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THE NATUR 



HIST 



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Muntingia. Plum. t. 26. 



Muntingia. L. Sp. PI. 6? Muntingia pedunculis unifli 



The villofe Muntingia, 



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This fhrub is frequent in all the hills and lower mountains of Jamaica, and rifes 

 commonly to the height of ten or twelve feet. The branches are very irregular 

 and fpreading, the twigs flender, and the leaves hairy and narrow, ftretching much 

 further back on one fide of the foot-ftalk, than they do on the other. 





BREYNIA i. Fruticofa, foliis oblongis obtufis. Tab. 27. f. 



Brey 



Plum 



6 



Breynia foliis oblongo-ovalibus. Roy. £f L. Sp. PI. 



Cynophallophoros Jive penis caninus, &c. Pk. t. 172. f. 4. An, t. 221- 



f. 1 ? 

 Accaciis affinis Jilt 'quo/a arbor. Et cerationia affinis, &c. Slo. Cat. & H. 



The fhrubby B?~eynia. 



BREYNIA 2. Arborefcens, foliis ovatis utrinque acuminatis, filiqua torofa 





longifjim a . 



Breynia, &c. Pk. t. 327. f.6. 



Agati. 



H. M. p. 3. t. 51 



The larger Breynia. 





The firft of thefe plants is very common in the lower hilly lands of Jamaica-, it 



tufted form, and feldom lifes above five or fix feet in height: but the 

 other is more rare, and grows into a fhrubby tree. I have lecn only one plant of 

 this fecond fort : it grew near Port Antonio. 



grows in a 



BREYNIA 3. Fruticofa, foliis fingulartbus, oblongo- ovatis, fuperne nitidis, Ji- 



liquis minoribus teretibus aqualibus. Tab. 27. fig. 2. 



The Muftard-fhrub, with a willow-leaf. 



This plant is common in all the Savannas, and lowlands about Kingflon. It 

 grows generally to the height of nine or ten feet, and throws out a number of flen- 

 der fub-erecr branches, adorned with oblong leaves; which appear dirty and opake, 

 as if they were dufted, underneath. All the parts of the plant have a ftrong pun- 

 gent fmell and tafie, like moft of the muftard tribe. 



CRATEVA 1. Arborea triphylla, foliis ovatis glabris, racemis terminalibas. 



Arbor Americana triphylla, &c. Pk. t. 147. f. 6. 





The thin-leafed Crateva* or Garlick Pear. 



Pemant 



Monophylh 



panulatum, ad marginem 



liolis quatuor linearibus ornatum. 



iffdtum, fc 



Corolla Tetrapetala, pet a lis anguftis incequalibus declinatis 



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Stamina 



teriori caltcis 

 periantii oppofi 



iguibus tenuibus 



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e margine 

 rjiitiis Jolio. 



Filament a oc7odecim, velplura, ab imulo fuflentacido g 



Piftillum 



corolla duplo long 



declinata 



antherae oblong 



Sujientaculum in feme crajfum, ft y lob at if or me -, (up 



turn. 



& longitudme Jl 



jpojitum 



ftylus fup 



\um\ germen fubrotundum pan 

 llus ; fiigma obtufmjculum, germ 



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Peiicarpium. 



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