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turvcd gilhcus ttiky ti'hofe Mm is ait into five unequal 

 fe<^ments^ rchicb are reflexed \ this katb nn emfalement^ 

 'u;hich is pert ^ cf one leaf^ cut into tzvo obtufe Jegrnents^ 

 ivhich are concave. It hath four ftamina^ two of Kvbick 

 are of the length of the fetal; the other are porter^ ter- 

 minated by troinftamnits 'which are prcjlrate. It hath an 

 ccalger men fitting on a foot-fldk^fupporting a long fender 

 fiyky crowned by a rotindipJUg^na. The germen afterward 

 becomes an oval cr bottle-f japed fruity with a hardpelU 

 incloftng many flat hear t-fhaped feeds. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond fection 

 of Linn^us's fourteenth clafs, intitled Didynamia 



The flower having two long and two 

 and the feeds beino; included in a 



Angiofpermia. 

 Ihort ftamina, 

 capfule. 



The Species are, 

 I. Crescentia {Cujete) foliis lanceolatis, utnnque at- 

 tenuatis. Hort. Cliff. 327. Crefcentia with fpear-f japed 

 lea^-esy narrowed at both ends, Cujete foliis oblongis 

 angviftis magno fruftu ovato. Plum. Nov. Gen. 23. 

 Calahap-tree with oblong narrow leaves^ and a large oval 

 fruit. 



ing-cups, fomc of which are tipped with filvcr, anj 

 to the necks they fallen handles, and ibmc of the 

 long fmall fruit are formed into the Ihape of fpoons 

 or ladles, and arc ufed as fuch -, the round ones are 

 cut through the middle, and arc ufed as cups for 

 Chocolate. The Indians put a number of fmall Hones 

 into thefe fliells, when cleared of the pulp, to make 

 a fort of rattle: in fhort, they convert thefe iliells 

 into many forts of furniture, which is the principal 

 vife made of the fruit ; for the pulp is feldom eaten, 

 except by the cattle in the time of great droughts. 

 The leaves and branches of this tree are alfo eaten by 

 the cattle in times of fcarcity. The wood of this tree 

 is hard and fmooth, fo is frequently ufed for making 

 faddles, (tools, and other furniture. 

 The fecond fort feldom rifes more than fifteen or 

 twenty feet high •, this hath an upright trunk, covered 

 with a white fmooth bark, fending out many lateral 

 branches at the top, garniflied with leaves three inches 

 in length, and one and a quarter broad j thefe arc 

 ranged alternately on the branches^ fitting upon fliort 

 foot-ftalks ; they are of a deeper green than thofe of 



2. Crescentia {Latifolia) foliis oblongo-ovatis, frudlu the firft fort, and their edges are entire. The flow- 



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rotundo, cortice fragili. Crefcentia with oblong oval 

 leavesy and round fruit with a tender pelL Cujete la- 

 tifolia, fru£lu putamine fragili. Plum. Nov. Gen. 

 23. Broad-leaved CalabaJJj-tree whofe fruit hatb a tender 

 fhelL . ■ ' 



There are fome varieties of thefe trees, which only 

 . differ in the fize and Ihape of their fruit •, but thofe 

 are variations which arile from feeds of the fame tree, 

 fo are not to be enumerated as diftin£t fpecies ; but 

 the two here mentioned are undoubtedly different 

 fpecies, for I have frequently raifed them from feeds^ 

 and have never found cither of them vary. . ... "- ' ] 

 The firft fort grows naturally in Jamaica, and in all 

 the Leeward Iflands. This hath a thick trunk, 

 covered with a whitifh bark, which rifes from twenty 

 to thiry feet high, having fever al knots all the length, 

 and at the top divides into many branches, which 

 fpread every way, and form a large regular head, 

 arnilhed with leaves which come out irregularly ; 

 onietimes fingle, at others many arife from the fame 

 knot ; they are near fix inches long, and one and a 

 -half broad in the middle, diminifning gradually to 

 both ends ; they are of a lucid green, and have veiy 

 fhort foot-ftalks, with one midrib, and feveral tranf- 

 verfe veins running from that to the fides. The 

 flov/ers are produced from the fide of the large 

 branches, and fometimes from the trunk, ftanding 

 upon long foot-ftalks •, their empalement. is deeply 

 divided into two obtufe fegmcnts. The flower hath 

 but one petal, which is irregular, having an incurved 

 tube, which is divided at the brim into two irregular 

 fegments, which turn backward ^ thefe are of a 

 greenifli yellow colour, ftriped and Tpotted with 

 brown -, the flowers are an inch and a half long, from 

 the bottom of the tube to the extent of the upper 

 fegment. They have four flender ftamina, of the 

 fame colour with the petal, which are of unequal 

 lengths, two being full as long as the petal, and the 

 other are much ftiorter, terminated by oblong fum- 

 mits, divided in the middle, which lie proftrate on 

 the ftamina. From the lower part of the tube arifes 

 a long flender foot-ftalk, fupporting the oval germen, 

 which hath a headed ftigma fitting clofe on the top ; 

 the germen afterward turns to a large fruit, of dif- 

 ferent forms and fize -, they are often fpherical, fome- 

 times they are oval, and at other times they have a 

 contradled neck like a bottle -, and are fo large, as 

 v/hen the pulp and feeds are cleaned out, the fliells 

 will contain three pints or two quarts of liquid. Thefe 

 fruit or fhells, are covered with a thin flcin of a 

 greenifli yellow when ripe, which is peeled off; and 

 under this is a hard ligneous fhell, inclofing a pale, 

 yellowith, foft pulp, or a tart unfavory flavour, fur- 

 rounding a great number of flat f)eart-maped feeds. 

 The fliells of this fruit are cleaned of their pulp, and 

 the outer fkin taken off, by the inhabitants of the 

 iflands, and dried 3 then they ufe them for drink- 





ers come out from the fide of the large branches and 

 the trunk ; thefe are fmaller, and of a deeper yellow 



• colour than thofe of the firft-, the fruit of this is 

 fometimes round, at others oval, fome being much 

 larger than the other ; the fliells of this fruit are thin 

 and very brittle, fo are unfit for any purpofes to 

 which thofe of the former are employed; the feeds 

 are alfo much thinner, and the pulp is of a deeper 

 yellow. The wood of this tree is hard, and very 

 white, fo might be ufeful, were it not for the plenty 



'" of other forts,' which abound in many of the iflands. 



-.This was found growing naturally in plenty at Cam- 



*' peachy by the late Dr. Houftouii, 'who fent the fruit 



^ to England. 



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^ Thefe trees are too tender to liye abroad in England, 

 fo require a warm ftove to be preferved here. They 

 are eafily propagated by feeds, which muft be pro- 

 cured from the countries where they grow naturally; 

 the way is to have the entire fruit fent over when ' 

 fully ripe ; for when the feeds are taken out of the 

 pulp abroad, and fent over hither, if they are long in 

 their paffage they will lofe their growing quality 

 before they arrive, as I have often experienced. Thefe 

 muft be fown on a good hot-bed in the fpring, and 

 when the plants are fit to remove, they fhould be 

 each planted into a fmall halfpenny pot filled with 

 light fandy earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of 

 tanners bark, obferving to fliade them from the fun 

 till they have taken frefli root ; when they muft be, 

 treated in the fame manner as other tender plants, 

 which are natives of the fame countries. In winter 

 they muft be placed in the tan-bed of the bark-ftove, 

 and during that feafon fliould have but little water; 

 in fummer they will require to be gently watered two 

 or three times a week, according to the warmth of 

 the feafon; and in hot weather they Ihould have a 

 large 'fliare of air admitted to them. With this ma- 

 nagement the plants will make great progrefs, and 

 their leaves being of a fine green, they make a 

 pretty variety in the ftoye, but have not as yet 

 flowered in England. . • 



CRESS the Garden. See Lepidium. 



CRESS the Indian. See Trop^olum. 



CRESS the Water. 

 C R E S S the Winter. 



See SisYMBRiu 



CRIN UM. Lin. Gen. Plant. 366. Lilio-AfphodeKis. 

 Com. Rar. 14. Dillen. Hort. Ekh. 194. Afphodcl 

 Lily. - 



The Characters are, 



The involucrum is compofed of two oblong leaves^ inform 



of a fheath or cover ^ which dries and is reflexed. fbe 



flower hath one petal., which is funnel-fhaped, having ^ ^ 



long tube., deeply cut at the top into fix fegments which 



. are reflexed. It hath fix long ftamina., which are i'4^rtcd 



in the tube of the petal, and are ft retched cut beyond th 



flower., fpreading open •, thefe are terminated by oblong 



proflrale funmits^ riflng at one end\ tic gcrmcri is f^ti'Md 



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