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que, emergit appendix ligiilata^ majufcula, invicem appropinquate, 



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lit minor is vicem j'uppedit 



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Germen 



ma latin fail 



ftylus Jubulatus, longitudine Jlaminum ; ft 



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Pericarpium, - Capjula unilocular! $\ tnonofpennis^ fubrotunda^ fcabra % in 



alam membranaceam obbngam major em dejinens. 



SECURIDACA 2. Scandens > foliis oblongis y fpicis raniofi 





Securid 







L. Sp. PI 



The 1 larger climbing Securidaca, 



firft 



Both thefe plants are natives of Jamaica^ but not common. I found 

 fpecies in 6'/. James's, the other in the red hills. The former grows upright, and 

 divides, into a number of very delicate Spreading branches; the other is a climber, 



and more 



unant in every part. 











AMERIMNON i . Fruticofum ; foliis nitidis , fimplicibus, cordatOrdcuminatis. 

 . • Tab. 31. f.3. 



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The fhrubby Amerimnon^ with fimple alternate leaves. 



Periantium Breve cylindraceum, quaji bilabiatum j labium fupei 





turn ; 



ferius trident "at 



v. 



Corolia Papillionacea : vexillum ereflum y oblongum, obverje cordatum 



alas 





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oblongte, eretl'a, later ales, longitudine & fojitione vexilli : carina 

 brevis, ovata, comprejfa, ad ungues alarum pojita. 



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d bajim coalita, fuperne Jibet 



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htherary^ 



Pitt 



Sufi 



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flign 



ermen oblongum comprejfum ; ftylus bre- 



Pericarpium. Siliqua oblonga comprejja, feminibus bihis vel ternis referta. 

 This fhrub is very common in the low lands, and remarkable for the vaft quan 



of white flowers it th 



out, aft 



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rifes generally to the height of feven or eight feet, fometimes more 



It grows very bu£by, and 







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Of juch as have ten Filaments in every Flower* 



RYTHRINA 1. Arborea, fpinofa & non fpinofa \ foliis rhomb ceis, piimato- 



ternatis. 



Erythrina foliis ternatis, caule arbor eo j'pinofo, ( L. Sp. PI. & H. C. 

 Coral arbor Clufii. Slo. Cat. 142. & H. t. 178. 

 Corallodendron triphyllum Americanum, &c. Thez. Zey. 

 Muruca. H. M. p. 6. t. 7. 



The Coral or Red Bean Tree 



This tree grows in many parts of J 





nd rifes, generally 



fixteen or eighteen feet. There are many reafons that ind 



me 



the height of 

 think it not 



a native ; but to have been introduced to that ifland in the time, of the Spaniards 



ufed to plant it among their Cacao 



wh 



to the weather 



order to break the force of the wind, in 1- 



here the walks lay mod expoied 



nit wcaiuti , in v-nu^i I.V, uivatw me luicc ui luc wiuu, jii nurucanc I 



hence it has acquired the appellation of Mader di Cocco, , among them 



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The feeds of this tree are of a beautiful red 



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