ULINJA. Rbeede Malad. 8. -p. 53: t. 28. 
CORINDUM ampliore folio, fruétu maximo. Tourn. Inft. 431. 
WILD PARSLEY. Hughes Barbad. 212. 
Confidering that this plant is a native of tropical countries 
only, it is rather remarkable that it fhould have fallen fo early 
under the notice of European Botanifts. But being very un-— 
common both in the Eaft and Weft-Indies, the fingularity of 
the feeds, which are perfe@lly-round, of a deep black colour, 
with a large heart-fhaped white fpot, muft have occafioned 
their being brought over, as curiofities, and their vegetating 
_power being more lafting than in many, the propagation of 
*thefe plants was the more eafy, efpecially in the fouthern 
“parts of Europe, where ripe fruit would be readily pro- 
duced. Our Parkinson, who received the feeds ‘from 
Italy, but fufpe&ted’they were not originally of European 
growth, fays, “ I did never fee it beare ripe fruite with us, 
“no not: tn the hotteft' yeare that I have fowne it.” ats 
This plant has been feveral times figured by the older 
Botanifts. The original figures are thofe of Tracus, Fucu-_ 
sius, Matruiotus, and Gesner in Camerarnius; of thele 
‘the wooden cut in the folio edition of Fucusius is the beft 
-reprefentation of the habit of the plant, that we have feen, and 
far more correét than the engravings on copper in Morison, 
*Rivertrus, and Rumenius. When the do€trine of figns was 
“in vogue, ‘the heart, fo beautifully depiéted on this feed, could 
not fail to ftamp it with the credit of curing all affe€tions of this 
“organ ; but unfortunately experience very rarely verifies fuch 
_ foolifh conceits. 
~ “Though an annual-of very flender growth, we are told- by 
Dr. Parricx Browne, ‘that it climbs to the tops of the talleft 
‘trees in the forefts of Jamaica. Communicated to us by our 
friend, Mr. Samurr Curtis, of Walworth, who raifed it 
from feeds, fuppofed to have been received from New South- 
Wales. This circumftance, though probably a miftake, occa- _ 
rfioned a treatment ‘different from what is ufual; the pot © 
oung plants was kept in the‘moft airy part of the greenhoufe; 
by which means they were far more vigorous and healthy than 
“ufual, and:ripened their feeds freely. | : 
“Itis not only found in‘the Eaft and Weft-Indies, but alfo 
near the mouth of the Rio de Janeiro in South-America, 17 
the northern parts of New-Holland, in Otaheite, and fome 
‘other iffands in'‘the South-Sea. Flowers in July and Augutt. 
