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SEN the Bahama Iflands, thefe 
; Trees grow to about fifteen 
inches in thicknefs, and thirty 
4 or more feet in height, with 
‘M2 a rough brown beck The 
a are like thate of the Pdilkrea, 
growing by pairs. ‘The flowers are plobu- 
lar, compofed of numerous {carlet filaments, 
produced from fmall green capfulas: many 
of the flowers grow together on long foot- 
at the ends of flender branches, 
an elegant appearance. ‘The 
flowers are fuccceded by pods, of a red- 
difh brown colour, containing many flattifh 
round fhining black feeds, ” which, when 
ripe, are difcharged from out of the pods, 
but hang thereto by a fcarlet mucilagi- 
nous, fpongy fubftance, which inclofes a 
third part of every feed. The pods grow 
three or four together, in a wreathed 
or fpiral manner, which nature feems to 
have defigned for difplaying its beauties 
to advantage; for, had the pods been 
ftrait, as thofe of French Beans, thefe 
glittering feeds would have been much 
obfcured. The feeds are food of wild 
pigeons, &7e, 
RES Arbres creiffent dans les 
) iles de Bahama jufques & avoir 
les bees de Ee oP 
plus. Tees écorce cof oe on 
brunc: leurs Gail 5, gui font plackes par 
paires, reffemblent a celles du Phillirea: Les 
fieurs font globutleufes, &P compofées Put 
grand nombre de filets écarlates qui viennent 
de petites capfules vertes: plufieurs de ces 
fieurs naiffent enfemble fur de longs pédicules 
aux extremités des petits branches, ce qué 
forme un fort beau fpectacle: if fur fuccede 
des coffes Pun brun rougedtre, qui contiennent 
plufieurs femences rondes &P applaties, aun 
noir luifant: lors qu’elles Sout mires, les 
coffes les laiffent échaper 3 mats elles y reftent 
pendues par une Subfiance mucilaginenfe, mol 
face & écarlate, qui enferme le ivers de 
chaque graine: les coffes viennent, trois ou 
quatre enfemble, tournées €P Spirales, ce que 
la Nature femble avoir fait pour en mieux 
deployer les beautés; car fi les coffes avotent 
été toutes droites, comme celles des haricots, 
ces graines brillantes wauroient pas fi ee 
Srappé les yeux. Elles fervent de nourriture 
aux pigeons fauvages, bc, 
PAPILIO diurna, prima, omnium maxima. Movffet, p. 8. Raii Hift. Infe&. p.r1t, 
Matnankancis i in M.S. D™ Gualteri Raleigh pewes D. Hans Sloane. 
‘HE body of this Fly is yellow and black, the 
eyes {pherical; it is eight inches from the 
extremity of one upper wing to the other, which are 
except the upper margin of each pair: 
ground of the four wings is of a brimftone colour: 
the anterior margins of the upper wings are verged 
with black, having feveral ftripes o lifts running 
tranfverfely crofs the wings, from which run many 
black lines: the under part of all four wings are 
deeply verged with black, and {potted with yellow 
crefcents: the verges of the lower wings having alfo 
fome round blue {pots 
WeOek. lk 
oe corps de ce Papillon eft oe & noir: fes 
yeux font agate & il y buit pouces de 
Lextremite dune des ailes fipérieures a L extremité 
de l'autre: elles sibs pointues, de méme gue le bas 
des ailes infericures : les bords de toutes les ailes Jont nat 
dentelles, sigs le bord seit de chaque pa pai 
le fond eft de couleur te fouffre : les bords antéricur 
aile 
partent un grand nombre de lignes noires: leur deffous 
a une large bordure noire, & oft tacheté de croiffien ‘ 
jaunes s bordures des ailes inferieures ont au fe 
quelques taches bleues. 
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