Book VIII Slandof BARBADOS. 
The Woov-SorréE1. 
ere differs very little, if any thing, from the fame Speciés that 
grows in England: And its Virtue in Ptifans or Sallad is equally 
the fame. 
The JALLop, or the Four-o’CLock-Fiower; Lat. Jallapa. 
TH IS fhrubby Plant grows to be about four Feet high, and is divided 
into numerous Branches, as well as by the different Colours of its 
Flowers diftinguifhed into feveral Sorts. However, the Root of that, which 
bears a brown yellowith Flower, comes neareft in phyfical Goodnefs to the 
true Jallop. Its Leaves are winged, and the Flowers of the tubular mio- 
nopetalous Kind, whofe Ore are divided into five Seftions. "The Srhminag 
are tipped with five pices of a {carlet Colour. Thefe Flowers, though 
diftinguifhed into the Purple, the Red, and the Yellow already defcribed, 
have all their Footftalks covered over with foft Vii or Hair ; and the 
Blofloms of each Kind are fucceeded by fmall Capfule, containing in 
each a fmall black, hufky Seed, ‘inclofing a white Kernel. 
I fhould have added before, that the Leaves are fharp-pointed, and 
above two Inches long, and an Inch and an half broad. The Flower ex= 
pands early in the Morning, and generally continues open till Eight 
oClock ; and then fhuts, and feems almoft wither’d, till about Four in 
_ the Afternoon ; at which Time it blows anew, and continues open till 
Night. 
The CraB-TREE. 
HIS tall Shrub hath a dark-colour’d reddith Bark. ‘The Branches 
are many and crooked. The Leaves, which are generally in Pairs; - 
are likewife unequal and ragged ; the largeft not exceeding two Inches 
long, and the {malleft not an Inch. The Branches are guarded with very 
{mall f{carce-perceptible Prickles. The Flowers are of the papilionaceous 
Kind, and fucceeded by many fmall Pods. 
The INDIGO-WEED. 
iB the Infancy of Trade in this Ifand, Indigo, which is produced 
from this Weed, was one of its ftaple Commodities: But as the Im- 
provement of Sugar became more beneficial, or rather, when our Neigh= 
bours the French, by their feveral Indulgences in Trade, as well as’ the 
cheap Purchafe of their Land, were able to underfell us at foreign. 
Markets, this Branch of Trade was fo intirely fwallowed up by them, 
that we have had no Indigo manufa@ured here for above forty Years paft: 
Therefore it would be needlefs in me either to defcribe the Plant, if I 
Ff could 
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