Book VI. land of BARBADOS. 
; The GRANADILLA-VINE. 
‘THIS is the Granadilla latifolia fruétu maliformi of Father Piu- 
j migR. The Stalk of this Vine is quadrangular, bordered upon every 
_ Angle: Its Clafpers, or Tendrils, by which it fupports itfelf, are very nu- 
_ merous, as well as the Leaves many ; thefe are fix Inches long, and fivein 
Breadth, ftanding upon four-corner’d Footftalks, The Flowers are of 
_ the fame Make with the Pafflion-Flower. The Fruit is of a long oval 
_ Shape,of a yellowifh Green when Tipe ; Containing a great Number 
_ of fmall Seeds or Acimi, covered with a gelly-like Juice, or fweetifh Pulp. 
_ This Vine grows beft in fhady Places, and muft be fupported with an 
_ Arbour. — . gy es : oe 
The Fic-T'REE. a 
A &S neither this Tree, nor its Fruit the eatable Fig, differ from that 
4 of the fame Species in England and elfewhere, it will be need- 
 lefs to give it a particular Defcription. 
Here ends the Pruniferows Kind of Fruit. 
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