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This plant was alfo introduced to J 



from Europe ; and 



cultivated in feveral parts of the ifland, but does not thrive well any 



feldom riles above two feet in height, 



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half grown : 



uncommon at the gentlemens tabic 



nd (hoots into bloflbms befo 

 however, produce a good many pods, which 



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Tetraphylla y Jiliquas infra t err am re con dens ; Jc mini 'bus o' ngis 





ARACH1S i. 



Arachidna. Plum 



Arachis. Gen. & L. Sp. PI 



Arachidna utriujque India, &c. SIo. Cat. 72. 



Sena tetraphylla, feu apfi congener folliculos con J, 



Pindar s y or Ground-Nuts. 



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60. f. 



The feeds of this plant are frequently imported to Jamaica, in the (hips from 

 Africa-, and fometimes cultivated there, though it is but very rarely, and in very 

 fmall quantities. It thrives befl in a free foil, and warm fituaiion j and would grow 

 very well in many parts of that ifland, was it regularly cultivated. 



iESCHINOMENE 1. Procumbens, foliolis pinnatis mimulis, ramulis tcnuif- 



fim is. 

 iEfchinomene caule hifpido^ foliolis aciminatis, leguminum articulis fub- 



orbiculatis. L. Sp. PI. 



ttedyfarum caule hirfuto, mimofa filiis, Sec. Slo. Cat. 74. 

 Hedyfarum annuum, minus Zeylonicum. Bur. Thcz. Zey. 





The flender fenfitive JEfchinomcne. 



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This plant is very common in many places, on the fouth-fide of the ifland , efpe- 

 cially about Old-harbour ', and near Mr. Elletfons, in the lower hills of Liguanea. 

 It is a delicate flender plant, and grows rarely above two feet and a half, or three 

 feet, in height ; but it feldom flands upright. 



ZOOPHTHALMUM r. Siliquis tnajoribus hirtis tranj erfe fulcatis, pedun 



cults communibus tenuibus longifjimis fexilibufque appenfn 



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Phafeolus Brajilianus frutefcens, &c. P 



Phafeolus Indicus lobis villofis prurituin excitantibus. Muf. & Thez. Zey 



The Ox-eye Bean. 



qj carina adnata : carina oblonga 



Periantium Monophyllum, tubulato-campanulatum, bi labia turn: labium fu- 



rius return, obtufum & leniter crenatum : inferius majus, 

 tridentatum. 



Corolla Leguminojd : vexillum maximum, reclum, cor datum, ad apicem le- 



niter crenatum, cateris fruflificationis partibus incumbens: alae 



oblonga, ad ungues aurita, 



compreffa ; petalis reflis, fuperne liberis, ad ungues adnatis. 

 Filamenta decern diadelphia: fuperius ant herd depreJJ'd donatum; 



inferiora vero ant her is obiongis, pradiia junt. 

 Suflentaculum nullum, germen oblongum-, ftylus longus-, ftigma 

 obtujum /implex. 

 Pericarpium. Si It qua major, fubcomprejfa, hirta £? tranfverfe fulcata, ad 



utrumque marginem craffa, feminibus paucis rejerta. 

 Semina Orbiculata fubcomprejfa, putamine durifjimo tecla, & fafcid tri- 



amina. 



Pimilum, 



colori variegatd, per tot am fere marginem ducld, nofata. 



This plant is very common in the inland parts of Jamaica 

 top of the talteft trees in the wood, throwing down 



d climbs 



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its long flender flower 



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