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any 



This plant is alfo propagated in all our fugar-colonies, tho' feldom cultivated by 

 but thoie that have a particular fancy for the fruit of it, which, when ripe, is 



fweet, clammy, and foft> but it lies heavy upon the ftomach. 



It is faid to kill the 



worms in children. 





M USA 3. Spadice ereflo, f pat his rlgidis ample xantibus dijliche & alternating 



It IS. 



Mufa Jpadice ereclo. L. Sp. PI. & Bihai. Plum. Gen. t. 3. 

 Muia humilior foliis minonbus nigricantibus, 6cc. Slo. Cat. 193. 



The wild Plantane Tree. 



This beautiful plant grows wild in moft of the cooler mountains of Jamaica; 



and thrives very luxuriantly in every rich and well-(haded gully among the woods. 



In its growth and leaves it perfectly refembles the other fpecies ; but it differs very 

 widely from them in the form and ftruclure of the more effential parts j for which 

 reafon I have been induced to give the characters of it here at large. 



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Spadix /implex y ereclus 5 floribus fafciculatis. 



Spatha?, fingulis fajei cutis Jingulce y communes^ alternce^ rigidce, acuminata^ 



ereclo-pattntes, ad later a comprejja^ a?nplex antes, dijliche fit a, 

 Flores fafciculati, aquales £? conjlmiles^ jpathis propriis membranaceis mino- 

 nbus di/lincli, intra jpathas communes reconditi. 



Periantium Proprium nullum. 



Corolla, JJt in vulgar 7. 



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tannna. 



Ft lament a qmnque, (cum rudimento fexti neclario adnata) longi- 

 tu dine fere flor 'is ,ab infima parte petali orta, & antheris oblon- 

 gis angujlis donata : anthera rudimenti vero imperfecta eft. 



Piftillcm. Germen oblongum, obtuje trigonum, florem fuftinens; Ry lus Jim- 



Pericar 



plex, longitudme fori 



s 



fligma acutum. 



P 



Bacca fucculenta, carulea, fubro£unda t obtufa & obtuje-triloba^ 



Semi; 



na 



trilocularis. 



Sclitaria oblonga, naucis ligneis~rzi?ofis tec~la. 





In the blofibms of th 



bottom of the 



But, 



P 



J 



flower- leaf, 



we find five perfect filaments mooting from the 

 ind one imperfect filament from the ne&arium. 



in the others, it is quite the contrary, for five of the filaments are imperfect 



and the only 



berries are fmali and fu 



her wife rifes from 



neBari 



In this 



d 



three hard rugged feed 



but 



the 

 in 



the others, the fruit is covered with a thick ikin, which contains a foft pulpy fub 



fiance 



ANDROPOGON 1. Polydaflylon affurgens fpicis tenuioribus hirfutis. 

 Gramen DacJrlon elalius, &c. Si. H. t. 65. f. 2 a & Pluck, t. 245. f. 1. 

 Gramen daily hides deorjum arijiatis. Thez. Zey. t. 47. 



The ered: Andropogeo?i with many flender fpikes. 



In this fpecies the fpikes are generally from 



d rife immediately 



from the top of the (talk : they are all flender and flowered underneath, the parts 



of which are as f 



viz. 



Periantium Dupl 



Exteri 



Corol 1 



a 



Interius. 



fetd termini 

 circulo pikjt, 

 minata. 

 Gluma bivalvis ; 



Glum a bivalvis 



Gluma uniflora bivalvis, valvis oblong 



altera 



minor inft 



vula altera major 



contract a. rotundata 



f up erne amp 



u 



& arijl 



licis proprii obvoluti 



alvulis obkngis Jimplicibus i valvuld majori 



ANDRO 





