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The fmaller Indian Kale. 





This plant is cultivated by many people in Jamaica : it is much like the former, 

 and frequently uftd for the fame purpofes. 





ARUM 9. Acaule 



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oblongd fib rat a, foliis ampliorib 



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Arum acaule, foliis peltato-ovatis bafi bipartitis. L. H. C. 

 An, Colocafia quod Arum maximum Zeyhfiicum, radice craJJ'a. Thez. Zey. 68 





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The large wild Wake-Robia 



This plant is very common among the rocks, in many parts of the ifland : the 

 leaves are very large, and rife immediately from a thick lengthened root. 





ARUM 10. Acaule fubcae rule um maximum, foliis amplifjimis cordato-fagit 



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Colocafia Strongylorrhiza Zeylonica, &c. Thez. Zey. 68; 



The Baboon or Hog Cocco, 



-.The root of this plant grows to a monflrous fize, and is very coarfe: it is of an 

 eafy growth, and planted chiefly for the hogs, which it is faid to fatten very well. 





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ARUM 1 1. Scan dens, foliis cordaiis, petiolis rotundis. 



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climbing Wake-Robin 



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foot-ftalks. 





ARUM 12. Tenue fcandens, foliis oblongis, petiolis alatis amplexantibtis. 

 Phylitidi fcandenti affinis major, &c. Slo. Cat. 15. 6c H. t. 27. 



The climbing Wake-Robin, with oblong leaves and edged foot-ftalks. 



This plant is only to be met with in the mofl lonely inland woods : it climbs 

 with great eafe, and grows more fucculent and luxuriant towards the top. 



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ARUM 13. Parafticum minus, foliis ovatis punftatis glabris, fpica brevi* 





The fmall parafitical Wake-Robin. 



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I found this little parafitical plant in the woods above St. Ann's bay. The ftem is 

 flender and magged, and adorned with a few oval leaves : it flicks pretty clofe to the 



trunk of whatever tree it grows upon ; but feldom runs above two or three feet in 

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