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This plant is frequently cultivated in the gardens of Jamaica, on account cf it 

 cooling pulpy fruit, which is greatly efteemed by moft people in thofe warm cli- 

 mates. The feeds, like thofe of the mu ill- melon, are much ufed in cooling and 

 nutritive emuliions. 



CUCURBITA i. Foliis quinquelobis, lobis fubangnfis denticalatis, frudiu nl 



tido ovato aquali. 

 An, Pafii flora foliis palmatis jerraiis. L. Sp. PI. 



The fmall Gourd 



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divided leaves. 



t his plant 



rows wild in the moil lofty mountains of New Liguanea. 



The 



pulp of the. fruit is quite infipid, and divided into three diilinc! mailes, as in the 

 re(t of this tribe j which, with the form of the feeds, hath induced me to range it 

 in the fame clafs, tho' I have not feen any of the flowers. 



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CUCURBITA 2. Villofa, fruBu pyriformi minor 7, foliis fubangulatis bafi 



bislandulis. 



Cucurbita Jolt 7 s fubangulatis foment ofs, bafi fubtus biglandulofs pomis lig- 



nofis. 



L. Sp. PI. 



The fmall Gourd. 



This plant is found, either cultivated or wild, in moll: parts of Jamaica, where 

 the fhells of the fruit are generally ufed for water-cups ; and frequently ferve for bot- 



tles among the negroes and poorer fort of white people, in the country parts of the 



; leaves is recommended much in purging clyfters; 



iiland. The decoct ion of th 



and the pulp of the fruit often employed in refolutive poultices : it is bitter and 



purgative; and may be ufed, inftead of the common coloquintida, upon occafions. 



CUCURBITA 3. FruBu maximo fubrotund 



Cucurbita foliis fuhangulati 



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L. Sp. PI 





The large Gourd 



This pi 



ed in many parts of J, 



on account of the lignous 



fhell of its fruit, which grows frequently large enough to contain between twenty and 



irty quart 



Where 



ferved 



thefe fhells ; bu 



d fmall g 



is manufactured 

 Jamaica, they 



any quantity 



commonly pre 



fed only to hold 



CUCURBITA 4. FruBu longijfimo, bipedali, incurve, obtufo. 

 An, Trichofanthes pomis teretibus cblongis incurvis. L. Sp. PJ. 

 Curuba. Pif. 262. 



The flender winding Gourd. 



This plant is, like the reft of the kind, fometimes planted in Jamaica, on ac- 

 count of its fruit j but it is not fo common, nor the fhell fo much efteemed. 



T^ICHOSANTHES 1. Foliis denticulatis 



quandoqne 



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Jin, Trichofanthes pomis turbinat 



cordatis \ fruBu fnbrotundo 



quandoq 



L. Sp. PI 



The wild Trichofanthes* with denticulated leaves 



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This plant is a native of Jamaica, and grows wild in the cooleft parts of New 

 Liguanea : the pulp of the fruit is very bitter, and the feeds black. I have not ken 

 any of the flowers ; nor ever met with the plant in any other part of the iiland. A 



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