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220 ‘The Natural Hifor'y of ‘Jamaica. 
thofe of verticillated Plants, without Foort-Stalks. They fland in a reddifh 
Calyx, are pentapetalous, and of a whitifh colour. After thefe follow {e- 
veral roundifh Heads, each being made up of five Follicles or Cells, ftand- 
ing clofe by one another, in each of which is lodged a finall irregularly 
figur’d triangular black Seed. | 
It grows round the Town amongft the Savazva Buihes, and in the 
Caribes. 
This feems to be quite different from the Malva orientalis elatior, Gc. 
Plukenct. thyt. Tab. 44. Fig. 5. though the Doctor, p. 10. of his Mantiffa 
thinks ic may be the fame. 
XV. Alutilon herbaceum procumbens, betonice folio, flore purpureo. Cat. p.97. 
Tab.139. Figet. 
This has wooddy, tough, round, red Stalks, two Foot long, fpread, and 
lying on all fides, on the {urface of the Ground, having many Branches, fer 
with very few Leaves, on one quarter of an Inch long Foot-Stalks. They 
are an Inch long, one quarter of an Inch broad, at round Bafe, where broad- 
eft, and whence they diminiih till they endin a point, being {mooth, a lic. 
tle indented about the edges, having feveral Veins on the backfide, and 
fomewhat refembling Betony Leaves. The Flowers ftand on the ends of 
the Branches, they are purple with yellow S¢zmina in the middle, like thofe 
of other Mallows. After cach of thefe follows a five pointed pyramidal 
Capfala, in which are five Cells, in each of which lies a cornered, fimall, 
brown Seed. 
It grew in gravelly low Ground near Mr. Batchelor’s Houfe. 
The Defeription and Figure of this Platit fhew it to be very different 
from the Alcea pufilla fupina geranii exigui maritimi folio, Gc. Plakenct Alm. 
p. 14. Phyt. Tab.132. Fig. 4. though in p.6. of the Dottor’s Muntiffc he 
thinks it may be this. : 
XVI. Abatilo afinis arbor althee folio, cnjus frucins eff ftyli apex auétus, 
quatuor vel quingue filiquis hirfutis, funis ad inftar in foiram convolutis, conftams. 
Cut. p. 97. 
This Tree is about fifteen Foot high, has a Trunc as large as ones Leg, a 
fmooth white Bark, and is leaning or inclining towards the Ground. Its 
Leaves are two Inches and an half long, and one Inch and three quarters 
over ftom a found btoad Bafe, ending i1a point fhipt, or ferrated about the 
edges, having feveral pretty high Ribs on its under fide, being foft, of a 
yellowith green colour, ‘downy, and like Althea Leaves. At the topsof the 
Branches come the Flowers, ftatiding itt a tough green Cube, they are white, 
ftanding like thofe of the Digztales, only {maller, out of the Center of which 
comes a long Stylus or String,having a roundith hirfute Button at the end, which 
augments and becomes its Fruit, and confifts of four or five round, {imall, 
brown Silique, Ropes, or rather long Follicles, hairy, dark brown colour’d, 
very hard wreath’d, or roll‘d fpirally one by another, and containing with- 
in them great plenty of round, brown Seed, which falls out of the end 
of each of thefe Pods, Follicles, or Ropes, which open themfelves for chat 
purpofe. | 
_ It grows near Mr. Batchelor’s Plantation, on the Red Hills‘ every where 
on the Road to Gaanatoa, and other places of this Ifland. 
The Leaves are us'd in Deco¢tions for Clyfters with Oil and Sale; as 
thofe of Mallows. : 
It feems rather to belong to this Tribe, chan to the Siliquofe one, be- 
vaufe the Follicles of .4¢utilon, differ only in fhape from thefe. 
It 
