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The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 157 
It grows in great plenty flowring in November, in the open grounds, at 
Guanaboa, and among the prickly Pears, and other Bufhes near thie old Mo- 
naftery of the Town of St, Fago dela Vega. 
XVIIL Convolvuulis minor repens, numuuilarie folio, flore cwruleo. Cat. p. 58. 
Tab. 99. Fig. 2. 
From a fmall, ftringy, and fibrous Root, {pring, long, trailing Stalks, 
taking Root here and there, where they touch the ground, and putting forth, 
alternatively, at {mall, unequal diftances, Leaves, almoft round, like thofe 
of the Nuwwularia minor flore purpurafcente. They are three quarters of af 
Inch long, and an Inch Broad, having a {nip, or {mall notch at the end, and 
a quarter of an Inch long brown Foot-Stalks Fx alis foliorum, come the 
Flowers, ftanding on fhort Foot-Stalks. They arc monopetalous, Bell fa- 
fhion’d, of alight blue colour, after which follows a brown Cap/ula, contain- 
ing two or three brown Seeds. 
ic grows very plentifully after Rain, in the Town Savanna’s, and in 
Barbados. 
XIX. Convolvulus rectus minor, folio angnufto candicante. Cat. p. 58. Tab. 99: 
Fizg.3. An Convolvulus Americanus, minimus, villofus, helianthemi folio. Plum. 
Tourncf. Inft. p. 84 ? 
This has a long ftraight Root, which thoors forth feveral fmall, tound 
Stalks, ftraight up, rifing to {carce a Foot high, covered over with a hairy 
Down, the Leaves ftand iregularly along the Stem. They are an Inch long, 
and not over a quarter of an Inch broad, fmooth, and havea hairy Down ort 
their underfide. The Flowers come out ex alis foliorum, are monopetalous, 
Bell fafhion’'d, white, with fome Stamina in the middle, and a Calix under+ 
neath, by which it adheres to the Stalk, to this follows a pentaphyllous 
Capfula containing feveral Seeds. 
It grows plentifully in the Savanna, near the Town of St. azo de la Vega, 
after Rain. 7 
XX. Rapunculus fruticofus, foliis oblongis, integris, villofis, ex adverfo fitis, floré 
purpureo villofo. Cat. p. 58. Tab. 100. Fig. 1. 
This Shrub lad many fmall Stalks, rifing from the fame Root, to about 
four or five Foot high, each whercof was {quare, about the bignefs of ones 
little Finger, having under a fmooth, clay coloured Bark, a hard, whitifh 
Wood, and very large Pith, with many tranf{verfe dividing membranes. The 
Leaves were fet oppofite to one another at the Joints, which were two lfches, 
or an Inch afunder. Each of them had one third part of an Inch long, rough 
Foot-Stalk, was about two Inches long, and one Inch broad in the middle, 
where broadeft: of a dark green colour, rough, or fet all over with thort 
whitifh Hairs. Ex alis foliorum came the Flowers,ftanding on purplith,rough, 
one third part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, They were large and mono- 
petalous, difform, didided at tlie ends into feveral Segments, being tubulous, 
purple, and {et very thick over, with {trong ihort Hair. The bottom of the 
Flower fwelling, there comes in it a Capfula or Seed-Veflel, in whicls lics 
much {mall, oblong, crooked, brownith Secd. 
It grew in the mountainous Woods of this Ifland. 
XXII. Rapunculus fruticofus linifolins, flore luteo fpeciofo, foliis ex adverfo fitis, 
Cat. p.58- Tab.to1. Fig. t. 
This rifesto about four or five Foot high, being branched on every 
Hand. The Branches and Twigs are woody, fet with Leaves oppofite to 
one another at an Inches diflance from each is They ftand on an eighth 
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