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CRESCENTIA ? 6. Scandem, foliis inferioribus pinnato-ternatis, fuperioribus 



geminatis claviculd int er pofit i s . 

 Cucurbitifera fruticofa tripbylla fcandens t &c. Slo. Cat. 207. & H. ii. 



175- 



The trifoliated climbing Crefcentia. 



Periantium Monophyllum oblongum tubulatum truncation integrum. 



tubulata, longifjima, (heptapollicaris-,) tubus cylindra- 



Corolla Monop 



ceus. 



p 6 



•ft 



dj 



leniter ampl 



Stam 



tulus, in quinque I acini as ovatas fere cequales feci us 



mbus erecJo pa 



Filamenta quatuor 

 libera 



r 



; an the* a? oblonga, bilobce, qua fi g 

 Piftillum. Germen fubrotundum liber urn in /'undo cah 



dim en to quint /', tubo adnata, in ft 



s 



ftylus/, 



plex, longitudine flaminum ; fligma bilameltatum obtu/i 

 Pericarpium. Drupa magna obionga unilocularis, fed interne bifana, 



Sem 



Plurima nidul 



& pulpd bifariam lobatd, repu 





This climbing plant is frequent in 



many parts of tbe ifland ; but feems mod 

 common between St. Elizabeth's, and JVeJlmor eland. It rifes, with great eafe, to ,he 

 top of the talleft trees in the woods j and then fpreads a great way over the limbs of the 

 neighbouring trees, or bends again towards the ground. Jt is generally more luxuri .nt 



towards the top; and as this part requires a greater fupport, nature has lupplied 



it, in a peculiar manner, with tendrels: for the leaves, which are always th.ee on 

 every common foot-ftalk, towards the root, are never more than two at the top ; 

 but the extremity of the common dalle, which generally holds the third leaf in the 

 lower branches, (hoots, here, into a long winding tendrel, by which it holds and 

 flicks to every twig, or branch, it meets. 



VITEX 1. Arboreus, foliis ovatis, crenatis, quinato- digit atis ; petiolis commu- 



nibus oppofitis, racemis laxis alaribus. 

 Vitex foliis quinatis ternatifque ferratis, floribus racemofopaniculatis. 



L. 



Sp. PI. 



The larger Chafte-Tree 



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with jagged leaves. 



This tree is frequent in St. Marys, and grows generally to a very confiderable 

 fize: it is eafily diftinguifhed by its crenated leaves, bunchy flowers, large berries, 

 and the variegated under-lip of its bloffoms ; the main divilion of which, is of the 



figure of a heart. 



The ftyle is bind, and each part pretty mort. 



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RUELLIA 1. Procerior, fubcinerea, hirfuta-, pedunculis ramofis-, fore mul- 



tiplici. 



Ruellia pedunculis dichotomis paniculatis, foliis petiolatis. L. Sp- PI. 

 Ruellia pedunculis mult i for is dichotomis, foliis long i or i bus. L. H. C. 

 Speculum veneris majus impatiens, &c. Slo. Cat. 59. & H. t. 100. 



Chrift 



mas 



Prid 



e. 





This plant is very common about Spanifi Town, and in many other parts of the 

 lands j where it generally blows in the months of December and January 



and 



makes a very beautiful appearance among the buflies, in that bleak ieafon of the 



year 



The pi 



weakly, and feldom rifes abo 



foot or two, if 



when fupported by any of the fmall neighbouring ihrub 

 quently to the diftance of three or four feet from the roc 

 ber of flowers. 



bufhes 



but 

 fre- 



and bears a great num 



RUELLIA 





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