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company's account, and ten Chine fe boys who 

 were to fplice cables. 



The 2 2d of September. 



After I had preached and adminiftered the 

 facrament, I was tempted by the fine weather 

 to make a little excurfion on the French I/Iand, 

 where I found the following plants in flower : 



Barleria crijlata, £Tab. viii.] by the Chi- 

 nefe called Ablieyfa, is a fhrub which exceeds 

 three yards in height. The item is fo weak, 

 that it cannot Hand upright without a fupport. 

 Its flowers are blue, and fall off eaflly : the 

 tube of the corolla is bent : the filaments are 

 fattened to its lower part ; two of them are 

 very fhort, and two almoft as long as the pi- 

 fiilla, bendes a barren one : the upper lip of 

 the corolla is broad and oval, the lower is quad- 

 rifid, with long fliarp points. 



Chinefe Gourds {Cucurbit a Chinenfis) grew 

 here and there fpontaneouily ; and in other 

 places they were fupported near the houfes by 

 little (licks, or ftxrubs. 



Convot- 



