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ones pale, in llie middle deeper, in the lower darker green, wilh Iwo 

 purple luberclcs or glands towards the base, where lliey are con- 

 nected with the petiole; which is set half an inch fron\ the base of 

 the leaf, three nerves springing from it, two extending each way to 

 the narrow points of the leaf, the other rising upright to the top, 

 where is the greatest length of the leaf: the flowers are on short 

 round peduncles from the axils of the middle and upper leaves, white 

 and of a middle size, about three inches in diameter when expanded: 

 they are without scent, open in the evening or during the nighi, in 

 the month of July, :ind finally close about eight or nine o'clock in 

 the morning. It is a native of the West Indies. 



The thirteenth species has the stem sutiVuteseent at bottom, sub- 

 divided, angular, grooved: the leaves semiovale, three-nerved, veined, 

 smooth on both sides, marked behind longitudinally with pellucid 

 dots: lobes terminated by very small bristles; the middle one a little 

 larger than the others: the petioles short, without glands: the ten- 

 drils filiform, very long: the stipules two, opposite, awl-shaped: the 

 peduncles axillary, filiform, an inch long: the flowers nodding, [)ale 

 green, rather large: the berry egg-shaped. It is distinguished from 

 the other sorts by its rounded leaves slightly ihree-lobed at lop only. 

 It is a native of Jamaica. 



The fourteenth runs to a great height, and lias dark-green glossy 

 leaves: the involucrum is composed of three leaves divided into ca- 

 pillary segments, each terminating in a viscid globule: the pillar 

 supporting the germen is bright purple with darker spots: the petals 

 are greenish on the outside, and red within: the crown consists of 

 four rows of radii, which are varied with white and purple. It is a 

 native of Jamaica. 



The fifteenth species rises with a weak stalk to the heighl of 

 twenty feel: as the stalks grow old, they have a thick fungous bark 

 like that of the Cork-tree, which cracks and splits: the smalh r 

 branches are covered with a smooth baik: the leaves are smooth, 

 on very short petioles: the middle lobe is much longer than the la- 

 teral ones, so that the whole leaf is halberl-shaped: llie flowers are 



