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This plant grows very common in all the ftagnating waters about the Fern, and 

 fes generally to the height of two or three feet above the 



the flowers 



hermaphrodite, and furniflied each with twelve filaments, and a numerous family of 

 gems, or germens. The whole plant has fo much thr 9 nn M r 9 nr P nf »n ..JL 



The whol 



fo much 



appearance oi 



head, that it feems to have exchanged flowers with the plant we defer ibe und 



that den 



which has all the 



ppea 



of 



nfwers the characters of the other very perfectly 



Water -Plantain, though 



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VII 



Of the Heptandria, or Vegetables that have feve 



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Filaments in every Flower 



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T. 





Of fuch as have /even Filaments and one Style in every Flower, 



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O MINI A 1. Arbor ea foliis undulatis pinnato-ternatis, floribus minimis, 



mi n a lib 



Baccifera Indica trifolia, frutlu rotundo monop) 



&c. Raii. & Slo. Cat 



70. '& H. t. 208 



Arbor Jamaicenlis denfiori tilice foli 



See 



Pk. t. 147. f. 5 



The trifoliated Cc 



Periantium Minimum coloratum, quafi triphyllum. 



Corolla Irregularis , monopetala videtur quadri- vel quinquccrenata. 



Stamina. 



Filament a feptem brevia ; anthers oblongo-ovata. 



Piftillum. Germen parvum fubrot undum , ftylus ereflus fimplex, JJore Ion- 



gior , ftigma bipartitum I acini is revolutis. 

 Pericarpium. Bacca parva fubrotunda unilocularis, rubra. 

 Semen Solitarium fubcompreffum, orbiculatum, nauco fragili tectum. 



This little tree is frequent about the Angels, and in the upper parts of Liguanea; 



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It 



g 



in the hedg 



d leld 



a 



abo\ 



? e 



ght 



or ten 



feet in height : 



the leaves are roundifh, and the berries very thick and (mall. The whole plant feems 



to have fomething of the appearance of a Rhus. 



■ I have described the characters exactly as I have obferved them in the frefh fp 



m 



but they are very fm 



d not eafily obferved 



by the help of glafK 



HALESIA I. Arbor eje ens, foliis fubrotundis fubtus argenteis ; fpicis forum bi- 



geminis, fuftentaculis longis alaribus injidtntibus, 1 b. 20, f. 1. 



Periant 

 Corolla 



The round-leafed Halefii 



Monophyllum breve, tubulatum, ft 



P 



Monopetala 



bulata , tubus angujlus aqualis cyhndraceiis, calice 



quadruplo long 



b 



P 



in 



9 



fix lacinias oblongas obtufas aquales ad bafim J clus 



quinq 



vel 



Stamina. 



Fila m 



bo 



plurimum feptem (quamioque pandora) brevia £f 



thera? cblongce fagittctce, in fauce floris fit a. 



Piftill 



Germen fubrotimdum deprej/um in fundo calicis fitutn & ad) 



turn; ft y J u s fmpkx af 



ftigma oblongum, obtufiufc 



anther as heat u 



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Pericarpium 



B 



detur quadri- vel plurilocularis feminibus foh 



calice tefla & coronata. 



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