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one another, and each of them beginning very narrow, are at their ends 
round and broad; a little indented about the edges. After thefe follow large 
taper Pods ftanding like Horns, agreeing in every thing with thofe of the 
other Apocynum’'s. . 
It raesicle the edges of the Woods in the Town Savanaas, and in {everal 
other places of this Ifland, as well as the Caribes. 
XIX. Apocynum minus fcandens, flore albo, fingulis petalis, viridi ftria notatis, 
. p. 89. 
ee stalk of this is near the Root, round, as big asa Hens-Quill, of an 
afh colour, turning and winding its {elf round any Tree or Shrub it comes 
near, and rifing four or five Foot high ; towards the top on its Branches are 
many Leaves fet in Tufts on oppofite fides of the Stalk. They have a quar- 
ter of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, are an Inch long, and one quarter of an 
Inch broad, towards an Oval fhape though pointed, of a deep green colour, 
and {mooth. The Flowers come out ex alis foliorum, being {everal, taking 
original from the fame Center, viz. an eighth part of an Inch long Foot- 
Stalk. ‘They are pentapetalous, long, {mall, and white, with a green ftreak 
in the middle of each of the Petala, and yellowith Stamina in the middle. 
After which follows in a pyramidal Husk or Seed-Veflel made up of one 
membrane, Seeds, lying in a filken Down both Seeds and Seed-Veffels, being 
exactly like thofe of the other Apocyuums only {imaller, 
All parts of this Plant are very milky. 
It grew in the Town Savanna among the Ebonies. 
XX. Apocyno affine, Gelfeminum Indicum hederacewm herbacenm tetraphyllum, folto 
fubrotundo acuminato. Cat. p.90. Pfendo apocynum {emine comprefso cy alato fe- 
cundum, claviculatum tetraphyllum Barbadienfe, flore luteo tuberofo inodoro breviori- 
bus foliis. Bob. hift.Ox. p.3. p. 612. -Bignonia Americana, capreolis aduncis ora 
nata filiqua longifima. Tournefort. Inft. p. 164. 
This had a wooddy Stalk, about the bignefS of a Hens-Quill, covered 
with a fmooth Bark of an afh colour, climbing any Trees or Hedges it came 
near, at about three or four Inches diftance putting forth Leaves fianding op- 
pofite to one another on an half Inch long Foot-Stalks. The Leaves were 
thining, roundifh, about an Inch and an half long, and near as broad near 
the middle where broadeft, {mooth,. and fometimes, though rarely, in 
dented about the edges. At the ends of the Foot-Stalks came our {mall 
caprecli, by which it took hold of any thing it came near. 
it grew in the Ifland of Barbados very plentifully every where. 
XXI. Nuwimularia minima flore alto. Cat. p. 90. Tab. 131, Fig. 3. 
This little Plant has feveral creeping Stalks, and many trailing Branches, 
with which it covers large {pots of Ground. ‘The Branches are round, 
brown, {mall, and take hold by fibrous Roots of the furface of the Farth, 
The Branches ends are fet very thick with Leaves alternatively, they are 
round, and like thofe of Nummularia minor flore purpurafcente, CB. only 
{maller. The Flowers come out ex alis foliornm, ftand on a fhort Foot 
Stalk, are whitifh, pentapetalous, with fome Stamina in the middle, in a 
green oblong Calyx. 
It grows very copioufly in the Savanna near the Town of St. Fago de la 
Vega, in thofe places where Rain has ftood after a wet Seafon. 
XXII. Nummularia faxatilis minima repens, foliis. crenatis villofis, floribus 
albis. Cat. p90. 7 ab.131. Fig.4. AnVitis Idea paluftris Americana foliis pare 
Vis circinatis, elegantiffime crenatis ex infula Faimaicana. Plakenct. Alp. 392 2 
