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PLUMERIA Flore rofeo odoratiffimo, 'Tournef. Inft, 
HESE Trees rife ufually to 
the height of about fourteen 
or fixteen feet, with a trunk 
ee or ie inches thick, from which fhoot 
irregularly its branches, which are large 
and fucculent ; on the top of which are 
The leaves 
grow many of them together; they are 
placed the leaves and flowers. 
about feven or eight inches in length, and 
two or three broad, of a fhining green, 
The flowers are tubulous, and are divided 
into five fegments; they are of a rofe 
The feeds are 
contained in a double pod, like the reft 
colour, and very fragrant. 
of the Neriums. This elegant Plant was 
at firft introduced from the continent of 
America to Barbadoes, and other of our 
Sugar Iflands, where it is planted in gar- 
dens, and in great efteem for its odour and 
ornament. 
ee ment depuis quatorze julqu?? 
a alee J4fy 
as 
Een feize pies de hauteur, avec un 
oe $F He ou fix pouces de diametre: Tes 
branches en naiffent irrégulierement: elles 
Jont groffes °F pleines de fuc: les feuilles 
E&P Les fleurs font placées a leurs extré. 
mites: tes fewilles croiffent plufieurs enfem- 
ble, ont environ fept ou huit pouces de 
long, &F deux ou trois de large, & font 
Pun verd clair: les fleurs font tubuléufes 
&> divifées en cing fegmens: elles font de 
couleur de rofe, &P fort odorantes: Jes 
Semences font contenues dans une double 
coffe, comme celle des autres lauriers-rofes, 
Cette belle Plante fut d’abord aportée du 
continent de 1 Amérique aux Barbades, &P? 
dans quelques autres de nos iles Antilles, ot 
on la cultive dans les jardins, &P o% on 
‘iftime beaucoup & caufe de fa beauté P 
de fa boune odeur. 
