142 = The Natural Eiftory of Jamaica. 
XXX. Amarantus fruticofus eredtus, {pica viridi, laxa & ftrigofa. . Cat. p. a8. 
Tab. 9x. Fig. 1. . ee 
This Shrub has’ greenifh, woody, and {mall Stalks, it rifes to about two 
Foot and a half high. The Leaves are many, fmooth, of a dark green 
- colour, plac’d along the Branches without order, having half an Inch long 
Foot-Stalks. They are an Inch long, andthree quarters broad, a little from - 
the round Bafe where broadeft, and whence they decreafe by degrees to 
the point. The Flowers fland in Spikes at the tops of the Branches, 
about three Inches long, are not open, but made up of five Leaves, of a 
yellowifh green colour, in the middle of which is a large blackifh Stylus, 
which comes in fome time to be a Seed-Veiflel or Husk, containing feveral 
Seeds, each of which is fcarce difcernible to the Eye, fhining, and of a 
brown colour, roundifh, and hollow on one fide like a Difh if viewed by 
the Microfcope. awe =e 
+ Ie grows by the Banks of Rio Cobre, near the Town. 
XXXI. Amarantus Siculus {picatus radice perenni Boccone. Raii hiff. p. 203. 
Plukenet. Tab: 260. Fitz. -€atopi4ag. ~*~ : : 
This Plant rifesthree or four Foot high,’ by a {quare, jointed, brownifh green 
Stalk,having Branches fet oppofite to one another, ex alis foliorum, at 
about two’ Inches diftance. ‘The Leaves‘ftand on one third part of an Inch 
long Feot-Stalks, ‘the greater ones beirig three Inches and an half long, and 
two: broad iti the middle; where-broadeft, with‘one middle Rib, being 
score e = ~ dit, woolly, {mooth, and pointed.’ The Flowers ftand 
in Spikes on‘the’B: cS éhids, ‘fix or feven Inches lon 3, being placed on 
every fide ofthe Stalk; a peiie at firft nothing but {hort teddifh Hairs - 
or Filaments, after which follow rough, ‘prickly, green, reflected Cxpfila’s 
or Cones, each of which is divided into five points, containing in it one 
fmall oblong Seéd, ‘reddifh; like’ Wheat, only fimaller: - ) = 
It grows in Ditches, and feveral places about the Town of St. Fage de la 
Vega, and inthe Ifland Madera. 
XXXII. Amarantus, panicula flavicante, gracili, holofericea. Cat.p.49. Tab. gd: 
Fig. 2.’ Amirinthis nodfus pallifcentibus bliti foliis parvis, Americanus multi- 
plici; {peciofa, [pica, laxa few panicula para candicante Plukenet. Almag. p. 26. 
Phit 1%. Tab, 2612 Figer. al eC OO08. ott 22399 Jae : 
“This had weak, cornered; yellowith green, hollow, fmooth Stalks, needing 
the fupport, though ene d, its‘neighbouting Plants, rifing to a- 
bout three Foothigh, beings big a Goofe Quill; ‘and having-few joints, 
and'therear Leaves, {tanding“eppo € to’ one another,” on half an Inch long’ 
FoorStalks, ‘they’ are ‘about°an InclY and ‘an half long,’ and about half as 
broad ‘near the\round Bafe;" where. broadeft, and from whence they end ina 
point, being ‘fthooth, and°of ‘a yellowith green colour.’ ‘“The°tops of the 
Stalks, as weil as‘Branches,gtowing’ ex°al#s fol. are branched Panicles, or 
branched Spikes of Flowers of a pale. yellow colour, fhining like Silk, ‘as 
fome of this Kind; ‘only they*are much -{maller than any I know, otherwife 
like them in every thing elfe. vised 
‘It grew in the'Hedges of Lime-Trees, among the Sugar Plantations in Gya- 
navoa; as well-asiint molt. of the Caribes, °° ic} , S21 
XXXUL Blitum album majus feandens, Cat. p. 49. Tab. 91. Fig.'2.° Ane 
maranthus Americanus, altiffimus longifolius, foicis & viridi albicantibus. Plum 
Tournef. Inft. p 235 2 
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