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i The third Sort grows to the 

 Height of twenty Feet, with a large 

 Tronic, covered with a ruffet fmooth 

 Bark : the Leaves of this Tree are 

 very large, of a light-green Colour 

 cn their Upper-fide, but white un- 

 derneath : tnefe are placed by Pairs 

 on the Branches, and make a beau- 

 tiful Appearance when the Trees are 

 viewed at a Diitance. 



The fourth Sort feldom grows 

 more than eight or ten Feet nigh : 

 the Leaves are about four Inches 

 long, having three Veins running 

 the whole Length : the Under-fide 

 of them are of a Gold-colour, and 

 fcnooth : thefe are placed by Pairs 

 on ths Branches. 



The fifth Sort feldom rifes above 

 four Feet high ; the Stalks are an- 

 gular, and covered with a rulfct 

 Down : the Leaves have alfo the 

 fame Down growing on their Un- 

 der -fide : thefe are placed by Pairs 

 on the Branches. 



The fixth Sort grows to the 

 Height of twenty Feet or more, with 

 a flrait Trunk : the Leaves are very 

 large, and of a beautiful Silver-co- 

 lour on their Under-fide : thefe are 

 placed by Pairs on the Branches: the 

 Flowers ccme out at the Extremity 

 of the Branches, in form of an Um- 

 bel : thefe are not larger than a 

 fmall Nut, and of a bluiih Colour. 



The feventh Sort grows about ten 

 or twelve Feet high; the Branches, 

 Stem, and Leaves, being covered 

 with a rufTet Lanugo or Down : thefe 

 Leaves are about three Inches long, 

 and one and an half broad ; having 

 five 'veins running the Length of 

 the Leaves : the Fruit of this is 

 produced in Whorles round the 

 Branches. 



All thefe Plants are efteemed by 

 thofe who are curious, for the An- 

 gular Beauty of their Leaves; which 

 make a fine Appearance, when 



viewed growing on the Plants : fom 

 of thefe Leaves are fourteen Inche 

 long, and upward of four Inche 

 broad ; and molt of them are eithe: 

 white, rulTet, or yellow, c» theii 

 Under-fide ; fo that the dirferen; 

 Colours of the two Sides of tht 

 Leaves make an agreeable Variety. 

 There are many more Sorts of thk 

 Tree than I have here enumerated, 

 which have been difcovered by fome 

 curious Perfons ,in the Spanijh Weft- 

 Indies ; from whence I have receiv- 

 ed dried Samples : but as many of 

 them were gathered imperfect, and 

 not well preferved, they are not 

 very diliinguimable, 



There are very few of thefe Plants 

 at prefent in any of the European 

 Gardens ; which may have been 

 occafioned by theDifficuIty of bring- 

 ing over growing Plants from the 

 Weft -Indies : and the Seeds, being 

 fmall when they are taken out of 

 the Pulp, foon become dry ; fo never 

 fucceed : the belt way to obtain 

 thefe Plants is, to have the intire 

 Fruits put up in dry Sand, as foon 

 as they are ripe, and forwarded by 

 the fooneft Conveyance to England : 

 thefe fhould be immediately takeri 

 out when they arrive, and the Seeds 

 fown in Pots of light Earth, and 

 plunged into a moderate Hot-bed of 

 Tanners Bark. When the Plants 

 come up, and are fit to remove, thejr 

 muft be each planted into a fmall 

 Pot cf light Earth, and plunged into, 

 the Tan -bed ; and may afterward 

 be treated in the manner directed 

 for the Guanabanas ; to which I 

 mall defire the Reader to turn, to 

 avoid Repetition. 



MELIANTHUS, Honey flow- 

 er. 



The CharaBtrs are ; 

 It hath a perennial Rett, and the 

 Jppearance of a Shrub : the leaves 

 are like thefe cf Eur nit : the Cup- of 



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