame way, of a dark 
green colour above, and covered over beneath with a woolly 7 omestum making 
them white. This Wool being gathered is perhaps what they call Afoxs, the 
Leaves, weré im:handling. fomewhat Odoriferous.. ‘Towards the tops, from 
_. the Bofoins of thofe fioall eaves .catné: without any; Foot-fialks; fone fall 
roundith; ftriated ;; whitith, :wodlly:| Heads,s Which ‘I také co havébeen the 
Flowers budding out, but becaufe I didinot fee them, cannor:aflirm pofitively 
than ’tis the fame; .alchough if Iremember right, the aforefaid. Ingenious. Per- 
fon told me he knew no difference. This <Artemifia is taken notice of by 
Clufius to have. growh in allthofe parts of Ewrope he travell’d, and I faw it 
though not Wild,‘ yet thrive very well in the Wef-Jndia Gardens, and I fee 
no Reafon why we may not allow it to grow Wild in the Ea/t-Zndies and 
tobe that Plant from whence Moxa is gathered. The Moxa or Cotton may 
be either what's Natural on: the\back fides of its Leaves, or rais’d on it by 
. Infe@s: as the .Bedeguar. on'-the, Wild-Rofe. . . 
Melanomma&\melanoxyloh arbor laurifolia: nucifera gemmis nigricantibus Ameri- 
cana Plukenct., Phyt.. tab..205.; fig 13+ Cat. ple Fam. p. 135. 
I found it in the Iland of Barbados. 
Evedexylum fen lignum odoratwm :Americanum folio amplo fubrotundo profunde 
venofo fructu glandiformi beretini inftar nullo calice donato. . Plukenet. phytogr. tab. 
176, fig. 1- Cate pl. Fam p. 136. ye 
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