SNmN IIORTaS JAMAICENSIS, 4lJ 



~v. 2, p. 93. >> Parasiticus, inermis, aphylhis, ramosus, propendens j 

 raimdis gr<tcilibns, tcretibus, striatis. Browne, p. 238. 

 Pendulous, branches in whorls, round, smooth, without prickles. 



This is Ciiiled by Browne the slender parasitical currant cactus, or Indian fig, which 

 grows pretcv ivcquent.in St. Mary's, chiefly on the largest trees in the wood, hanging 

 commoniy three or four feet from its fastening or root. The stem is roundish, green, 

 wood ,- striated, as big as a goose-quill, having a large pith, divided into several slen4 

 dcr, round, striated, branches, and they into twigs, at distances of one, two, and three' 

 Uiches ; at which divisions are set little twiga, an inch and a half long, in whorls, ap 

 peanng bushy. Sloane. 



6. TRIANGULARfS. THREE- ANLED. ' 



Ficus Indica folio trianguluri ensifonni (profunde canaliculato) stcl- 

 latiin iiculeato. Sloane, v. 2, p. 155. Dehiiis brachiatus, requalis, 

 triquctious, scandens vel repens ; spinis brevissiniis corifertis. - 

 Browile, p. 238, 

 Creeping, triangidai. 

 Browne calls this the strawberry pear, an^ Sloane, who describes it as follows, the 

 priclxly-"'ii'itfu: : *' It hath several small roots, white, tapering, and very strong, stick- 

 ing to the barks of the trees it grows on ; from them comes several very green leaves, 

 protruiiing one another, triangular, furrowed between the angles verj' deep, the cavity 

 being round, very snKXjtli, and of a fresh greea colour, looking just like tiie shape cf 

 a three-cornered sword blade ; on the three angles stand tufts of small, short, white 

 prickles, in rows, very thick,, star-fashion. Every leaf is a foot and a half long ; they 

 creep up trees and stick close to them, rising. forty or fifty feet high. When the 

 prickle.s and succulent.part of the leaves full off, there remains the lomg, round, and 

 stroui;, inward parr, vvhieh is made use of for witbes. The flowers come out on the 

 leaves, as on others of this kind, at first appears a woolly nraiid knob, which afterwards 

 augments, and shews. on jts outside a great many long, scaly, red lish-grev-u, leaves. 

 one longer than another, enclosing, several very long white petala, in tiie middle of 

 which stand inai>y long stamina ; the whole looking like the flower of the white lily.- 

 The under part of this'flower beginning to swell the pf;tala drop olT, and it grnws to 

 the bigness of an apple, with several protuberances on its siiri\ico, of a redJish-yeilow 

 colour when ripe, and contains, within a thin skin, a white, pleasantly sweet j)u!p, 

 inclosing a great many small black seeds..- Sometim-es it creeps on tiie ground, aiid 

 then it is much larger and fairer. . The fruit is ripe in Decemher and .lanuary, and, 

 when eaten, makes the urine red, as do prickly pears. It is much Uicd lor withes, 

 Tiie-iVuit is the pleasantest of any of this kind." Sloane. 



' T.FI.AGELLIFOnMIS. WHIP-FORM. 



Ccvcus minima serpens Americana. Sloane, v. 2, p. 15? CijUn- 

 (Iracens, sulcaius, pusillus, rcpeiis i aculcis setaeeis confcriis. 

 Browne, p. 238. 



Creeping, .ten-angled. 

 This is called the pink-floivcred creeping cereus, and has furrows, ribs, and prickles, 

 like the other species, but is not above half an inch in diatuater. It chin'>s tra s, and 

 iticks closely to their bark, witli broad soft clavicles, mounting forty or tifty feet,, aivd- 



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