152 Ihe Natural Hiffory of ‘Jamaica. 
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has five little, brown, fhort, capfular Leaves, {landing underneath. It js 
an Inch long, pyramidal and brown, having four protuberances, and con- 
tains three irregularly figur’d large Seeds, very dark brown colour’d, hard 
and {mooth. 
It grows by the fides of Black River, and Rio Cobre, very plentifully. 
The Leaves of this are very different from thofe of the Convolvulys A- 
mericanus, f{ubrotundis foliis, viticulis [pinofts. Plukenet. Tab. 276. Fig.3. Alm. 
p.115. Sothat they cannot be the fame, though Dr. Plukenet. p. 54. Mant. 
thinks it may be the fame. 
VI. Convoluulus major heptaphyllos, plore fulphurco, odorato, fpeciocifimo. Ca. 
p.55- Tab.96. Fiz.2. Spanifh Arbor Vine, or Spanifh Woodbind. 
This has a round tuberous Root, as large as ones Head, fending forth a 
brown, corner’d Stalk, which mounts, and turns round the higheft Trees, . 
and covers them with its numerous Branches. The Leavescome out at three 
or four [nches interval, they are finger’d like thofe of the Hedera quinguefolia 
Canadenfts Cornuti, having two Inches long, green, round Foot-Stalks, and be- 
ing diviced into {even Fingers or Divifions, each Section having a middle 
Rib, beginning narrow, growing larger, and ending in a point. The Secti- 
ons at bafeare fhorte{t, and narroweft, each growing larger to the feventh, 
Which is four Inches long, and one broad, thin, fmooth, and dark coloured. 
The Flowers ftand on three Inches long, round, green Foot-Stalks, com- 
ing out ex al/s fol. being monopetalous Bell Fafhion’d, of a very fine yellow 
colour, and {melling fWeet. After thefe follow the Seeds, contained in a 
Capfula as big asa fmall Wallnut. The Czpfula is thin, membranaccous, 
brown, and covered with foliofe, or capfulir Leaves, flicking to its Bale, 
Thefe Seeds are very large, being ufually three, and triangular, having one 
round fide, and being of adark brown colour, looking like Sattin, by many 
brown Hairs, are on their furface. 
It grows among the Trees by the Banks of Rio-Colre near the Town, and 
is planted by Arbors to make fhades, they covering them, and by their 
Leaves keeping out the Sun-Beams, better than any one of this Kind | 
know. 
A Planter finding this tuberous Root in his ground, very plentifully, 
thought that he had found a new fort of Provifion like Batatas for his Ne- 
groes 3 but he was miftaken for on boyling this Root asthe others it would 
not at all relifh with them. 
This cannot be the Convolvulus Americanus villo{us pentaphyllus & heptaphyl- 
los major. ILerm. as Dr. Plukenet thinks, p. 55. 0f his Dantiffa. 
VIN. Convolvulus pentaphyllos, flore pallide flavefcente, caule hirfuto, pungente. 
Cat. p.55. Au Convobvulus Americanus, pentaphyllos, folio glabro dentato, vi- 
ticulis hirfutis. Plum. Tournef: Inft. p.84 ? 
The Root of this Plant is oblong, and tuberous, of an Afh colour, from 
which rifes a large purple Stem, branch’d out into others, very tough, and 
purple, taking hold, and climbing up by its Stalk any Plant or Herb it comes 
near. The hairy long prickles on the Stalks of this Plant are pricking and 
troublefome, like thofe on Cowhage. At about two Inches diftance, come out 
the Flowers and Leaves, the latter {tand on three quarters of an Inch long 
Foot-Stalks, being divided into five Sections from the Center of its Foot- 
Stalks, as Lupins, agnus caftus, or Hedera quinquefolia Canadenfts Cornuti. That 
Section oppofite to the Foot-Stalk, is about an Inch long, the reft being fhor- 
ter, in proportion to their being near the Bafe, being all {mooth, and of a 
pale green colour, like the Leaves of Burnet. The Flowers come out ex alis 
fol. {landing on two Inch long Foot-Stalks. They are {mall, men ran ie 
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