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In tlie sixth the stem is ahiiost simple, thick, membranaceous al 

 the four corners, somewhat hispid: the leaves are peliokxl, five or 

 six inches long, entire, somewhat iiigged, but without any pubes- 

 cence: the tendrils very long, axillary': stipules in pairs, ovate at 

 the base of" the petioles, on which arc six glands: the peduncles op- 

 posite to the petioles, thicker: the flowers very large, encompassed 

 by a three-leaved involucre, the leaves of which are roundi'^li, con- 

 cave, entire, smooth, pale: llie fruit is very large, oblong, and fleshy: 

 the flower is much larger, though very like the above sor!, in colour. 

 It is a native of Jamaica. 



The seventh species is very like the preceding at first sight: the 

 open flower has also a general resemblance; but the |)cduncle is 

 cylindrical; the three divisions of the involucre sn)all, lanceolate, 

 with glandular serratures; the pedicel thickest at the insertion into 

 the convex base of the flower: the five or six outer petals are oblong 

 with an awn, the inner longer; the outer principal rays thinnest and 

 shortest; imperfect rays in a double row, below and distinct from 

 them a single row: no imperfect operculum; operculum j^artly hori- 

 zontal and partly turning up to the column, then folding back down 

 again and embracing the column, with which it is so connected that 

 it appears inseparable, but is not joined to the colunm : nectary 

 round the column, confined by the base : the column comes to the 

 bottom of it- It is a native of the West Indies. 



If this does not equal (he first sort inelegance, it exceeds it in 

 magnificence, in brilliancy of colour, and in fragrance, the flowers 

 being highly odoriferous. 



The eighth has a suffrutcscent stem, with very divaricating, fili- 

 form branches: the leaves a little emarginate at the base, nerved, 

 and very smooth, on short petioles compressed a little, having two 

 glands under the base of the leaf: the tendrils are very long : the 

 peduncles the length of the petioles : the three leaflets of the involu- 

 cre are roundish, concave, with blunt glandular toolhlels about the 

 edge, and pale: the five leaflets of the calyx are broad-lanceolate, 

 slightly membranaceous at the cdi]:c, horned with a {loint or awn, 

 smooth, variegated on the inside with blood-red dots: petals five, the 



