oe) 
A. The Natural Hiftory of jamaica. . 
where broadeft. They are fmooth, and of a yellowith green colour. Whar 
che Flower and Fruit were I did not obferve, though 1 am apt to think, by 
its Leaves and Clavicles, it may be a Briony, of the Kindred of thofe 
defcrib'd before, and therefore I put it among them. 
This is not the Bryonia fideritidis folio multiplicz, difpermos, flore caruleo. 
Prom, Bon. fpei. Plukenet. Phyt. Tab.152. Fig.t. Alm. p.7%. as Dr. Plukenet 
fulpects in his Mantiffa. p. 33. 
Ix grew on the larger Trees in the Road to Guanaboa, and at Mrs. Guys 
Plantation. 
XXIV. Bryonia nigra fruticofa, racemi ramulis varie implicitis, atque caude 
feorpionis injiar, in fz contortis, baccis albis una vel altera nigra macula nota- 
tis. Cat.p.106. Tab. 143. Fig. 2. 
The Trunc of this Plant is nearthe Ground, as thick as ones Arm, woody, 
turning about any Trees it comes near, {mooth, hard, and of a dark brown 
colour, branci’d into a great many Twigs, crooked, and turning round any 
thing they come near, rifing feven or eight Foot high, towards the ends 
of which are plac’d alternatively the Leaves. ‘They ftand at half an Inches 
diftance from one another, on an eighth part of an Inch long Foot-Stalk, 
are an Inch long, and half an Inch broad in the middle where broadeft, 
{mooth, and of a dark brown colour, and alittle bowed back. At the tops 
of the Twigs come out feveral two or three Inches long crooked Branches, 
very variouily turn’d, twilted, and bow'd one within another, each of which 
is turtrd like a Scorpions Tail, or the Heliotropes, and fuftains ‘on none, 
or very {mall Foot-Stalks, a great many very fimall, five-pointed;  herbace- 
ous Flowers. . After thefe follow fo many Berries as big as Pepper Corns, 
round, firit green, but_when ripe, white, | markt with one’or two black 
fpecks, and containing, lodged in a Pulp, one or two black, round Acini 
er Seeds. 3 
It grows about the Palifadoes in the Town of St. fago de la Vega, and ih 
the Woods of the Savannas about any Trees or Shrubs it comes near. | 
Ihave perufed what Dr. Plukenct {ays in his Mantiff1, p. 187. concerning 
this Plant,.and remain of the fame Opinion as when I wrote my Catalogue, 
that itis what he calls Virga aurea Americana frute{cens glabra, foliis fubtus 
caftis, comis ad fummitatem in ramulos brachiatos implicatis. Phyt. Tab. 235. 
Fig. 6...Alm. p. 389. 
XXV. Bryonia nigra fruticofa, foliis integris ex adverfo pofitis, flore luteo, race- 
mofo, fatide. Cat. p.106. Tab.145. Fig. 1. : C39" 
This Plant has a Stem as large as ones: little Finger;: covered with an almoft 
{mooth, white Bark, creeping amongft the Treesit comes near, and: putting 
forth here and there Foot-long Branches -adorn’d with Leaves fet atan Inches 
diftance by pairs oppofite to one another, ftanding on an eighth part of an 
Inch long Foot-Stalks, They are three Inches long, and an Inch anda quarter 
broad, near the middle where broadeft, being of .a very green colour, 
{mooth, thin, having one middle, and feveral tran{verfe Ribs... The tops of 
the Branches are a great many bunches of Flowers, cach one flanding ona 
weak Foot-Stalk, in a green Calyx, being long, tetrapetalous, yellow, with 
yellow Stamina, and of a very unfavory {cent. 
tt grows on the Road fide, amongthe Woods, going to Guanabea very plen- 
tifuily. 
XXVI. Bryonia nigra frticofa, foliis lanrinis, floribus; racemofis, fpeciofis.: Cat. 
7. 106,:7ab 145. Fig. de | : 
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