' // hath a great number of Jtamina^ "which arejhorter 

 than the petals, terminated by fingk fummits. the gI- 



long Gvalgermen is terminated by a plain ftar4ike Jligma, 



, ivith ft:< ohtufe indentures. The germen afterward be- 



' comes an oval capfide^ with fix furrows, and fix cells, 



cpening with fx valves, ivhich fprcad in form of a far, 



including many angular feeds fixed to a column, furrounded 



■ with pulp. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 



. Linn?eus's twenty-third clafs, intitled Polygamia Mo- 

 male, female, and hermaphrodite 



■ noecia, having 

 . flowers on the lame plant. 

 The Si»EciES are, 



1, CtusiA {Flava) foliis aveniis corolhV tetrapetalis. 

 . Jacq. Amer. 34. Clufia whofe leaves have no veins, 

 ' and the flower has four petals. Terebinthus folio fm- 

 * gulafi, non alato, rotundo, fucculento flore pallide 

 . luteo. Sloan. Hift. Jam. 2. p. 97* Commonly called 

 '' Balfam-tree in America. 



2, Clusia {Venofa) foliis venofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 510. 



ivith veined leaves. Clufia flore rofeo minor, 



Clufta 



.' /ru6tu flavefcente. Plum. Nov, Gen. 2. 



There are three varieties of the firft fort, which difilT 



in the fize and colour of their flowers and fruit ; one 



"' •■ hath a white flower and fcarlet fruit, another hath a 



Rofe flower and a greenifti fruit, and a third hath a 



■' yellow fruit : but thefe arq fuppofed to be only fe- 



: minal variations, though Plumier has enumerated 



. them as difl:inft fpecies ; but as the plants have not 



' flowered in England, I can give no particular account 1 C LU T I A. This genus of plants was conftituted by 



of their difixjrence : the Angular beauty of the leaves | the learned Dr. Boerhaave, profeflTor of botany in the 



univcrfity of Leyden, in honour of Augerius Clute, 

 a curious botanift. 



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be well rooted before the cold weather comes on in 

 autumn. In winter thefe plants may be placed upon 

 ftandsin the dry ftovej but if in fummer they are 

 plunged into the tan-bed, they will make great pro- 



grefs, and their leaves will be large, in which confifts 

 the great beauty of thefe plants. 



The fecond fort was difcovered by the late Dr. Houf- 

 toun, growing naturally at Campeachy, from whence 

 he fent me fome dried famples and feeds : this hath 

 very large oval fpear-fhaped leaves, ending in points, 

 which are placed alternate on the branches, and have 

 feveral ribs, which go off from the midrib alternate, 

 rifing upward to the fide of the leaves ; and alfo a 

 great number of fmall veins, running horizontally be- 

 tween thefe ribs. The borders of the leaves are faw- 

 ed, and their under fides are of a fliining brown co- 

 lour. The branches are covered with a woolly down, 

 and the flowers are produced in loofe fpikes at the 

 end of the flioots ; thefe are fmaller than thofc 

 of the former fort, and are of a Rofe colour. This 

 tree rifes to the height of tw^enty feet^ it is propa- 

 gated by feeds, which mufl: be obtained from the 

 countries where the trees' naturally grow, for there 

 can be little hopes of obtaining any of the feeds in Eu- 

 rope. The plants are tender, fo muft be placed in 

 the tan-bed of the bark-ftove, otherwife they will not 

 thrive in this country \ and they muft be treated in 

 the fame manner as is directed for other tender plants 

 from the fame countries. 



1.- of this plant, renders it worthy of a place in every 

 - colledion of rare plants. 



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The firft fort is pretty common in the'BritiihIflands 

 of America, where the trees grow to the height of 

 ':. twenty feet, and fhoot out many branches on every 

 .^•, fide, garniflied with thick, round, fucculent leaves, 

 ';: placed oppofite. The flowers are produced at the 

 :| ends of the branches, each having a thick fucculent 

 cover: thefe are of diff'erent colours in diff'erent 

 ■< plants, fome being red, others yellow, fome white, 

 T and fome green. After the flowers are paft, they are 

 .^' fucceeded by oval fruit, which are alfo of difi'erent 



• /colours in diflerent plants : from every part of thefe 



trees there exfucles a fort of turpentine, which is 

 ' called in the Weft Indies Hog-gum ; becaufe they 

 ^ fay, that, when any of the wild hogs are wounded 



• they repair to thefe trees, and rub their wounded 

 parts againftthe ftems of them, till they haive anoint- 



• ed thenifelves with this turpentine, which heals their 



• • wounds, ■ The turpentine of thefe trees is alfo greatly 

 - recommended for the cure of fciaticas, by fpreading 

 v:i it on a cloth, and applying it as a plafter to the part 



affe6ted. 



t i The plants are at prefent very rare in Europe: there 



• were fome years ago fome fine plants in the garden of 

 ■ Mr. Parker, near Croyden in Surry, thefe were 

 - brought over,^ growing in tubs of earth from Barba- 

 •* does, which is the beft method of procuring them ; 



- .. for the feeds feldom fucceed, and the young plants 



. grow fo flowly, as not to make any figure in fome 



*■ years; but in the bringing over the plants, great 



' i care fhould be had, that they do not receive much 



• .wet; for as thefe plants have very fucculent ftems, 

 ^ inoifture will caufe them to rot. 



1'he plants are tender, fo they muft be conftantly 

 ■ kept in the ftovc, odierwife they will not live through 

 the winter in England ; they muft alfo be watered 

 '• very fparingly,' especially in winter, for they natu- 

 rally grow in thofe parts of the iflands, where it 

 '^ feldom rains, therefore they cannot bear ^ much 

 ' moifture. 



• They may be propagated by cuttings, which muft be 

 t laid to dry when they are cut oft' from the plants for 



a fortnight or three weeks, that the wounded part 

 ^ may be healed over, otherwife they will rot. When 



the cupnngs are planted, the pots fliould be plunged 

 ' into a hot-bed of tanners bark, and now and then 



gently refreflied with water : the beft time for plant- 

 ^ jng thefe cuttings is in June or July, that they may 



The Characters are, 

 // is male and female in different plants. The male flow*' 

 ers have a large fpreading empalement, compofed of five 

 oval concave leaves -, they have five heart-fhaped petals^ 

 'which arejhorter than the empalement, and fpread open. 

 They have five exterior neSlariums^ which arefituated in 

 a circle at the bottom of the petals \ and five interior y 

 which are fituated within the other, hiiving fmall apices 



■ with a mellous liquor, and five ftamina fituated in the 

 middle of the ftyle, which fpread horizontally, terminated 

 ly roundifh fummits : thefe have no germen, but a long 

 truncated ftyle in the*7niddle of the ftamina. The female 

 flowers have permanent empalements, and petals like thofe 

 of the male ; thefe have five double exterior neSfariums, 

 but no interior ; they have a roundiflo germen, fupporting 



■ three bifid refiexedftyles the length of the petals, crowned 

 by obtufeftigma: the germen afterward becomes a globular 

 capfule, with fix furrows, and three cells, each containing 

 a fingle feed. 



This genus of plants is ranged in the thirteenth fec- 

 tion of Linnseus's twenty-fecond clafs, intitled Dioe- 

 cia Gynandria. This feftion and clafs include thofe 

 plants which have the different fexes on feparate plants, 

 and the male flowers have their ftamina adhering to 



the ftyle. 



The Species are, 

 r. Clutia {Alaternoides) foliis fefllUbus lineari-lanceo- 

 latis floribus folitariis erectis. Hort. Cliff*. 500. Clu- 

 tia with linear fpear-floaped leaves fitting clofe to the 

 ftalks, and folitary eretl flowers. Alaternoides Afri- 

 cana telephii legitimi imperati foliis. Hort. Amft, 2. 



2. Clutia {Pulchella) foliis ovatis integerrimis, floribus 

 lateralibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1042. Clutia with oval en- 

 tire leaves, and flowers growing from the fides of the 

 branches. Frutex ^thiopicus, portulace folio, flore 

 ex albo virefcente. Hort. Amft. i. p. 177. 



3. Clutia {Eleutheria) foliis cordato lanceolatis. Flon 

 Zcyl. Clutia with heart fpear-floaped leaves. ^ Ricinus 

 dulcis arborefcens Americanus, populnea fronde 



argentea. Pluk. Aim. 321. 



The two firft forts are natives of Africa, from 

 whence they v/ere brought to fome curious^ gardens 

 in Holland, and have fince been communicated to 

 moft of the botanic gardens in Europe. The firft 

 fort with male flowers has been long an inhabitant of 

 fome curious gardens in England ^ the other with 



female flowers has been lately introduced. 



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