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liiidric.l1 : the berries are very small, and lodged inch and half long, and three quarters of an inch 



ni a ptilpy niatier: like those oi' Black Pepp .t they 

 are iJrst green, and become red when ripe ; they 

 are holt e-i to the taste in the immature state, 

 and are thcretorf gathered whdst green, and dried 

 in the sun, when ihev change to a blackish 

 or dark gray colour. It is a native ot" the East 

 Inilifs. 



Tiie fourth species has a diehotomotis stem. 



broul : the sp'.kes of ilowers come out at the 

 end of the stalks, are slender, about an inch 

 lonsr, and straiiiht : the flowers are very small, 

 and sessile, a[)pear m July, and are succeeded by 

 very small berries, each containing a small 

 seed like dust. It is a native of South Ame- 

 rica. 



The eighth species sends out from the root 

 spotted, attaining the height of a fathom: the many succulent herbaceous stalks almost as large 

 leaves oblong-cordate, not roundish-cordate: as a mati's little finger; they are jointed, and 

 the spikes straigiit, short, solitary, and not ag- divide into many branches, never rising above a 

 gresxaie, long, and nodding. It is a native of foot high, but generally spread near the ground, 

 the islands of the South Seas. putting out roots at each joint, propagate very 



[t has the property of intoxicating when fast, and soon cover a large space of ground : 

 chewed. the leaves are very thick and succulent ; they are 



The (IFtli is a shrub: the stem about five about three inches long and two broad, very 

 feet high, sending out several side branches smooth and entire ; the peduncle comes out at 

 which have protuberant joints : the leaves six the end of the branches ; this is also very suc- 

 inches long and five broad near their base; they culent, and the wdiole length, including the 

 have five veins springing froni the footstalk, the spike, is about seven inches: the _spike is 

 middle one goinfi; in a direct line to the point ; straight, erect, and about the size of a goose- 

 quill, closely covered with small flowers which 

 require a glass to be distinguished ; the whole 

 spike much resembles the tail of a lizard. It is 

 a native of South America, flowering from 



the two side veins diverge towards the edges of 

 the leaves in the middle, but approach again at 

 the top ; the surface of the leaves is full of small 

 veins, which form a sort of net-work : the spikes 



come out from the side of the branches opposite April to September 



to the leaves ; they are slender, and about five 



niddle, and 

 herbaceous 



mches long 

 are closely 



a little bcndins in the middle, and 



set with very small 

 flowers. It is a native of Jamaica. 



The sixth species has the stems several, shrub- 



Ctdture. — All these plants may be increased 

 by seeds, procured fresh from the countries 

 w here the plants grow naturally, which should 

 be sown upon a good "hot-bed in the spring, 

 and when the plants come up and are fit to 



by, round, knobbed at the joints, smooth, an transplant, be each put into a separate small pot 



inch and more in thickness, branched, ash-co- filled with light fresh earth, and replunged into 



loured, upright, eight feet high : the branchlets a hot-bed of tanner's bark, shading them every 



green, the thickness of a quill, spreading very day from the sun till they have taken fresh root, 



much : the leaves alternate, on short jictioles, when they must be treated in the same way as 



in a double row, a little shorter at the inner other tender exotic plants, admitting fresh air to 



base, deep green above, rugged backwards, them dally in proportion to the warmth of the 



rough-haired when examined by a glass; nn- season, to prevent their drawing up weak; and 



derneath pale green, villose but not rugged ; when the nights are cold the glasses of the 



quite entire, netted with numerous veins, many- hot-bed should be covered with mats, 



nerved if the principal veins be considered as They all require the constant protection of a 



nerves ; they are about half a foot in length, and hot-house. 



have little taste or smell : the stipule lanceolate, As the stalks of most of them are tender when 



acute, converging, smooth, striated, caducous : young, they should not have much wet, which 



the peduncles alternate, opposite to a leaf, soli- rots them ; and when water is given it must be 



tary, erect, round, somewhat villose, half an wiih caution, not to beat down the plants ; for 



mch long : the spikes solitary, slender, yellow- w hen that is the case they seldom rise again, af- 



ish, two or three inches in length, towards the terwards. 



origin of the branchlet bowed, so closely co- In some of the sorts they may be raised from 



vered with minute fructifications, that it is scarce- layers or cuttings, 



ly possible to detect their structure even with a In the after-management of the plants, they 



microscope. It is called Spanish Elder in Ja- must be plunged into the tan-bed of the bark- 



maica, where it is a native. stove in the autumn, and during the winter be 



The seventh is annual : the stalks are succu- sparingly watered: they require the same warnuh 



k-«t, seven or eight inches hich : the leaves an as the Coflec-trcc. In the summer a large 



