-6o Dr. Bruce’s Account, &c. 
could not be diftinguilhed, either by its appearance or moving 
power, from thofe on which no experiment had been made. 
The leaves move very fail from the electrical Ihock, even 
although a very gentle one ; but the fhte of the atmofphere 
was fo unfavourable for experiments of this kind, that I could 
not purfue them fo far as 1 wifhed. 
There are two other plants mentioned as fpecies of this 
o-enus by Linnaeus. The firft, the Averrhoa Bilimbi, I have 
not had an opportunity of feeing. The other, or Averrhoa 
Acida, does not feem to belong to the fame clafs ; nor do its 
leaves poffefs any of the moving properties of the Carambola. 
Li nnjeus’s generic defcription of the Averrhoa, as of many 
other plants in this country which he had not an opportunity of 
feeing frefh, is not altogether accurate. The petals are con” 
Defied by the lower part of the lamina, and in this way they 
fall off whilft the ungues are quite diftinCl. The ffamina are 
in five pairs, placed in the angles of the germem Of each, 
pair only one ftamen is fertile, or furnifhed with an anthera. 
The filaments are curved, adapted to the fhape of the germen. 
They may be preffed down gently, fo as to remain ; and then, 
when moved a little upwards, rife with a fpring. The fertile 
are twice the length of thofe deflitute of antherae. 
Calaitta., Nov. 23, 17S3. 
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