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five or fix feet. The leaves are long and narrow, and difpofed pretty thick about the 

 extremities of the branches : the flowers are red, and rife on long branched foot-flalks 

 from the upper divifions, or extremities of the branches. It grows very near the 

 Waterfall in Mammee-river. 





EUPHORBIA 8. Minima fup 



ifefcens, foliolis fubrotundis nitidis opp 



fit 



ramulis floriferis foliolatis ad alas alternas 



The fmall creeping Spurg 



This little plant is very like the fecOnd fp 



ed flreets and gardens about Kingjl\ 



has 



and common in all the unfreq 

 weakly flender fialk like the c 



ther 



and feldom moots above th 



or four inches from the 



but the 



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whole, and the flowers feem differently difpofed 



EUPHORBIA 9. Humilior ereSia -> ramulis rarioribus, verticilliter ternatis ; 



foliis inferioribus orbiculaiis, fuperioribus obovatis. 



The fmaller erect Spurge, with verticillated branches. 



This is a native of the cooler mountains, and feldom rifes above twelve or 



four- 



ches in heig 



T. 



in. 



Of Plants that have twelve Filaments and many Styles in every Flower. 





LUSIA 1. Arbor ea, foliis crajjis nitidis , obovato fubrotundis -, floribus folitariis, 



Clufia foliis aveniis. L. Sp. PI. m 



Terebinthus folio fngulari non alato, &c. Slo. Cat. 167. & H. t. 200. 

 Cencramidea Catejb. vol. ii. t. 99. & Pk. Phy. t. 157. 



The Balfam Tree. 



Periantium Polyphyllum imbricatum y ex fquamis fex vel ocfo fubrotundis y 



quatuor feriebus difpojitis, confata 5 fuperioribus fenfim ma- 

 joribus. 

 Corolla Tetrapetala, petalis crajjis oblongo-ovatis chochleatis. 

 Stamina Filamenta duo, quandoque tria ad Jingula petalorum interjli- 



tia, brevia y ereBo-patentia & ex areolis diftinStis orta ; a n- 

 thera fubrotundce. 

 Piftillum, Germen crajfum fubrotundum, obtufe quadrigonum, truncatum^ 



flylus nullus\ ftigmata duodecim di/lincJa, in orbem circa 

 verticem germinis deprejfum pofita. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula crajfa fubrotunda plurivalvis t in duodecim loculamen- 



ta y a vert ice ad bafim dehifcentia, divifa } Je mini bus plu- 

 rimis fubrotundis, pulpa crocea obvolutis, referta. 



This fhrubby tree is frequent enough in Jamaica, and rifes generally to the height 

 of fourteen or fifteen feet: it grows moftly in the lower hills, and delights in a 

 dry ground; but thrives in moft light foils alfo. Wherever the trunk or larger 

 branches of this tree are wounded, they throw out a thick refinous gum, which is 

 fometimes ufed as a vulnerary among the inhabitants of Jamaica ; but it has no ex- 

 traordinary fmell, or pungent tafte. 





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