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the flowers appear. The petals are white, the stamina long 

 and red. The fruit ripens in June ; they are of the bulk of a 

 crab-apple, and relished by some people. 



The leaves, beaten up into a mass, are useful as stimulating 

 cataplasms, in fevers, with stupor and delirium. 



78. Triumfetta rhombeafolia, Sw. — Paroquet Bur. 



This delights in sunny situations by the road-side, and in 

 open pastures. It grows to five or six feet high. The leaves 

 are broad, soft, and of a lively green colour. The trunk and 

 branches are brown ; the blossoms small, yellow, and nume- 

 rous, are succeeded by many red burs, which, when ripe, 

 stick to one's clothes, and mat the manes of horses. 



The bark, soaked for eight or ten days in fair water, 

 then washed and dried, makes a white strong hemp. Some 

 time or other this may be one of the staple articles of this 

 and other West India settlements. 



This hemp might be manufactured at a small expence, es- 

 pecially where rivers are near, and would amply repay the 

 manufacturer for his care and ingenuity. 



79- Triumfetta. — Paroquet Bur, with Small Leaves. 



The leaves of this species are very small and numerous. The 

 trunk is grey, smooth and straight, but does not rise so high 

 as the preceding. In other respects the flowers, bur and 

 hemp, differ little or nothing. 



The green paroquet feeds on the ripe burs of this and the 

 other two species of the plant. 



