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I have met with a young plant of this form, in the parifli of St. James's; 

 but of what peculiar clafs or growth it may be, I could not difcover. The figure 

 of the leaves is pretty well reprefented in Plucknet. 



PLANTA 23. Erefia indhifa \ foliis comojis, oblongis hirtis, fviuatis; petio- 





lis marginatis 





I found this young pi 



near 



that reprefented in Pk. tab. 424. f* 4 



the Waterfall, in Ma 



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HERNANDIA 24. Arborea, foliis cordato-peltatis, capfuld tenui apertd. 

 Hernandia. Plum. & L. Sp. PL & Flo.Zey. 

 Balantine. Pet. Gazo. 43. f. 1. 

 Nux vefcaria oleofa, foliis umbilicatis, Pk. t. 208. 1. 





Jack- in-a-Box. 



Flores, in aliis mafculini, in aliis femininL 



Mas. 



Vid* L. Gen. 931. 



Femina. 



Pericarp 



Capful a 



Xpert a inflata, fubrotunda 



lucida, ventrico/d, unilocularis ; ore leniter contraSlo 

 cato, integro. 



fubpel 



An calix pro capful a ft 



Semen. Nux cblongo-ovata, fukata, eretfa, 



pofita unilocularis. Nucleus globofu. 



igofi 



in centro 



xpfula 



This tree is pretty common in Barbadoes and Mountferat, and grows to a confi 



derable fize in thofe ifland 

 been credibly informed 



but I have not feen any in Jamaica, though 



I ha 



that fuftain and partly invelop the nuts are ver^ 



was frequent in the parifh of Portland. The cups 



wind, keep a whittling noife, which is often frightful to unwary 

 feeds are very oily. 



d, as they move 



the 



The 



HERNANDIA 24. 2 d . Arbor ea; capfuld crafa, ligned, ovatd, integrd. 



The Hemattdia, with oval capfi 



I do not know whether 



be a native of the Eajl or Wejl-Ind, 



but I 



have feen a fruit of this form in Mr. Ehrefs collection of feeds, which I mention 

 here, only, to {hew that there is a fecond fpecies of the genus* 



There are two other plants in thofe colonies, that have almoft wholly efcaped 

 my notice j the one is the green withe, which I take to be a fpecies of the Arum, 

 or Epidendrum : the other feems to be a kind of the Nux vomica. The firft of 

 thefe plants is not uncommon in the woods of Jamaica j the other grows in the 

 windward part of Mountferat, in the fide of the great gully, called Kabfs Gully, 

 It is a fmall fhrub, and bears white bloffoms, which are afterwards fucceeded by to 

 many large apples, containing a number of large comprefled feeds difperfed in th* 

 pulp of the fruit: (if I remember) the plant is milky when young. 





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