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The fmaller French Honey-fuckle, with coupled leaves. " 



This plant is very common in all the Savannas about Old-harbour, and many 

 other parts of the ifiand : itfeldom rifes above fixteen or feventt n inches in height; 

 is furniihed with leaves, difpofed by couples, on common foot- /talks; and bears its 

 numerous yellow flowers, on foliated fpikes, at the extremities of the branches. 



HEDYSARUM n. Pentapbyllum minus, reclinatum. 



The fmaller pentaphyllous French Honey-fuckle 



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mountains of Wejlmordand 



fixteen or eighteen inches ii 



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barracks, in the 



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eakly reclining plant, and feldom grows ab 



It is generally found in beds. 





INDIGOFERA i. Dccompojita, diff'u 'fa, minor £? humilior ; ramis gratilib 



Indigo fera leguminib 



folio brevioribus, L. Sp. PI 



Indigofera L. H. C. G? anil five Indigo Indicd, Mprif. & Caachira. Ph. io/j 

 Colutea Indica humilis ex qua Indigo, folio viridi. Muf. & Th 

 Colutea: ajjinis fruticofa floribus Jpicatis, 



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Slo. Cat. 141. & H. t. 179 





The Indigo Piai 



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This plant is not fo hardy, nor does it give fo g^od a pulp as the following fp 



cies 



but 



yields a. great deal more of the dye than cither of 





that reafon, generally preferred 



and is, for 



h fu bjedt to a great many more mifch 



ces. 



The plant feldom rifes above two feet and a half, in height; 'and ieems to d 



vide, rather than to branch in its growth 













OFERA 2. Apirgem minuftiite Hivifa, rvrndis crajjioribus JI, 





fpicis axitia 





The Guatimala Indigo Plant 



This p! 



does not yield fo g 



ch hardier than the foregoing, and affords a finer pulp: but 

 rat a quantity of it ; and is only cultivated where the feafons a 



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mixt fields 



feet 



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It grows commonly to the height of three or fo 



ood many fub-erec~t branches as it rifes 





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INDIGOFERA 3. AJfurgens, fubvillofa & fubcinerea ; ramuiis crajjioribus ~, 



■Jiliquis arcuatis, brevioribus, rejlexo-patentibus. 



The wild Indigo. 



This laft fpecies is very common in 'Jamaica, and grows wild in all the Savannas, 

 where, doubtleis, it had been cultivated in former times: for there, we often meet 

 with fome of thofe Indigo- works, that were then built ; which remain very perfect 

 to this day. The plant is harder than any of the. other forts, and grows very luxu- 

 riantly even in the dryeft Savanna lands; but it does not -yield fo much pulp as 

 either of them : the dye, however, that is extracted from it, is generally the bell 5 

 of a fine copper i(h caft, and a clofe grain. 



All the fpecies feem to thrive bed in a free rich foil, and a warm fituation ; 

 but,, to anfwer the labourers toil to his fatisfaclion, they fhould be cultivated where 

 they may be pretty frequently refrefhed with moifture. All the different forts are now 

 propagated in every part of America^ where Indigo is made; and generally cultiva- 

 ted and manufactured in the following manner, vu 



Having firlT: chofen a 

 as you purpofe for the immediate culture of this vegetable; you 



land mult be firfl howed into little 



proper piece of ground, and cleared fuch a part of it 



may begin to 



plant in any feafon of the year: but the 



trenches, not above two inches, or two inches and a half, in depth; nor more 



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