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MIMOSA 2. Diffufa, /pica oblonga, filiquis longioribus comprejji 



The Poponax. 



This (hrub has been introduced to Jamaica, from the main continent, and thrive 

 very luxuriantly in many parts of the low lands, where it is obferved to rife, fre 



quently, to the height of fou 

 the foregoing fp 



fifteen feet 



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fo pricklv 



nd 



rather larger. It is of a fpreading g 



d furnifhed with oblong flower-fpikes 



MIMOSA 3. Arbor ea, cortlce cinereo, [pica globofa, Jiliqua interne rubent 



Acacia 



bo 



feminibus fpharicis atro-nitentibus 



maxima 



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fpinofi 



majoribus 



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The mountain or wild Tamarind Tree. 



Th 



is a native of Jamaica, and found in moil: parts of the ifland : it g 



very considerable fiz 



d is looked upon as an excellent timber- wood 



The 



fmall, and bipinnated, and the feeds of a fhining black 



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MIMOSA 4. Fruticofa, foliis ovatis binato-binatis; feminibus comprefjis, atro- 

 nitentibus, flocculis rubellis adnatis. 

 Mimofa inermis, foliis bipinnatis, leguminibus fpinaliter circumvolutis, &c 



L. Sp. PJ. 



Acaciae quodammodo acced 



&c 



Pk 



f. 4. & Avaramothemo 



Pif. 



Acacia arbor e a major fpinofa, pinnis quatuor majoribus t 6cc. 

 Acacia foliis amplioribus. Catefb. ii. t. 97. 



The Black -bead fhrub, or large-leafed Mimofa. 



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This plant is freq 



to 



feet in heig 



mod parts of America, where it generally grows from 

 Pifo defervedly 



the bark of th 



as a 



fome 1 



great aftringent, and recommends the decoction of it by way of lotion, or 

 tation, when the parts are more than ufually relaxed in the other fex : but fuch ap 



plications fhould be ufed with great 



d only at par 



MIMOSA 5. Fruticofa, fpinis aduncis undique armata -, cortice cinereo, foliis 



minutis pinnatis, fpicis globofis. 



Mimofa foliis conjugatis pinnatis, foliolis aqualibus, caule aculeis incurvis 



munito. L. Sp. PI. 

 Acacia aculeata multiflora, foliis pinna s avium referentibus. Bur. Thez 



. Zey. 



Fingrigo, or the thorny Mimofa. 



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This prickly fhrub is frequent in moft of the fugar-colonies, efpecially in Antigua ; 



where the leaves are frequently ufed, mixed with 

 is thought to free them from botts and worms 



It 



for their riding-horfes 



g 



d 

 tufted form, and 



feldom rifes above five or fix feet from the ground j tho' it fpreads a great deal more 



& . ~wtb 



MIMOSA 6. Fruticofa inermis diffufa major, fpicis globofis, pinnulis minutif 



fme foliolatis. 

 Acacia arborea maxima, fore flaw odoratiffimo, 



The fmooth Accacee. 



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