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170. © The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
It grows running along the Rocks, in fhady Woods, in fixteen Mile 
Walk, and elfewhere. 
XLVII. Colocafia hederacea fterilis minor folio cordato. Plumier. Cat. p. 63. 
Arum Americanum {candens foliis cordiformibus. Tournef. Inft. p. 159. 
This has a green, juicy, jointed Stem, of about the bignefS of a Goofe- 
Quill, being round and {mooth, climbing by means of its large Clavicles 
it has at joints to about thirty or forty Foot high, and hanging down again 
to the ground. At every three or four Inches, it puts out Leaves ftanding 
on two Inches long, green Foot-Stalks, the Leaf it felf being cordated, or 
of the fhape of a Heart, three Inches long, and two broad at the round 
Bafe, where broadeft, and whence it decreafes, ending in a point, being 
{mooth, or equal on the edges, very juicy, green, and having feveral Striz, 
or {mall fuperficial Veins appearing on it, being lucid and fhining, and very 
pleafant to look on. What Fruit or Flower it bears 1 know not, never 
having {een them, though I have frequently obferved it, both in Famaica, 
and the Caribes, but believe with F. Plumicr it is a Colocafia, and therefore 
have placed it here. 
It grows in the woody fhady places of Famaica, and the Caribes. 
Crap: VII: 
Of Verticillated Plants. 
Hereare very few verticillated Plants wild inthe Ifland of Famai- 
ca, at leaft I met with very few of that Tribe there, as will ap- 
pear to any one who perutes the following Obfervations, and yet 
there are (I think) more of the Ewropean Verticillate, that there 
grow,and thrive well by Culture, than of any Tribe whatever ; 
for there is Rofemary, Lavender, Marjoram, Pennyroyal, Thyme, Sage, Sa- 
voury, cc. in great plenty, whereas many other Kinds of as ufeful Plants 
are very hardly raifed, or brought to perfection. 
I. Puleginm fruticofum erechum verticillis denfiffimis. Cat. p. 64. 
This has a four Inch long, reddifh Root, with fome lateral fibers, from 
which arifes a {quare, woody, brown Stalk, three or four Foot high, 
branch’'d towards the top, and thick fet at the Joints, which are an Inch 
afunder, with long undivided Leaves, an Inch long, and not over the eighth 
part of an Inch broad in the middle, like thofe of Hyfop, of a yellowith 
green colour, {mooth, and having a fell like thofe of St. fobn’s Wort. 
The Flowers are many, fet round the Joints in a large, round knob, are not 
galeated, but only have Lips divided into four parts, white, and fet very 
clofe together, making a very large, round knob, and in the Calyx of the 
Flower follows brown, {mall, oblong Seeds, each of which has a {mall Furs 
row, or Canalure on one fide, and is round onthe other, in that refembling 
.the ordinary Wheat. 
It grows very plentifully in the Fown Savannas, and Flowers the whole 
year round. 
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