ne 
173, 
VI. Ocimum rubrum medium. Cat. p. 65. | | 
_ The Plant growing here, agrees exactly to the Defcription of Ocimum In- 
dicum, Cluf. only it has neither fpotted, nor ferrated Leaves, and is not 
above half a Foot high, which perhaps may come from the variety of 
Soils, that defcribed by C/ufus, being the Plant raifed from Seed {ent from 
the Lndies. 
It grows every where in the moift places of the Low Lands, or Sa- 
vannas. . 
It is reckonéd a great Cordial, and therefore Diftill’d, and us‘d {everal 
other ways, efpecially by the Spaniards. 
VIN. Hormino afinis, foliis anguftis, glabris. Cat.p. 65. Tab. 102. Fig. 3. 
This had a fquare Stalk, hollow, with fome Branches, ftanding oppofite 
to one another, on which, at half an Inches diftance, were placed the Leaves 
Oppofire to one another likewife, being an Inch long, and about a quarter of 
an Inch broad, flightly indented about the edges. The Flowers came clofe 
together at top in a Spike, being large, and ftanding on one third part 
of an Inches Foot-Sralk. 
I found it in the North parts of this Ifland, whence I brought it to the 
South, and defcribed it fome days after, from whence comes the fhortnefS 
of my Defcription, and imperfections of my Obfervations about it. 
The indentures of the Leaves, Flowers fet clofé at top, cc. diftinguith 
this {ufficiently from Hormino accedens anguftilfimo folio Madera[patenfis, Pluken, 
- Phyt. Tab. 194. Fig. 7. 
VIL. Nepeta maxima, flore albo, {pica habitiori. Cat. p. 65. Tab.108. Fig.t. 
This rifes to feven Foot high, though fometimes, in a different Soil, it 
may not come to half that heighth, having a {quare, brown Stalk. Towards 
the top are many Branches oppofite to one another. The Leaves come.out at 
uncertain diftances, likewife oppofite to one another, {tanding on an half Inch 
Jong, green, hoary Foot-Stalk, (in which they differ from the Mentha Cataria 
auguftifolia major. C.B. pin) They are two Inches long, and three quarters 
broad at near the Bafe, where broadeft, whence they decreafe, ending in a 
round, blunt point. They are hoary, fnipt, or indented about the edges, 
of a whitilh green colour. x alis foliorum come fmall Stalks , having 
fometimes Leaves, and fometimes none, but many white labiated Flowers, 
fer clofe together round it, Spike fafhion. All the parts of this Plant {mell 
very ftrong, like Cat-Mint. 
It grows in the Ditches about the Town of St. Fago de la Vega. 
IX. Prunella elatior flore albo. Cat. p.65. Tab. 109. Fig.t. , 
This had feveral {mall, brown, two or three Inches long, fibrous Roots. 
The Stalk was quadrangular, jointed, green, two or three Foot high, being 
a little protuberant at each Joint, having towards the top. Leaves and 
Branches, ftanding oppofite to one another. The Leaves ftood on very 
fhort Foot-Stalks, were an Inch and an half long, and. three quarters of an 
Inch broad, of a pale green colour, with fome Hair on them, being very 
like thofe of Prunella. Ger. The tops were fhort Spikes of white, and 
tubulous Fowers, like thofe of this Kind, and after them follow’d among 
the Leaves, Capfula’s which were firft green, and then whitifh, containing {e- 
veral thin, round, membranaccous, black Seeds with a white Margin, lying 
on one another, 7 
It grew on a rocky Hill, juft over Colonel Bourden’s Houle beyond Gwa- 
naboa. 
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