VL Account of a B O O K. 
Cafalogm Flantamm qu^ in infula Jamaica fpon- 
teproz^enmnt ^el ^ulgo colmtur, cum earun^ 
dem fynonymis locis natahbns \ adjeBis 
aliis qmhnfdam qude in infutis Mader^^ Bar- 
bados, Ni€*z/eSj SanBi Ghriftophori naf- 
cuntur^ fen prodromi hiflGri<^. naturalif Janiai« 
€X pars prima. Autore Hzm Sloane M. £>. 
Coll. reg. Med. Lond. nec non Soc. Reg, Load; 
Sac. Londini Impenfts Dan. Brown In« 
fig^^Cygnij Biblioram extra port am ^ulgo 
diSlam Temple-bafj %6p6. in %V with 
feme Remarks on it bv John Kaf^ A, M 
ScF.R.S. 
THE Author of this Catalogue doth not prefen^ 
the Reader with Titles of Plants Collefted out ■ 
of other Mens Writings, or of which he had feeo only 
dryed Specimens, but of fuch as himfelf faw growing in 
their Native Places : Among which there are a great 
Multitude of New and Non-dejcrip Sp^ciQs ; in one 
Genus alone, viz, Thofe called Capi/Iaries, no lefs then 
Threefcore, befides thofe lately Pubiiflied by R Plmier 
in his firft Volume of Defcriptions of American Plants, 
which our Author had obferved and defcribed long be- 
fore that Book came out ; and thefe not fmall and con- 
temptible ones , or hardly diftinguifcable from the 
Plants of that kind already defcribed, but of eminent 
Stature and Beauty ; and fome of them of lb firange 
and exotick Form, that if delineated they could not 
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