The Natural Hiftory of ‘Jamaica. 153 | 
Bell fafhion’d, of a very pale yellow colour, having a green pentaphyllous 
calyx. After the Flowers follows a round Capfula, divided into four Locu- 
laments or Cells, tn each of which lies one brown Seed, covered with a 
woolly Hair, triangular, round on one fide, and flat on the two others, 
each Cell being by feveral membranes divided from the others. 
Je grows in the Savanuas, and by the Rivers fides very plentifully. 
I think chis Plant agrees with Dr.Plukezet’s Convolvulus quinquefolius, claber, 
eve. as I have faid in my Catalogue, notwithftanding his being of another 
Opinion. Mant. p. 55. 
VIH. Convolunlus pentaphyllos minor, flore purpurco. Cate p: 55. Tab. 97. 
figs 3: 
_ A fmall ftringy Root, fends up a round purple Stalk, winding about 
any thing near it, and rifing two Foot high, on which, here and there, ftand 
purplifh green, five pointed, {mooth Leaves, the notches reaching almoft to 
the purple Foot-Stalks end, fomewhat like Papaw Leaves. The Flowers come 
out ex alis foliorum, they are monopetalous, of a purple colour, and very 
pleafant, after which follows a round, brown Cap/ula, membranaceous, and 
inclofing the Seed, as the other Convolvnii. 
It grew among the prickly Pears in the Town Savanna, going towards 
two Mile Wood. ; 
‘Tis eafie by comparing the Defcription and Figure of this, and the Con- 
volvulus quinguefolius, glaber, Americanus. Plukenct. Phyt. Tah. 167. Fig. 6: 
That that Plant and this are different, though Dr. /lukenet, p. 55. of his 
Mantiffa, thinks they may be the fame. 
EX. Convolvulus major polyanthos, longifime latiffimeque repens, floribus albis, 
minoribus, odoratis. Cat. p. 55. [0b.97. Fig. 2. 
The Plant covers fometimes a great many Trees, and fometimes Paftures 
for a great breadth. It has abroad or comprefs’d, flat, long, cornered Root, 
of a brownifh colour, from whence many {trings go under the furface of the 
Earth, to draw Nourifhment to the whole Herb. The Stalks are whitith, 
broad, {mooth, having feveral round eminencies on their furface, and rife 
about any Tree they come near, to fometimes a very great heighth, at other 
times {pread on the furface of the Earth to a great breadth, putting forth 
Branches adorn’d with Leaves at an Inch and an halfs diftance. They are 
fhap’d like a Heart, an Inch anda half long from the Inch long Foot-Stalk 
to the end of the Leaf, and an Inch broad at the round Bale, where broadeft, 
fmooth, foft, and of a darkifhgreen colour. The Flowers come out on the 
Branches in great numbers, They ftand on an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are 
monopetalous, Bell fafhion’d, white, with five greenifh Fafcie, little in re» 
{pect of the Plant, and {melling very {weet. After cach of thefe Flowers 
f{ucceeds one large Seed, of an oval Figure, like brown Velvet, folid, ine 
clofed in a brown membranaceous hairy Seed-Veflel, having five capfular 
brotea Leaves, ftanding out on every fide under it like the Rays of a 
tar. 
It grows on the plain grounds near the River fide, by the Town of 
St. Fago.de la Vega, and in other places of the Ifland, very plentifully. 
It Flowers in May.and December, when the humming Birds are very bufie 
about it. feeding on the Farina {ticking to the Flowers. 
It has a pleafanc {mell, when in Flower; much like that of the Narciffus 
Mediolutens, call'd Piffaulitz at Montpelier. 
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