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different carriag 



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the rainy feafons. It rifes generally 



heisht of 



fourteen inches 



d bear 



fometimes two, often three, and fometimes 



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Cue or verticillated order. The flowers of this plant are variegated 



g° J g 



d more regularly labiated than thofe of the fore 



and the cup 



(if I remember right) is made up of five lanceolated 



but the reft of the 



racte 



ery nearly, the fame in both p 



SESAMUM i. Foliis inferior ibus trifidh dentatis, fupcriofibus oblongis ft 



ratis. 



Sefamum foliis inferioribus trifidis. Roy. & L. Sp. PI 



Dig 



orient alis fefamum dicJa Tournefort 



&c 



Th. Zey. t. 3 8 



Sefamum veterum, &c. Slo. Cat. 59. & Pk. 1. 109. f. 4 



The Vanglo^ or Oil-plant. 



SESAMUM 2. Foliis omnibus oblongis fer rat is. 





Schit-E! 



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II. M 



p. 9 



54- 





The Vaughn with fimple lea 



Thefe plants were introduced to "Jamaica by the Jews, and are now cultivated 

 moft parts of the ifland : the feeds are frequently ufed in broths, by many of c 



the Jews make 'em chiefly into cakes. The plants are in g 



Enrop 



but 



fteem among many of the 



who look up 



wholefome food 



d 



preis 



from them, th 



is n 



feeds as a hearty 

 nlike, or inferior 



I of almonds j which ufed to be formerly kept in the {hops, in many parts 

 '. A decoction of the leaves, and buds, is looked upon as a good resolu- 

 tive j and frequently ordered in inflammations of the eyes, where warm fomentations 

 become requisite. The Sefamum plant is cultivated in Carolina 



to, 



of Europ 



a 



a 



IS 



pound 



f 



P 



ted the 



th 



fu ccefs 



nine pounds of the feed yield upwards of 



oil, "which they find to grow more mellow and agreeable, with 



g 



and to continue without any rancid fmell 



tafte, for many vears 



i 



ERIPHIA 1. Foliis ovatis fe 





nfertis ad ah 



oppofitis, venis 



obliqi 



floribui 







The Eripbia, with ferrated leaves. 



Periantium Monophyllum ventricofum quinquedentatum prcegnans 



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Corolla Monopetala tubulata j faux leniter amp I 



Stam 



titus, laciniis parvis j'ubrotundis 



limbus quinquep 



Piftill 



Perica rp 



Filamenta quatuor y cum rudimento quinti, inferne tubo adnata % 

 fuperne libera, arcuata, conniventia j antheras agglutinates. 

 Germen globofum, calice tedium -, flylus /implex, longitudine tubi 

 corolla ; ftigma bifidum. 



11 . Bacca globoja, calice tecia £f coronata, unilocular is, fed bifa- 



riam longitudinaliter notata. ' 



Semina Plurima tninutijjima, umbilico colutnari adnati. 

 I met with this plant in fome part of Sixteen-mile-walk $ but do not directly 





member where, nor the pecu 

 juft as they were taken upon the fp 



of 



growth. The characters are p 



down 



ACHIMENES 



1 



Major, herbacea,fubhirfuta, oblique a Jfur gens ; folii. 

 crenatis oppofitis, alternis minoribus ; floribus ge 



ad alas altemas 



Tab. 30. f . 3 





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Rapunculas fruticofus, foliis oblongis integras, &c. Slo. Cat. 58. &H 



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The larger hairy Ach 



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