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length of llic calyx, narrower, acuminate, wilh blood-red dots scat- 

 tered over them: the flowers are very handsome and odoriferous, but 

 the fruit ovate and watery. It flowers in June and July, and is a 

 native of Jamaica. 



The ninth species has slender stalks, sending out many small 

 l)ranchcs, and climbing to the height of twenty-five or thirty-feet • 

 by aoe they become woody towards the bottom, and their joints are 

 not far asunder: the leaves are on short slender petioles, three inches 

 and a half long, and two broad in the middle, rounded at the base, but 

 terminating in a point at lop, smooth, entire, and of a lively green 

 colour: tiic flovrers are axillary, on long peduncles, having an agree- 

 able odour, but seldom continuing twenty hours open. There is a 

 succession of them from June to September, and the fruit will some- 

 limes ri])en in this climate. It grows naturally at La Vera Cruz. 



The tenth has an herbaceous stem, twining round, grooved, hir- 

 sute, red: the lobes of the leaves entire, nerved, somewhat hispid, 

 soil: the j)ctioles round, red, villose, without glands: the tendrils 

 subaxillary: the flowers alternate, nodding, on solitary one-flowered 

 peduncles: llie fruit spherical, marked with six lines, scarlet when 

 ripe, hirsute. It is a native of the West Indies, flowering in April 

 and May. 



The eleventh species has an herbaceous, grooved, smooth stem: 

 the leaves ovale or oblong, two-horned, with an intermediate bristle, 

 ihree-nerved, veined, smooth, entire: dots on the back hollowed, pel- 

 lucid: the petioles grooved, smooth, destitute of glands: the tendrils 

 subaxillary, fdiform, long: the flowers in pairs, axillary, scarlet, large: 

 the berry ovate, the size of a pigeon's egg, and pedicelled. It is a 

 native of the West Indies. 



The twelfth has slender, striated, roundish stalks, less than a straw, 

 of the same thickness from top to bottom, and of a brownish red 

 colour, dividing into many slender branches: the leaves shaped like 

 the wino^s of a bat when extended, about seven inches in lenoth, or 

 rather breadth, from the base to the top not more than two inches 

 and a half, the upper ones smaller, the middle wider, and the lower 

 narrower, smooth and somewhat shining; the colour in the upper 



