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they decreafe to both Extremes, being fmooth and equal on the Edges 
On the Ends. of the. Twigs come the Flowers in {mall Bunches, beirig 
oblong and of-a-pale Colour, to which follow feveral oblong Berries 
biggeft in the Middle, and when dry channel’d with Furrows, having 
within it two flat-oblong Acini, which. are pretty large. . 
it grew on the red Hills over Mr. Batchelor’s Houle. 
XXXV. Lycium. buxi folio. rotandiore integro flore purpareo tetrapetalo, 
Spinis validifimis G longis armatum. Cat. Jam. p.17i. Tab. 210. Fig. 33 
Raij. Hift, Vol. 3. Dendr. p.73. An Alaternus Americana, [pinofiffima, baxi 
folio. Plam. Tournef. Injt. p- §96 ° pl. Amer. p.17? An Berberdis facie ar- 
bufcula ee Spinofa foltjs lycto nonnihil fimilibus. Herm, par. Bat. pr. 
p. 217! 
This Shrub has a Stem or Trunc as big as ones Thumb, cover’d 
with a fmooth, greenifh Bark, branch’d now and. then into feveral 
Twigs, rifing to three or four Foot high, along which, come out al- 
ternatively the Leaves, at three quarters of an Inch’s Diltance, they 
are almoft oval, ftand on very fhort Footftalks, have a three 
quarters of an Inch long Prickle almoft at every Leaf, whichis 
three quarters of an Inch long and half as broad, thick, fmooth, 
fhining, of a yellowifh green Colour’ ~The Flowers come out ex 
alis Folicrum, being many on fhhort Foorltalks, tetrapetalous and:purple, 
with yellow Stamina, --- 
It grew near the Hog-Holes in the Savanna by the Town of St. Fago 
dela Vega. 
Whoever compares the Figure and Defcription of this with thofe of 
the Lyctum Myrti folsjs fubrotundis Americanum lactefcens limbis foliorum ar- 
gentatis. Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 97. Fig. 7. Alm. p.234. will find them diffe- 
rent, tho’ Dr. Pluk. p. 122. of his Manréffa thinks they may be the 
fame. 
XXXVI. Evonymus, caudice non ramofo, folio alato, fratta ‘rotundo tripy- 
reno. Cat. Fam, p. ¥7%. Tab. 210. Fig. 2; 6 3: Ras} Hist. Vol. 3. Dendr. 
70. : 
This ‘Tree has feveral Truncs as-thick as’/ones Arm, by which ic 
rifes to twenty Foot high, without any Branches, ’tis cover’d witha 
reddifh brown, fmooth Bark,’ except the Remainders of the Foot- 
ftalks of the Leaves. Towards the Top come out on all Sides of 
the Trunc, feveral fmall two Inches long Stalks or Branches, fuftain- 
ing on all Hands, ‘a firft green, then purplifh round Fruit, which when 
it comes to its Maturity, is as big as a great Garden-Pea. The Foot- 
ftalk: by which ’tis faften’d to the Stalk, is half an Inch long, and 
the ourward Skin breaks into three Membranes expanding themf{elves 
each of them having a Creft‘or Rifing in their Middle, and fhewing 
three almoft triangular diftin& Kernels, cover’d over witha thin fcar- 
let Pulp. On the Tops of the: Branches come, without any Order, the 
Leaves, they are winged, the middle Rib a Foot long, the Pinnx are 
fet at an Inch’s Dittance, oppofite one to the other, with an odd one at 
the End, they are an Inch anda half long, and'an Inch broad in the Mid- 
dle, where broadeft, are pointed at.the Ends, and ftand on an eighth of 
an Inch'long Footftalks, being fmooth, and of adark green Colour. 
They ave found in’ feveral Places about theCram/ Plantation. 
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