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ones pale, in the middle deeper, in the lower darker green, with two 

 purple tubercles or glands tOAvards the base, where they are con- 

 nected with the petiole; which is set half an inch from the base of 

 the leaf, three nerves springing from it, two extending each way to 

 the narrow points of the leaf, the other rising upright to the top, 

 where is the greatest length of the leaf: the flowers are on short 

 round peduncles from the axils of the middle and upper leaves, white 

 and of a middle size, about three inches in diameter when expanded: 

 .they arc without scent, open in the evening or during the night, .in 

 ,the month of July, and finally close, about eight or nine o'clock in 

 the morning. It is a native of the West .Indies. 



The thirteenth species has the stem sufFrutescent at bottom, sub- 

 divided, angular, grooved : the leaves semio.vate, three-nerved, veined, 

 smooth on both sides, marked behind longitudinally with pellucid 

 dots: lobes terminated by very small bristles ; the middle one a little 

 larger than the others: the petioles short, without glands: the ten- 

 drils filiform, very long: the stipules two, opposite, awl-shaped: the 

 peduncles axillary, filiform, an inch long: the flowers nodding, pale 

 green, rather large: the berry egg-shaped. It is distinguished from 

 the other sorts b%its rounded leaves slightly three-lobed at top only. 

 It is a native of Jamaica. 



The fourteenth runs to a great height, and has dark -green glossy 

 leaves: the involucrum is composed of three leaves divided into ca- 

 pillary segments, each terminating in a viscid globule: the pillar 

 supporting the germen is bright purple with darker spots: the petals 

 are greenish on the outside, and red within: the crown consists of 

 four rows of radii, which are varied with white and purple. It is a 

 native of Jamaica. 



The fifteenth species rises with a weak stalk to tho height of 

 twenty feel: as the stalks grow old, they have a thick fungous bark 

 like that of the Cork-lree, which cracks and splits : the smaller 

 branches are covered with a smooth bark: the leaves are smooth, 

 on very short petioles: the middle lobe is much longer than the la- 

 teral ones, so that the whole leaf is halbert-shaped: the flowers arc 



