Book VII.  Jlandof BARBADOS. 
The RopE-MANGROVE. 
ae is a groveling Tree, feldom rifing above eighteen Feet high : 
The Bark is of a light-ruffet Colour; the Leaves are high-ribbed ; 
their Length about feven, and their Breadth near fix Inches, {upported. 
each by a fix-inch-long Footftalk. The Extremities of the Branches are 
beautifully decorated with large yellow Flowers, very much refembling 
thofe of the Cotton-Flower, except that they want the purple Spot at the 
Bottom. ‘The Petals of this Flower, which are five in Number, are fup- 
ported by a double Row of green capfulat Leaves neatly jagged. The 
Piftil is ftrong, and divides into four knobbed Divifions: From the Side 
of it rife many yellow Stamina, tipped with the fame colour’d farinaceous 
Apices. The Flower is fucceeded by a roundith tharp-pointed Pod, divided 
into five Partitions, inclofing each a black kidney-like Seed.. The moft 
common Method: of cultivating thefe Trees is by cutting the younger 
Branches into many Pieces, and fticking them in the Ground in wet 
Weather. It is called the Rope-Mangrove, from the Ufe that is made of 
the Bark of it to make Ropes or Halters for Cattle. Thefe Trees grow 
moft commonly in low moift Land, near the Water : They flower about 
Fune or Fuly. ry mee ‘ 
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The JuNcTION-VINE. 
alent isa long trailing Vine, bearing a fharp-pointed heart-like Leaf, 
The Flower is monopetalous, very much reprefenting, in its whole 
Shape, the Placenta Uteri. The Labia of the Flower are freckled with 
purple and white Spots. The Root of the Vine is exceeding bitter, and very 
ufeful to make bitter Diet-Drink. The Flowers are fucceeded by a conic 
blackifh Pod, which is very much fulcated on the Outfide, and the Infide 
- divided into partitional Cells, inclofing feveral {mall black Seeds, 
The Picpon-Pea-T'Ree ; Lat. Cytifus. 
TH S grows to about nine Feet high: Its Roots are few, penetrating 
not deep into the Earth. Its main Stalk, or Stem, at about three 
Years Growth, is commonly near as big as a Man’s Wrift. 
I know of no Part of this Shrub but what is of fome Ufe, The 
Wood is good for Fuel; and by the often falling of its numerous Leaves, 
the Land it grows upon is very much enriched ; and its Fruit is of great 
Service, by affording hearty nourifhing Food to Man and Beaft, The 
main Stalk is generally divided into feveral bufhy Branches: Thefe are 
cloathed with long fharp-pointed fmooth Leaves, green above, and 
covered with an hoary Mealinefs underneath: It bears, upon two-inch- 
long Spikes, very many yellow papilionaceous Flowers, ray’d with purple 
Veins, Thefe are fucceeded by Pods of a ruffet Colour, when ripe ; con- 
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