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Stamina. Filament a quatuor erecla, ferd aquah a ', corolla longiora ; antherae 



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oblongce. 

 Piftillum. Germen jubrotundum quadrihbum\ ftylus longitudine tubiHi 



ftigma 



Pericarpium Nullum. Calix immutatus in Jinu Jemina ft 

 Semina Quatuor oblonga. 



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This plant is common inmoft parts of the country : it grows chiefly in rich and 

 fhady places, and feldom rifes above three feet in height. 



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ORIGANUM i. Foliis ovalibus obtu/is, fpicis fubrotundis compaBis pubefct 





'bus. L. Sp. PI. & H. C 



Marjorum 











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This plant is cultivated in the mountains of New Liguanea, where it th 

 :11, and is propagated with eafe. 



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MELISSA i . Floribus ex alis infer ioribus fir me fejjilibus. L. H. C. & 

 MeliiTa race mis axillaribus verticillatis j pedicellis fimplicibus. Sp. PI. 



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This plant is cultivated in fome of the gardens of Jamaica ; but it feldom thrives 

 with that luxuriancy, that many other European plants do. 



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SCUTELLARIA I. Sylvejlris, eretla, ramofa; foliis ovatis; foribus 



jeffilibus, per /picas terminales opjpofitis. 

 Ocimum rubrum medium. Slo. Cat. 65. 



Wild Bafil. 



This plant is met with in all parts of the country ; and may, with great reafon 

 be deemed one of the natives of the ifland. It has much the fame make fmell 

 and tafte, with the common garden Bafil ; from which it differs only by the inver- 

 fion of the flower, and formation of the cup. 



OCYMUM 1. Ereflum ramofum & fpicatum, foliis ovatis glabris. 

 Ocimum foliis ovatis glabris, calicibus ciliatis. L. Sp. PI. & H. C. 



Great Bafil. 



There is no plant more common than this, in the gardens of Jamaica-, nor one 

 that thrives more luxuriantly in every foil, and part of the ifland. 



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Of fuch as have their feeds inclofed in convenient feed-veffels. 



UPHRASIA 1. Repens, foliis oblongis integris, capfulis longioribus fub- 



arcuatis. 



The creeping Eyebright. 



This is a native of Mountferat : it is a low creeping plant, and generally fpreads 

 about leven or eight inches round the root. It grows near Mr. William Lee's, at the 

 foot of the main mountain. 



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