o 



R 



G 



A 



N 



I 



C 



B 



O 



D 



I 



E 



S, 



i8i 



the moll: copious, the tcmbeilated, the Syngenejia, the Fapilionacece,.,\h.t 

 Bicornes, the Miquofce, the Ferfonatc^, and the Verticillat^, 



ha\^ very few congeners in the tropical illes ; the beautiful clailes of 



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Enfat^y Corojzr.ricE, Sarmentacecs, are equally rare. The grajfes 

 are not numerous, and are chiefly of the clafs of Polygamia. 



Th 



Piperit^e, Scitaminece, Hefperidece^. Liiridie, Co7itortce, ColumnifertZy 

 and TricocccBy chiefly com^pofe the Flora of thefe ifles. Among the 



Orchidece, a great variety of 



Epidendra 



inhabit the uncultivated 



parts. Moil of them are new, and their flowers fo very various, that 

 they could be diftinguifhed into feveral different genera, v/ith the 

 fame eafe that botanifcs have feparated the Convolvulus and Ipomcea, 



or the NyBanfbes and 'J afmimim , only from flight difl^'erences in the 

 formation of the flower. The fpecies of Convolvuli are very co- 

 pious in the South-Sea ifles, and fo clofely conneded with each 

 other, that it becomes very diflicult. to determine them. 



The 



genus of peppers (piper J has been placed among the diandria by 

 Linnaeus ;- though he has taken the greatefl: part of its fpecies upon 

 the authority of Plumter. We had opportunities of examining 

 many fpecies of it, and.alwaysfound the number of ftamina irregu- 

 lar and indeterminate, and the ihape and number of fligmata dif- 

 ferent in alm.ofl: every fpecies : it is therefore but jufb, that this 

 nus fliould be reflored to the clafs Gyn andria, where it properly 

 belongs, and with which its frudiification perfedly agrees. 



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But, 



allowing 



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