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CROTON 7. Fruticofum-, foliis fubrotundo-ovatis, fubtus fubm 



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nis; Jpicillis alaribits 

 An Croton foliis ovatis glabris, caule arbo 



&c 



L. So. PI 



An Malijolio arbor artemifa odore, &c. Slo. Cat. 139. 6c H, 

 An Ricinoides aromat tea arbor ea, Thez. Zey. t. 91. 





The larger Croton 



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with roiindifh leaves. 



This plant is pretty common in all the low lands about Spanijh Town and King- 

 Jion : it grows in a fhrubby form, and is feldom under feven or eight feet in height. 

 All the parts of the plant are of an active warm nature, and have a pretty agreeable 

 fmell. It is a fhrub, like this, and of the fame genus, that yields the gum lac of 

 the (hops. 



JATROPHA 1. Affurgens, feus folio, fore herbaceo. 

 Jatropha foliis cordatis, angulatis. L. Sp. PI. 5c H. C. 

 Ricinus feus folio, fore pentapetalo, Sec. Slo. Cat. 40. 

 Munduy-Guacu. 



Pif.i 



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This pi 



The Phyfic-Nut Tree. 



very common in all the fugar-colonies, and cultivated frequently 



inclofu 



grows fometim 



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f feven or eisht feet 



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better ; but 



dies after a few y 



The leaves are much ufed in refolutive baths and fom 



tions, and the feeds fometimes as a pur 

 therefore, now, but little ufed. 



but they operate very violently, and 



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JATROPHA 2. Humilior fetis ramofs ornata j foliis trihbis vel quinquelobis 



levifjime denticulatis. 



Jatropha foliis quinquep 



L. Sp. PI 



lobis ovatis integris, fetis ramofs glandulofi. 



Ricinus minor jlaphijhgrice Jolio, fore purp 



Sb. Cat. & H. t. 84 



Wild Cafe 



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Cafadar 







This plant is very common abou t Kingjlon ; and in moil other parts of the ifland, 

 where the foil is dry and gravelly, and the fituation warm. It grows moll luxuri- 

 antly about houfes, where the ground is warmed with dung j and rifes, in fuch 

 places, to the height of three feet and a half, or better. It is a very beneficial 

 plant in every plantation where they raife any quantity of poultry j for mod forts of 

 birds, efpecially thofe of the craw'd kind, feed much on its feeds. Mr. Hughes, 

 of Barbadoes, allures us, that an excrefcence is generally found in the body of the 

 ftalk of this plant, which, he fays, is a powerful purgative and fternutatory : but 

 the fwellings, in which it is generally found there, is feldom obferved in any of 

 thofe plants 'wifamaica-, and probably may be the effect of fome infects peculiar 

 to that ifland. A decoction of the leaves is fometimes ufed as a purgative in the 

 dry belly- ach. 





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IATROPHA 3. Affurgens, foliis digit atis, laciniis anguflis pimiatifidis. 

 Iatropha foliis multipartitis levibus, fipulis fetaceis multifidis. L. Sp. PI. 



& H. C. 



Ricinus Americanus leniter divifo folio, Slo. Cat. 40. 



French Phyiic Nut. 



This plant is pretty much raifed in 7 



many of their flower- gard 



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feet, and th 



rows 



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d forms no fmail ornament in 

 lly to the height of five, fix, or fe- 



ers, that 

 ftand 



pretty large bunches of beautiful reddifh flow 







