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white underneath. Ex alis foliorum ftands without any Foot-ftalk a round con- 
glomerated Head for Flowers, made up of many white dry Membranes laid 
very clofe Squammatim one by another like the others ot this kind. 
{ found it in Madera Wand, or one of the Caribes, 
Aparines folio anomala vafculo feminali rotundo multa femina minntifioa con- 
tinente. Cat. pl Fam. p.50. — 
_ The Branches of this were woody, covered with a fmooth Bark about a 
Foot and a half long, cornered, and having Leaves plac‘d at the Joints two 
always oppofitethe one to the other, being about an Inch and a half long, 
and about an eighth part of an Inch broad at Ba{e where broadett, and 
whence it decreafes, ending in a point, being fmooth, equal on the Edges 
and Carinated; Fx alsis foliorum comes a roundith {mall Body, a little prickly 
or hairy at top, which augments ’till it is round as big as a Pepper Corn, as it 
were crowned at top, and which contains within it one Cell, which is full of 
{mall Seed like that of Henbane, {ticking to a Body which is in its Center. 
I found it in Barbados, or one of the Caribes. 
Colocafta hederacea fterilis latifolia. Plumicr, p.37. fig. 5%. lit. a. & fig. 52% 
Cat. pl. Fam. p. 63. 
This I obferved in the Woods of the Ifland of Nieves. 
On tafting the end of the Stalk of this Plant Father Plumier found his 
Mouth fo inflamed that he could not fpeak for two Hours, but was forced to 
Keep his Mouth open, his Tongue hanging out. Oxyerat took away the Jn- 
flammation, but the Acrimony of the Juice had fo burnt his Tongue and the 
Roof of his Mouth, that he could not taft any thing in Ten Days. 
Puleginm longiffimis latiffimi[que foliis. Cat.pl. Fam. p. 64. | 
This had fourfquare hollow Stalks, having Joints at Iwo or Three Inches 
diftance, at which ftand the Leaves Oppofite to one another, being about an 
Inch and an half long, and three quarters of an Inch broad, {mooth, equal on 
the Edges, being broadeft in the middle, and pointed at both ends, having 
one middle Rib, and feveral lateral apparent ones going to the Edges, with- 
out a Foot-ftalk, but having a Membrane furrounding the joint where ’tis {et 
on, enclofing the Stalk and feveral Hairs or Threads, or {oft Prickles, fome 
longer, fome fhorter, as well as Branches, having {maller Leaves. Towards 
the cop come at the Joints feveral Verticillz, being Heads pretty thick fet 
round the Stalk, made up of feveral Flowers, Apices or Seeds, under which 
are gencrally Two Leaves as the others below, only much {maller. 
It grew in one of the Caribes, but which I do not remember, neither 
were my Obfervations about it very exact when I gather’d it, moft being taken 
from the dry’d Plant, fo that I am not certain if it Smells, or be a Puleginm. 
Mr. Pettiver had it both from Guinea and Barbados. | 
Legumen trifolium fub terra frudtum edens. Raii hift. pl. p. 919. Cat. pl. 
Am. p.7 3. 
s I rik this in fome of the Caribe Ilands, but where I remember not, 
Althea fpicata betonice folio villofo, fpica breviori ¢» laxiori. Cat. pl. 
1, P. 97. 
i This bas feveral woody, round, reddifh Branches, hollow, and having 
Leaves fet on alternatively ftanding, on half an Inch Foot-ftalks, being of a- 
bout an Inch long, and three quarters of an Inch broad near the round Bafe - 
where broadeft, and whence they decreafe, ending in a Point, being Serrated 
about the Edges, extremely hairy, hirfure, or woolly, of a yellowifh green 
colour, ex als fol. come {mall Branches, on which, and onthe ends of the 
Twigs, come in Pentaphyllous, villofe calices, the Flowers, Spike fafhion one a- 
bove another, after the manner of Althea Americana pumila flore luteo Spicato 
Breyniz, to which follows feveral Seeds, about Five in number, of the {hape 
of thofe of Mallows, and fec round after the {ame manner. | 
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