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Bacca globofa quadri Jocular is calici impofta. 



Semina. Quatuor oblongo-ovata. 







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R A N D I A I . Foliis fubrotundis confertis, fummis ramulis bifpiniferis, fo- 



rtius folk ar its. Tab. 8. f. i. 







An, Cacao Affinis f rut ex fpi?iofus,&c. Slo. Cat. 35. &H. t. 16 i k 

 Randia L/». G#z. © Lycium, &c. Pk. t. 97* 





The Indigo-berry. 



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This {mail fhrub rifes by a branched {talk, and {hoots commonly to the height of 

 feven or eight feet ; the main ftem is tough and hard j the branches fomewhat 

 prickly at the ends, and the leaves of an oval form and growing in tufts ; it is frequent 

 in the low lands, and grows chiefly in the moil barren clayey foils. 



It's general characters are as follow : 



Periantium. Minimum monoptyllum fubrotundum truncal urn % 

 Corolla. Monopetala tubulata ; tubus cfindraceus -, limbus patens in quatuor 



lacinias obtufas equates divifus (a) . 



Stamina. Ft lament a quatuor tubo corolla adnata, antheris oblongis in fauce locatis. 

 Piflillum. Germen fubrotundum intra calicem Jit urn, Jlylus Ion git u dims tubi 



corolla, Jligmata bina comprejja oblonga. 



Pericarpium. Bacca globofa, cor t ice feci or i teBa, & pulp a c a? rule a repleta. 

 Semina. Sex vel plura orbiculata comprefja pulpd obvoluta. 







The pulp of thefe berries, which generally grow very numerous on the fmaller branches 

 of the plant, is very thick, and {tains paper or linen of a fine fixt blue colour. I have 

 tried it on many occafions, and have always obferved it to ftand tho' waflied with 

 either foap or acids j but it does not communicate fo fine a colour with heat. It 

 would prove an excellent fixt blue in all manner of paints and prints if it could be 

 obtained in any quantity : but the berry is not very fucculent, and the people as yet 

 not over induftrious in thofe parts. 



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PETESIA 1. Fruticofa, foliis ovatis verticillatim-terndtis, flipulis rigidis 



int erpofit i s , fujlentaculis forum longis ramofs alaribus* 

 Tab. 2. fig. 3. 



The oval leaf 'd Petefia with long branched flower-ftalks* 



Periantium. Monophyllum fubcampanulatum quadridentatum parvum germine 



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pragnans. 

 Tubulata, tubus oblongus equdlis ; limbus ampliatus quadrip 



Stamina. Filament a quatuor brevia ab inf ma tubi parte 



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fauce corollte ft 



anthera oblong 



Germen fubrotundum parvum, fyhis /implex eretlus, figma 



Pericarpium . Bacca bilocularis globofa cor Gnat a binis nuclei s unilocularibus referta. 



I found this fhrub near the Waterfall in Mammee River ; it grew on the fide 

 of the clift, and was not above five feet in height. 



PETESIA 2. Fruticofa foliis ovatis oppoftis,fipulis rigidis interpof 



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(a) This plant flowered in the garden of Oxford fome years ago, and was then examined and deline- 

 ated by Mr. Ebnt, who obferved fix filaments in every flower, and had always found the margin cut 

 into fix pointed fegments, in which irate it is reprefented here, my own fpecimen, having loft all its 

 biofloms; but I have alio added a fmgle leaf of the ftovc-fpecimen to (hew the proportion between that 

 and thofe that grow naturally in Jamaica, in which I have conftantly obferved the number of filaments and 

 divifions of the flower to be very regular, and feldom or never more than four; this difference may be 

 probably owing to the richnefs of the bed, and forcing heat of the ftove la which the former grew. 



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