for transplanting •, then they fhould be carefully taken 
out of the feed -pots, fo as to preferve their roots as 
entire as poffible, and each planted in feparate fmall 
pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a new 
hot-bed of tanners bark, where they muft be fhaded 
from the fun till they have taken frefn root •, then they 
muft be treated in the fame manner as other tender 
exotic plants from warm countries, admitting a large 
ifi are of free air to them when the weather is warm : 
they will require to be frequently refrefhed with water 
in warm weather, but it muft be given them with cau- 
tion, for too much wet will infallibly deftroy them. 
While the plants are young, they may be kept during 
the fummer feafon in a hot- bed of tanners bark un- 
der a frame ; but in the ' autumn they muft be re- 
moved into the bark-ftove, and plunged into the hot- 
bed of tan, where they fhould conftantly remain, and 
muft be treated in the fame manner as other tender 
plants, being careful not to give them too much wa- 
ter in the winter, when it is very prejudicial to them, 
and in fummer they fhould have a large ftiare of free 
air admitted to them every day. With this treatment 
the plants will thrive very well, but they are plants of 
flow growth in their own country, fo cannot be ex- 
pedted to make great progrefs in Europe. 
The fecond fort has many fmall leaves placed along 
the midrib by pairs, which are rounded and obtule 
at their ends, but narrow at their bafe : they are of 
the fame confidence with thofe of the former fort, 
but of a darker green colour ; the flowers are pro- 
duced in loofe bunches toward the end of the 
branches, which are of a fine blue colour, and their 
petals are fringed on their edges. This is called in 
fome of the iflands Baftard Lignum Vitae ; I received 
it from Antigua by that title. It requires the fame 
treatment as the firft fort, and is propagated by feeds 
in the fame way. 
I have alfo received fpecimens from the ifland of 
Barbuda of one, which feems different from either of 
thofe before-mentioned : the branches have the fame 
appearance with thofe of the firft fort, but the leaves 
are larger and indented at their extremities, and are 
placed all round the branches, on very fhort foot- 
ftalks •, the flowers were broken off, fo I cannot de- 
termine the difference between them, but by all ap- 
pearance they leem to be of the fame genus. 
The third fort has been long an inhabitant in fome 
of the curious gardens in England and Holland, but 
feldom produces flowers in Europe. This grows na- 
turally at the Cape of Good Hope, from whence the 
feeds were brought firft to Holland, where it paffed 
for a fpecies of Acacia, until it produced its flowers •, 
which, by the account given of them by the late Dr. 
Boerhaave, were of the butterfly kind; but whether 
Dr. Linnmus has feen the flowers or not, I cannot fay ; 
however, he has removed it from that clafs of plants, 
and has added it to this genus ; and as I have not yet 
feen the flowers, fo I do not know if it is rightly placed. 
The plants retain their leaves all the year, and will live 
in a good green-houfe in winter, but in fummer muft 
be placed abroad with other green-houfe plants. It is 
of flow growth, and is with difficulty propagated by 
layers. 
GUAJAVA. See Psidium. 
GUANABANUS. See Annona. 
GUAZUMA. See Theobroma. 
GUIDONIA. See Samvda. 
GUILikNDINA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 464. Bonduc. 
Plum. Nov. Gen. 25. tab. 39. The Nickar-tree. 
The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower is of one leaf is bell-fhaped , 
and, cut at the top into five equal fegments : the flower 
has five concave fpear-fhaped petals which are equal , and 
fit clofe to the empalement , into which they are inferted. 
It hath ten awl -flo aped ftamina which are ere hi , and in- 
ferted in the empalement , being alternately fhorter than 
each other , and terminated by obtufe fummits. In the 
center is fituated an oblong germen , fupporting a flender 
jlyle the length of the ftamina , crowned by a fingle ftig- 
ma . The germen afterward becomes a rhomboid pod n with 
a convex future on the upper fide it is /welling and com - 
preffedj having one cell including oval hard feeds , which 
are fepar at ed by partitions. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feblion of 
Linnaeus’s tenth clafs, in v/hich he includes the plants 
whole flowers have ten ftamina and one ftyie. 
The Species are, 
1. Guilandina ( Bonduc ) acukata pinnis ovatis foliolis 
aculeis folitariis. Lin. Sp. 545. Prickly Guilandina with 
oval-winged leaves , whofe fmall leaves are armed with 
fingle fpines. Bonduc vuigare majus polyphyllum. 
Plum. Nov. Gen. 25. Common greater Bonduc , having 
many leaves , called yellow Nickar. 
2. Guilandina ( Bonducella ) aculeata, pinnis oblongo- 
ovatis foliolis aculeis geminis. Lin. Sp. 545. Prickly 
Guilandina with oblong oval leaves , having fpines by pairs . 
Bonduc vuigare minus polyphyllum. Plum. Nov. 
Gen. 2 5. Smaller common Bonduc , or Nickar-tree having 
many leaves , called gray Nickar. 
3. Guilandina ( Glabra ) inermis folks bipinnatis, foli- 
olis ovatis acutis alternis. Smooth Guilandina with dou- 
ble winged leaves , whofe fmall leaves are oval-pointed and 
alternate. 
4. Guilandina ( Moringa ) inermis, foliis fubpinnatis, 
foliolis inferioribus ternatis. Flor. Zeyl. 155. Smooth 
Guilandina^ with winged leaves , whofe under fmall leaves 
are trifoliate. Moringa Zeylanica, foliorum pinnis 
pinnatis, flore majore, fruftu angulofo. Burm. Zeyl. 
162. tab. 75. Morunga of Ceylon^ with double-winged 
leaves , a larger flower , and an angular fruit. 
5. Guilandina fDioica ) inermis foliis bipinnatis bail 
apieeque fimpliciter pinnatis. Lin. Sp. 546. Guilandina 
with flmooth branches , doubly winged leaves , whofe bafe 
and tops are fingle winged. Bonduc Canadenfe poly- 
phyllum, non fpinofum, mas &fcemina. DuLIamel. 
Canada Nickar-tree having many leaves , which have no 
fpines , and are male and female in different plants. 
The firft and fecond forts grow naturally in moft of 
the iflands in the Weft-Indies, where they twine their 
ftalks about any neighbouring fupport, and rife to the 
height of twelve or fourteen feet. The leaves of the 
firft fort are near a foot and a half long, and are 
compofed of fix or fev^n pair of pinnae, or wings, 
each of which has as many pair of lobes, or fmall 
leaves fet along the midrib ; thefe are oval and en- 
tire ; the foot-ftalk or principal midrib of the leaf, 
is armed witff fhort, crooked, fingle thorns, which are 
placed irregularly ; the ftalks are clofely armed with, 
the like thorns, which are larger. The ftalks at firft 
grow erefl, but afterward they twine about the neigh- 
bouring trees or ffirubs, being too weak to ftand with- 
out fupport : the flowers come out in long fpikes 
from the wings of the ftalk •, they are compofed of 
five concave yellow petals, which are equal ; in the 
center is fituated the oblong germen, furrounded by 
ten ftamina. After the flower is paft, the germen 
becomes a broad thick pod, about three inches long 
and two broad, clofely armed with flender fpines, 
opening with two valves, each incloflngtwo hard feeds 
about the flze of children’s marbles, of a yellowifti 
colour. 
The fecond fort differs from the firft, in having 
much fmaller leaves, which are fet clofe together ; and 
below each pair of lobes are fituated two fhort ftiff 
crooked fpines, which are placed oppoflte ; the flow- 
ers are of a deeper yellow colour than thofe of the firft 
fort, and the feeds are of an Afti-colour. 
• The third fort was difeovered by the late Dr. Hou- 
ftoun at Campeachy, from whence he fent the dried 
famples to England, but there was no fruit on the 
trees at the time when he was there ; but he mentions 
that this fort had an upright ftem, which was of a large 
flze, dividing into many branches ; thefe are garnifhed 
with double winged leaves, which are fmooth the 
wings come out altenrnate, each leaf being compofed 
of four pair, but the lobes are placed oppoflte upon 
the middle rib ; they are oval, but end in a point, 
and are of a light green colour. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in the ifland of 
Ceylon, and in feveral places on the Malabar eoaft, 
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