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dens foliis cordtitu tn'fidis vcl pentafdii rugosis baccis, m'gris majoribits 7'accmosis.'' 

 This seems to he an annual plant,, the leaves divided like those of the common vine, 

 nnd the stems also furnished with tendrils. The berries are as big as a middling grape. 

 It crew at Longville in Clarendon mountains, depressed and umbilicated. The seeds 

 are four and like those of the grape." 



After the article Bastard Bryony, in above page, insert, " The different species of 

 Cissus are all said to be great cleansers of foul niters, and seem to consist of penetrating 

 parts. The vivacious qualities of the Sicyoides are surprising. When they wind them- 

 selves round trees, and when the stems have been cut from the branches as high as a 

 man could reach, in order to destroy them, yet the branches thus cut oft' have protruded 

 a number of slender red tender si rings till they have reached the ground, though at 

 seven or eight feet distance, and have taken root." 



P(tge 58. After the specific character of Bumelia Montana, insert, "This is 

 called Red Bully Tree, very common in the woods of Jamaica, which grows to a very 

 iarge size and" is an excellent timber-tree. It is very branchy towards the top, 

 branches irregular. The leaves are of a shining green above and pale below, 

 scattered, irregular, sometimes opposite, sometimes alternate. The flowers arc clus- 

 tered, axillary, sometimes lateral, standing on long one-flowered footstalks, eight or ten 

 together, small, wbite, and, of an agreeable scent. The leaves are about three inches 

 long, and half as broad, elliptic, obtuse at the point, sharper towards the pedicel 

 T;hp twigs of the branches scattered, alternate. This timber makes excellent scantling 

 and boards, the latter of which, however, are apt to split in nailing, if not carefully 

 bored; it lasts well either in or out of the weather. The bark has a bitter astringent 

 taste, similar to the powder of Peruvian bark, for which it is thought a good substitute. 

 It contains a miiky substance when fresh." 



Page 6.5. After the article Bastard Ipecacuanha, insert, " The^foliowing mode of 

 preparing the juice of this plant is taken from the manuscript of mr. Anthony Robinson, 

 which, he says,mav be given with great safety as a worm medicine, tochildren, beginning 

 with a tea-spoonful : Take the leaves and bruise them in a mortar, then strain off the 

 juice, and clarify it over the fire, adding a little salt to it. In dry weather it is much 

 'stronger than in moist, and ought therefore to be given in less quantity. This medicine 

 ou'tIu however to be given with great caution, as there have been instances of its prov- 

 ing fatal. As a styptic the (lowers have been used after being preserved in rum." 



J y age~4. After the article Bastard Sensitive, add the following species, which 

 was introduced into this island, from the East-Indies by David Brown, ?]. I), ol Port- 

 Royal, a gentleman who has devoted a great deal of his leisure time to the pleasing 

 -study of botany. This plant has been pretty generally cultivated, and has thriven well 

 in lowland situations, but does not succeed well in the mountains : 



COCCINEA. SCARLET. 



Stem arborescent, leaves pinnate; leaflets numerous, linear, obtuse, dusty ; le- 

 gumes compressed, equal. 

 This is a very beautiful tree, either with or" without flowers, and of quick growth, 

 rising from theseeds twenty feet high with a stem three inches and a halt in diamcte . . 

 in twelve months. The leaves are frequently more than a foot long, when they have 

 from twenty-two to twentj -lour pairs of beautiful long-oval leaflets, without an odd 

 one, the longest about two inches long and. nearly three-quarters of an isch broad, 



dark 



