The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. 
159. 
round, flat, brown Seeds, which are thrown out of the Cap/ula with violence, 
when ’tis either touch’d or wetted onthe end. : 
It grew about the Town, in many places, amongft the Bufhes. 
XXV. Flori Cardinalis five rapuntio affinis anomala, caule quadrato, flore coe- 
cinco, capfula pyramidali. Cat.p.59. Euphrafta alfines majori folio, lore galeato 
pallide luteo Famaicenfis. Plukenct. Almag. p. 142. Phytogr. Tab. 279. Fiz. 6. 
An Cara-Caniram, HL. M. part.9. Tab. 56 ? : 
The Root was fhort, thick, and divided into three or four long, reddifh, 
ftrong Branches. The Stalk was {quare, green, jointed, three or four Foot 
high: flender, and fcarce able, without help, to hold its felf up, having 
Branches coming out at its joints, fet oppofite to one another, at every two 
Inches diftance. At every Joint were large Leaves, ftanding on an Inch and 
anhalf long Foot-Stalks. They were two Inches long, and one broad, near the 
Foot-Stalk, where they were broadeft. They were a little rough, had a 
point oppofite to the Foot-Stalk, and were of a dirty green colour. The 
Leaves on. the fmaller Branches were lefler, but of the fame fhape. The 
Flowers ftand in Spikes on the ends of the Branches, at half an Inches di- 
{tance one from another, being of a very curious Scarlet colour, three quar- 
ters of an Inch long, tubulous, widening towardsthe top, where they were 
open, withfome Stamina. After thefe follow’d three or four round, flat, 
black Seeds, having a notch or defect in every one of them, and ly- 
ing in a greenifh Cupfula, pyramidal, being round at top, and fharp at 
bottom. | 
It grew in a {andy place, near the Rio Cobre, juft by the Town of St. Fago 
de la Vega. 
XXVI. Rapunculo afinis anomala vafculifera, folio oblongo, ferrato, flore cotci- 
cinco tubulofe, femine minuto, oblongo, luteo. Cat.p.59. Tab. 102. Fig. i. 
This Plant has feveral ftrong, fhort, blackifh Roots, fending forth a 
round, woody Stem, having a clay célourd Bark, with fome Sulcé in it, 
rifing three or four Inches high, having at the top very many oblong Leaves, 
ftanding very thick, without any order, on a quarterfof an Inch long Foot- 
Stalks, cover'd: with a reddifh Wooll like Mofs. Each of thefe Leaves 
is {even Inches long, an Inch and an half broad, near the farther end, where 
broadeft they beginning very narrow, widen themfelves to near the end, 
where they ftraiten again, and end ina point, being much fnipt about the 
edges. Ex alis foliorum comes out a {mall Stalk, divided into feveral 
Branches, having above a five pointed green Calix, an Inch long tubulous, 
{earlet colour’d Flower, fomething like thofe of Periclymenam, with fome 
ellowifh Stamina, after which follows, in a fhort, fungous, cornered Seed- 
Veflel, having no diftin@ Cells, but one cavity, a great many {mall, oblong, 
yellowifh Seeds. 
It grows in the Crannics of the fteep Rocks, in the Road going to fix- 
teen Mile Walk. 
XXVIL Stramonia altera major five Tatura quibufdam. J. B. Cat. p. $9. 
Stramonium frattu {pinofo, oblongoflore albo T ourncf. Inft. p19. An Stramoni- 
nm majus purpurcum Park. par. p. 36? Stramoninm majus album cy vulzatins 
fruét oblongo fpinofo, Bobart. hifk. Ox. part. 43. p- 697. Thorny Apples of 
Peru. 3 
I could not obferve any difference between this Plant found here, and that 
defcrib’'d by Authors.: 
It 
