The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 21 
Cuap. XIif. 
Of Plants that are rough leav'd, called Afperifoliz. 
I. Eliotropium arboreum, maritimum, tomentofum, Gnaphalii Amert- 
: cani foliis. Cat. p. 93 
This rofe to a Man’s heighth, had a ftraight Stem or 
Trunc, wooddy, firm, and folid, as big as ones thumb, 
with a pretty large Pith, a Bark all covered over with 
Down or Zomentum, {mooth and white. Towards the rop it had many 
Branches going out on every Hand, which are very thick fet with a great 
number of Leaves round them, being each of them three Inches long, and 
not over an eighth part of an Inch broad near the round top, where broad- 
eft, being at the beginning narrow, and increafing to that place. They are 
fucculent, thick, and covered over with very much white Down, looking 
fomething like the Leaves of the Gwaphalium <Americanum. The tops 
are branched out into feveral Spikes of white Flowers, contorted like a 
Scorpions Tail, or the eliotropes, to which in every thing they are 
like. 
It grew on a fandy Bay to the Eaftward of Bridgetown in Barbades, and 
on the Sea fide between Paffage Fort and Old Harbour in Famaica. 
WN. Heliotropium maritimum minus, folio glauco, flore albo. Cat. p. 94. Tab. 
132. Fig. 3., Heliotropium Americanum minus glabrum folio angufto glauco 
Breyn. prod.r. p. 55. Lleliotropinm Americanum procumbens facie sini umbili- 
catt. Herm. par, Bat.p. 183. Heliotropium monofpermum Indicum procumbens 
glaucophyllon floribus albis. Plukenet. Phyt. Tab. 36. Fig. 3. Almag.p. 182. An 
Lotecy Xochiuh. Hernandez. p.432? Wild Sampier. 
This has feveral three or four Inches long Roots, white, and when 
united fending up three or four Branches of the fame.length. The Stalks 
of it are round, green, juicy, and white, on the furface. The Leaves are 
fer very thick in Tufts, fome f{maller, and others bigger, beinz an Inch 
long, and a quarter of an Inch broad in the middle where broadeft, juicy, 
pale green, covered over with a white Meal, glaucous, being like the 
Leaves of Echium maritimum, P. B. or Cerinthe. Towards the tops of 
the Branches ftand the Flowers. ‘They are many on the upperfide of the 
Stalk, white, and turn’d like a Scorpions Tail, or thofe of the other 
TLeliotropes. 
It grows in Salt marfhy Grounds near the Sea-fide, by the Canoes, old 
Harbour and Paffage Fort. 7 | 
When I printed my Catalogue of Famaica Plants, I did not think Doétor 
Plukenet had any where figured this Plant, neither fhould I now, (his figure 
being not very exact) did he not fay fo in his Manriffa, p. 100. where he 
blames me for taking the fynonimous names I have in my Catalogue from 
his Phytographia, whereas he has none there but his own name, and one out 
of Breynius’s fecond Prodromus, which was not then taken notice of by me; 
and therefore is not mentioned. 
IM. Heliotropium = Americanum cerulenm, folits hormini. Dodarts Cat. p. 94. 
Wild Clary. 
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