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Planta fruticofa fcandens, Sec. Slo. Cat. 214. & H. t. 231. 

 Cordis Indi folio & facie frutefcens, &c. Pk. t, 168. f. 6. 

 Cururu-ape. Pif. 250. 



Souple Jack. 



This plant is very common in the woods of J 



has a flen 



flexile ftalk 

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gnoir 



fes itfelf frequently to a very confiderable height among the 



The ftem of this plant is fo tough and yielding, that 



moniy 



parts 



junks, barked, and ufed for riding-fwitches, or carried in the hand, in thofe 



we do fmall ratans in Earop 





CARDIOSPERMUM 1. 



Scand 



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fin 



ternato- tern a tis t acum inatis, 



Cardiofpermum. L. H. C. & Sp. PL 



Cor Indum ampliori folio frucJu majori. The. Zey. 



The larger Cardiofpermum. 



CARDIOSPERMUM 2. Villofum, Jlylo bifido, flaminibus fubcoalitis oppofito. 

 Cor Indum Jive Halicacabum peregrinum minus, &c. The. Zey. 



The fmaller hairy Cardiofpermum* 



Both thefe plants are natives of Jamaica,. and frequently found climbing in the 

 lower woods. The nrft fort is very common ; it has but a (lender /rem, and climbs 

 to ,the top of the tallefr trees in the forefts. I have feen only one or two plants of 

 the other fort ; they grow in the low lands towards the foot of the Long-mountain 

 in the upper part of Liguanea: the leaves are minutely divided, and havefomething 

 of the appearance of Par/ly. All the filaments of the flower are connected at the 

 bafe in this laflfpeciesj and difpofed, as it were, in a tuft on one fide, and oppofite 



to the Jly I e. 



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Of the Enneandria, or Plants that have nine Filaments 



in every Flower. 



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Filaments and one Style in every Flow 



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AURUS 1. Foliis oblongo-ovatis, alternis> venofi 



bus fimplicibus. 

 Laurus foliis lanceolatis perennantibus venofs plants, fori bus racemo/is. L. Sp 



terminalibus s calici 



PL & H. C 



&c. 



Slo. Cat. & H 



Laurus folio longiore, 



Laurus Catefb. t. 63. & Pk. t. 176. f. 2. 



Sweet wood. 



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This tree grows to a confiderable fize in Jamaica y and is looked upon as one of 

 the beft timber-trees in the ifland : it grows in great abundance in the lower hills ; 



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