The Natural Hifiory of JAMAICA, 
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- It grew plentifully on the Banks of the Rio Codre below the Town, in 
the Road between Paffage Fort and the’Town, and ina Gully hard by 
the Church in St. Dorothy’s Parifh. | 
XIX. Acer Scandens minus, apocyni facie, folio fubrotundo. Cat. Fam, p. 
138. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. dendr. p.94. Tab. 162. Fig. 2. An Acer Scandens, 
ye folio, flore ex aureo coccineo. Plum. Inft. Tournef. p.615. pl, Amer, 
e I0- 
: This Shrub which was fomewhat inFace like the Apocynum Scandens magus 
folio fubrotunds, rifes to about four or five Foot high, with round Stalks, 
which turn about any neighbouring Helps, and rife by a Stalk as big as a 
Goofe Quill, cover’d with a grey, fmooth, Bark. They have Leaves 
oppofite to one another, ftanding at the Joints, which are three or 
four Inches diftant from one another, they are almoft round, about 
two Inches and a half long, and one and a half broad near the round 
Bafe, where broadeft, and whence they decreafe to a blunt Point, 
being {mooth, equal on the Edges, with one Middle and feveral 
traniverfe Ribs. Oppofite to the Leaves, come Inch long Footitalks, fu- 
itaining Umbel Fafhion on half Inch long Petsolz feveral Flowers, made 
up of five Petala, or Leaves, each Flower’s Leaf being Spoon Fafhion’d, 
only not hollow, or beginning very narrow, and being round at their Ends 
and broad, indented about their Edges, and after thefe follow the Fruit, 
being feveral Seeds joined together with feveral Membranes ftanding out 
from them like the Seeds of the Acers. | 
It grew on the Entrance of the Red Hills in the Road to Gaazaboa, and 
in Barbadoes. 
Dr. Plukenet. p. 26.0f his Mantiffa, doubts if this be not his Arbu/cula 
claviculata periploce folijs hepta phyllos, ex infula Johanna, “Vhat ‘Title can 
never agree to this Defcription, 
XX. Aceri vel palitaro affinis, angufto oblongo liguftri folio, flore tetrapetalo 
herbaceo: Cat. Fam. p. 138. Ravj. Hift. Vol. 3. dendr. p. 94. Tab. 162. Fig. 3. 
Triopteris India Ortentalts feuArbufcula amygdale nane folijs difpermos filiqua. 
Thtafpios Diofcoridis, ternis amplioribus alis Wanella C eylanenfibus dicta. Pluk. 
Alm: po 377. Triopteris famaicenfis anguito falicis folso Fructu minore fufco 
Ejufa: ib. An Triopteris Indiz ortentalis, chamenertj [plendentibus folijs Ve- 
vaulleeMalabaroram, Ej. maxt. p. 185 ? Av Triopteris Eleagni folijs vifcofis le- 
revirentibus Amevicama. Ej. ib. p. 185? Am Acer minus fructu orbicutart 
faticis folio Brafilianum feu folijs & fructibus majoribus Breya. p. 2. 
“This ‘Tree’ rifes not over 10 0r 12 Foot high, has a Trunc, or feveral 
Trunes from the fame Root, of the Bignefs of one’s Leg,cover’d with a light 
brown outward Bark, which fticks not, except in fome few fuperficial Places 
to the Wood; hanging loofely toit, like uncarded Hemp , its Branches 
are upright, redifh brown, having many Leaves on their Tops, which 
are of feveral Sizes, as to Length and Breadth, fome whereof are longer, 
others: fhorter, but for the moft part three Inches long and half an Inch 
broad near the Top, where broadeft, fmoorh, hard, beginning narrow, 
without any Footftalks, andof a darkifh green, Colour. The Flowers or 
Rudiments of che Fruit are many together on the Tops of the Twigs, each 
ona {mall Footftalk, being green, fmall, almoft round, made up of four 
channel’d folid Petala, fhort and thick, in the Center of which comes a 
large green Stylus, to which follow two, three or four round, brown, 
Peafé, lying-in a flat Seed Veffel, or Follicle, having two, three, or more 
membranous extant Appendices, either flat as the Seed Veflel of the Paliu- 
rus, or ftanding out, as thofe of the Dogwood Tree, or Laferpitium, like 
the Sails of a Windmill. It 
