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ooth, brown Bark. It has many Branches befet on every Hand with 
aes three always ftanding together, ona three quarters of an Inch 
long common Footftalk; they are three quarters of an Inch long and 
halfas broad, fmooth, of a yellowifh green Colour, that one oppofite to 
the Footftalk, or in the Middle being the largeft. Ex ali Foliorum come 
the Flowers, which are Papylionaceous, of a dirty yellow Colour, ftand- 
ing on a fhort Footftalk, and to them follow Inch long brown Pods, nar- 
row towards the Footftalk, ventriofe or big at the Ends, containing five 
or fix irregularly figur’d Seeds, being {mall, comprefs’d, each having a 
Notch or Defeét in them, and all making a Noife when ripe, like a 
Ae crew ina Wood between the Town Savanna and two Mile Wood. 
VII. Crotalaria trifolia fruiicofa, folijs rotundis incants, floribus [picatis e 
Viridi-lateis, fructu pubefcente. Cat. p. 141. Raij Hift. Vi ol. 3. p- 466. Tab, 
179. Fig.1. An Ononis natrixs dicta f ute[cens annua Americana flore Luteo |pi- 
cato, folsjs Meliloti Italice, fubhir[uta major Breyn. prod. 2. p.7 ? Anonis A- 
mericana, folio latiori, [ubrotundo, T ournef. el. p. Juft. P- 409. Crotalaria Afi- 
atica trifolia fubhirfata. H. Leyd. App. p. 663 2 Cytifus ZReylanicus folio la- 
barni Amman. Raij. Hift. Append. 1893. ; 
This Shrub has a fmall, fhort Root having fewFibers, The Stalk is round 
and green, rifing four Foot high, the Leaves ftand on the Branches with- 
out any Order, being almoft round, always three together on the fame 
Inch long Footftalk, being hoary, and of a yellowifh green Colour, the 
Flowers are many, on the Ends of the Branches {pike fafhion, greenifh 
ellow and Papylionaceous, and to them follow as many rough or very 
hoary at firft green and afterwards brown, fweil’d, Pods like thofe of the 
Crotalaria of which this may be reckon’d one. In thefe Pods lie feveral 
Seeds, fmall, flat, irregularly figur’d, of a reddifh brown Colour, there 
being a Notch in each of them, and being fomewhat like the Seeds of 
Fenugreek. 
It grows at the Crefcent Plantation, in the Plantations at Guasaboa, 
and in feveral other Places of this Iand, as well as Barbadoes. 
VIII. Colutea affinis fruticofa, floribus {picatis purpurafcentibus, filiquis in- 
curvis, ecujus Tintkura Indigo conficitur, Cat, Fam. p. 141. Tab. 179. Fig. 2. 
Emerus Americanus filigua incurva. Tournef. Inft. p. 666. Coronilla Indica ex 
qua Indigo Volck. p. 124+ Indigo fera rotundifolia. Munt. Aard p.229. An In- 
digo fera coluteocdes. Ej. ib. Phyt. cur.Caachira. Annil herba loto affinis ex qua 
Tudigo feu paftellus ad colorandas lanas conficitur. Surian. Anil. Pommet. p. 151. 
Inaicum officin. Dale. p.323. Herb outof whichis made Indico of Dam- 
pir. cap.8. Anil. Muf. Suammerd. p.13. An arbre tint. Ogilby Africa. p. 345. 
Indigo. 
This Shrub has a 5 or 6 Inches long Root, white, woody,round, crooked 
and hard, fending out feveral Fibrils and fmaller Branches here and there ; 
it fends up feveral Stalks cover’d with a brown Bark, round, woody and 
rifling a Foot and an half high, very Bufhy ; the Leaves come out along 
the Branches alternatively, at half an Inch’s Diftance, they are wing’d, 
the Middle Rib is more than an Inch long, the Pinnethree Pair with one 
odd; they are oppofite one to the other, have very fmall Footitalks, are 
one third of an Inch long and half as broad near the End, where they 
are round and broadeft, fmooth, of a bluifh grzen Colour and un- 
fayory Scent. Ex alis Foliorum come the Flowers, on fmall half Inch 
long 
