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Thefe plants are natives of J 



ds. The firft, and third, thrive beft in a dry 



and pretty common in moft parts of the 



but the fecond grows chiefly 



moid: bottoms. The nrft fpecies divides into many branches, and rifes generally 



height of three or four f 



The fecond is pretty fimpl 



d feldom 



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bove twenty or twenty-five inches. But the tail is generally found growing in tufts 



upon the ground 



d feldom runs above 



gth : it is, how 



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er, more fucculent than either of the others, and generally looked upon as a very 



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has a bitterifh tafte, and requires long boiling, and the 





waters being frequently (liifted^ to render it palatable. It is deemed a prefe 

 again/! the dry belly-ach j and, doubtlefs, claims a precedency, if any green can be 

 faid to be effe&ual, that way. 



Obf. J5& 1 Crateva, and other plants referred to that genus, do, undoubtedly 



belong to this clafs; and ought to be infer ted after the Cleomas. 



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Of Plants that have fix unequal Filaments, 



in every Flower. 



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ETIVERIA i. Foliis oblongo-ovatis, fpicis longioribus terminalibus. 



Petiveria. Plum. t. 39. & Lin. Gen. & Sp. Plant. 

 Verbenas feu Scorodonia ajfinis, &c. Slo. Cat. 64. 



Guinea Hen weed. 



Periantium. Periantii ffjilis <vicem fupplent fquama tres t linear es, ereSlv- 



patentes, laterales. 

 a. Squamas inter £f fpicam etnergit fos tetrapetalus, perfjiens; 



pet alls lanceolatis, angujlis > juve?itutealbidis ) erec~io-patentibus % 

 feneclute ereflis, virentibus. 

 Stamina. Filament a fex> quorum duo ceteris breviora funt £f oppojita; 



antherae Jubrotunda , 

 Piftillum. Germen Jubhirfutum y breve, cbtufum, ftyli quatuor, tenues, fe- 



Coroll 



tacei, rcfexi , ftigmata acutiffima. 



Pericarpium. Capfula coriacea, oblonga, obtufa y comprejfa, unilocular is t bl 



cornis , fngulis fetis binis rigidis refexis, munitis* 

 Vnicum oblongum, ad apicem appendiculd ligulatd refexd inftruftum. 



This plant is very common in all the lower lands of Jamaica ; and fo remark- 



It is 



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ably acrid, that you can hardly bear either to fmell or tafte any part of it. 

 thought to t>e, much coveted by the Guinea hens ; and frequently a part of the food 



of other animals : but, on chewing a little of any part of the plant, it burns in the 



mouth, and leaves the tongue black, dry, and rough ; as it frequently appears in 

 malignant fevers. It thrives bed in a dry gravelly foil, and a {haded fituatiou. 







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