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This rifes by a woody, brown coloured Stem, having feveral green, rough 
Branches, to four Foot high. The Leaves come out on every fide, without 
any order, having two Appendices at parting from the Stalk fomething 
like a Jotws, three always together on the fame Inch and an half long Foot- 
Stalk, the upper one being longer, and having an Inch long Foot-Staik pro- 
per to its felf, or being plac’d an ‘nch further chan the two under ones, which 
are rounder, and oppofite to one another. ‘hey are all thin, {mooth a- 
bove, of a dark green colour, and rough underneath. The tops are long 
Spikes of Flowers thinly plac’d on an haif {Inch long Foot-Stalk, papilio- 
naceous, of a pale purple colour. After thefe follow feveral Pods, ilender, 
rough, jointed, and varioufly turn’d and diftorted. 
It grows in a Gully towards the Angels beyond the Town of St. Fazo 
de la Vega, and in the Paths among the Sugar-Canes in feveral places of 
this Ifland. 
XXIV. FLedyfarum triphyllum fruticofum minus. Cat. p. 73. Tab. 118. 
Fig t. 
“This had a very {trong Root and Stem, from whence went feveral Branches 
about three Inches long, having here and there alternatively Leaves very 
like the former, three always together on the fame half an Inch long com- 
mon /etiolus, each whereof were about half an Inch long, {mooth, of a 
yellowifh green colour, and of an Oval fhape. Ex alis foliorum rife Foot-Stalks, 
about three Inches long, fultaining fome papylionaceous Flowers, and I 
gue{s Sceds in Pods, as the former, although { never {aw them, and there- 
fore cannot pofitively affert that it belongs to this place. 
I found itin Jamaica, but donot remember where, neither can | give amore 
particular account of it, 
XXV. Hedyfarum triphyllum fruticofum [upinum, fore purpureo. Cat. p. 73. 
Tab.«19. Fig. 2. Onobrychis Americana floribus |picatis foliis ternis cane[cens 
tibus filiculis alperis Plukenet. Alm. p.278. Phyt. Tab..308. F304: 
This has a long, fimall, woody Root, fending forth feveral Foot long 
Branches, lying along the ground, whofe Stalks are reddith, rough, round, 
and woody, having at unequal diftances, on half an Inch long Foot-Stalks, 
their Leaves, which are always three together, whereof that in the middle 
isthe longeft, and all are green above, and more pale beneath. The tops 
of the Branches are Spikes of purple, papylionaceous Flowers, to which 
follows geniculated, crooked Pods, forming a Semicircle, of a brown co- 
lour, cach joint of which is faftned to that next it, by a very {mall Ifthmus, 
whereby its adhefion to it is fo eafic, that by its roughnefs {ticking to any 
Garment, they leave onc another, whence the Portuzuefe Name Erva d’ Amor. 
Every joint contains one pale yellow Seed. 
It grows every where in the Woods, efpecially in thofe of the Savannas. 
The Root is hot, and a Decodétion of it in fair water, or other Vehicle, 
is onc of the beft Remedies againft a cold Flux of the Belly. The fume or 
fmoak of the Leaves received with a covered Head, cures the Head-ach 
Which comes from Cold and Catarrhs. Pio. 
XXVI. Hedyfarum minus diphyllum, flore luteo. Cat. p. 73. 
This Plant, froma fmall woody Root, puts out {everal three or four 
Inches long Branches, trailing, or lying onthe furface of the ground, having © 
feveral Leaves, two always ftanding on the fame Foot-Stalk, of a yellowifh 
green colour, anda little hirfure. The Flowers are yellow, and papyliona- 
ccous, The Pods are a little crooked, hirfute, or rough like a half 
Bbb Moon, 
