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and left to dry in fome open airy place, until it grows firm and hardj and then it is 

 fit for ufe, or the market. 



This plant is propagated by the feeds, and may be cultivated with great eafe, in 

 every moift and fertile vale among the hills. The wax is a cool agreeable 

 rich cordial, and has been long in ufe among the Indians and Spaniards in America, 

 who ftill mix it with their chocolate, both to heighten the flavour, and raife the 

 colour. It is faid to be a fuccefsful remedy in bloody-fluxes : it is alfo ufed as a 

 pigment; and not unfrequently mixed up with other ingredients, both by the painters 

 and the dyers. The roots have much the fame properties with the wax } but thefe 

 are obferved to work more powerfully by the urinary paflages : they are ufed by fome 

 people in their broths, and feem to anfwer all the purpofes of the pulp; but in a 



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T. II. 



Of Plants that have many Filaments, and four or more Styles in 



every Flower 



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ETRACERA? i. Foliis amplis ferratis, obovatis cum acumine ; capfulis bi~ 



ge minis. 



Arbor maxima forte prunifera, cortice canabina, &c. Slo.Cat. 184. & H. 



t. 130. 



An, arbor Americana convolvulacea, &c. Pk. t. 146. f. 1. 



The Broad- leaf Tree. 



This tree is pretty frequent in the woods of Jamaica, and commonly looked 

 upon as one of the beft timber-trees in the ifland. It grows to a very considerable 

 fize, and rifes, generally, by a ftraight well-proportioned trunk ; bearing its foliage 

 chiefly about the extremities of its branches. I have not met with any of the 

 flowers of this plant in a perfect flate, fo that I am obliged to range it from a very 

 uncertain examination. 



CLEMATIS r. Scandens, foliis quinquenerviis ovatis nitidis pinnato-ternatis. 

 Clematis. Mufei & The. Zey. 

 Clematis prima fve fy Ivefir is latifolia, &c. Slo.Cat. 84. & H. t. 128. 



The three-foliated Climber, or Traveller's-joy. 



I found this plant in the red hills ; it is a climber, and raifes itfelf frequently to 

 the top of the largeft trees in the wood : the ftalk is tough and (lender, and the leaves 

 roundifh and mining. 



ANNONA 1. Foliis oblongo- ovatis nitidis, fruttibus fpinis mollibus tumentibus 



obfitis. 

 Annona foliis ovali-lanceolatis nitidis plants, pomis muricatis. L. Sp. PI. & 



H.C. 



Anona maxima, &c. Slo. H. t. 225. G? Anona fruclu conoide virtdt, &c. 



Pk. t. 135. f. 2. 

 Anona fructu virefcenti. Muf. & The. Zey. 

 Guanabanus. Plum. 9. t. 10. 



The Sour-fop Tree. 



This (hrubby tree grows wild in all the low lands of Jamaica, and is one of the 

 moft common plants in every Savanna. It rifes generally to the height of twelve 

 or fifteen foot, fometimes more ; and bears a very large fucculent fruit, which is gene- 

 rally agreeable' to all new comers, and moft other over-heated habits : but it is fo com 



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