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Spatha Tri- vel quadriphylla, foliis cblongis mollibus amplexantibus. 

 Spadix Simplex conico-cylindraceus, capfulis baccatts fejfilibus obtufis de- 

 press & fere connatis, in fpicam uniform em re daft is, onujlus. 

 Corolla. Flores alii mares, alii feminae, alternatim mixti in eodem jpadice. 



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Periantium Quadrigonum, cuneiforme, carnofum, ad apicem lineis variis 



tiotatum. 

 Corolla Nulla. 



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Stamina. Rudimenta quatuor craffa brevia, antheris numerofjjimis oblon- 







gis injiruEta. 



Femina. 









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Periantium Craffum carnofum quadratum, mafculinis intcrpofitum, foliolis 



quatuor minimis margini incumbentibus omatum. 

 Corolla Nulla. Stamina Nulla. 



Piitillum. Germen crajfum, quadratum, coronatum, pragnans ; ftyli qua-' 



tuor vei plures, N longifjimi, incumbentes j fligmata Jimplicia 



acuta. 





Pericarpi um. Capful a fucculenta, b ace at a, angulata, infer ne crajjior, ad 



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ipicem angujiior, quadriloculat 



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This plant is very frequent m-yamaica, particularly about the Crefcence ; and is often 

 ufed for thatch, tho' not fo good as the other leaves commonly employed for that 

 purpofe. The foot-ftalks are exactly like fo many joints of well-grown waiking- 

 caaes> both in (hape and fize ; but they foon wither and fhrivel up. The berries are 

 iweet, and fed upon much by the birds. 



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ARUM I. Caule erecJo, geniculate?, inferne nudo; foliis major ibus oblongo* 



ovatis. 





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An, Arum caulefcens foliis fagittatis. - L. Sp. PI i 



Arum caule genie ulato, cannce Indicce foliis, &G. SIo. Cat. 63. 



Aninge i 3 . Pif. 220. 



The Dumb Cane. 



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This plant is common in moft parts of America, and grows chiefly in cool and 

 moift places. The flalk is ufed to bring fugar to a good grain, when the ju 



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fcid, and cannot be brought to granulate rightly with lime alone. Trapham recom 

 mends a decoction of the plant by way of fomentation in hydropic cafes: and i 

 certainly mult be a ftrong relolutive, which cannot fail to fhengthen and fti 

 inulate the relaxed fibres, in fuch cafes. 





ARUM 2. Scandens triphyllum. foliis exterioribus auritis, petiolis vaginan 



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Arum maximum ft andem^ genlculatum & trifoliatum. Slo. Cat. 63, 



The trifoliated Arum, or Wake-Robin. 



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This plant is pretty frequent in all the hills of Jamaica, and generally found 

 climbing among the neighbouring trees. It is the only fpecies that is obierved to 

 be furnilhed with compound leaves in that ifland. 





ARUM 3. Scandens, foliis. majoribus crenato-laceris, petiolis fmplicibus. 

 Arum maximum altifjime fcandens, &c. Slo. Cat. 63. 

 An, Elitta di Maravara. H. M. p. 12. t. 20 ? 



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The large climbing Wake- Robin, .with torn leaves. 



ARUM 





