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This fort feldom lives more than one 'year in Eng- 
land, .but in its native country will laid two years. It 
is propagated by feeds, which, if fown on a good hot- 
bed in the fpring, and the plants afterward planted 
in pots filled with light earth, and plunged into a frefh 
hot-bed, treating them afterward in the fame way as 
the Amaranthus, they will flower in July, and their 
feeds will ripen in autumn. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in both the Indies 5 
this rifes with an herbaceous fmooth ftalk three or 
four feet high, garni filed with leaves which are di- 
vided into feven fegments almoft to the bottom ; the 
middle fegment being four inches long and half an 
inch broad, the upper lateral fegments about three 
inches long and the fame breadth ; thefe are indented 
at their extremities, but the lower fegments are not 
much more than an inch long, and have foot-ibalks 
four inches long. The flowers are produced from the 
wings of the ftalks toward the top, Handing on ihort 
foot-ftalks ; they are compofed of five large fulphur- 
coloured petals, which, when open, fpread five inches 
wide ; they have a dark purple bottom, with a column 
of {lamina and ftyles rifing in the center, and are 
fucceeded by large, pyramidal, five-cornered, eredl 
feed-veffels, opening in five cells, which are filled with 
pretty large kidney- fliaped feeds, which have little 
fmell or tafte. 
It is propagated by feeds in the fame manner as 
the former fort, and if fo managed, will produce 
flowers and perfect feeds the fame feafon ; but the 
plants may be continued through the winter in a 
moderate warmth, though few perfons are at the 
trouble of preferving the plants after they have ri- 
pened their leeds, becaufe the young plants make a 
better appearance. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies, 
where it rifes with a woody ftalk feven or eight feet 
high, fending out many fide branches toward the top, 
which are covered with a whitifh bark, and garnifhed 
with angular heart-fhaped leaves, which are woolly ; 
they are about four inches long, and three broad to- 
ward their bafe, ending in acute points, and have fe- 
veral longitudinal veins. The flowers are produced 
from the wings of the ftalk upon long foot-ftalks ; 
they are compofed of five roundilh petals, which are 
joined at their bafe, but fpread open above, and are 
of a yellow colour, turning to a red as they decay •, 
thefe are fucceeded by large, obtufe, five-cornered, 
hairy feed-veffels, which open in five cells, filled with 
large kidney-fhaped feeds. 
This is propagated by feeds, which muft be fown 
upon a hot-bed in the fpring, and the plants after- 
ward treated in the fame way as the two laft men- 
tioned, during the firft fummer, but in the autumn 
they muft be plunged into the tan-bed in the ftove, 
where they fhould conftantly remain, and be treated 
in the fame way as other tender plants from the fame 
country, giving them but little water in winter ; the 
fecond year the plants will flower, but they have not 
as yet perfected feeds in England. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in both Indies ; this 
riles with a woody pithy ftem eight or ten feet high, 
dividing into feveral branches toward the top, which 
are covered with a woolly dowm, and garnifhed 
with round heart-fhaped leaves, ending in acute 
points ; they are of a lucid green on their upper fide, 
and hoary on their under, full of large veins, and are 
placed alternately on the ftalks. The flowers are pro- 
duced at the end of the branches in loofe fpikes ; they 
are of a whitifh yellow colour, and are fucceeded by 
ihort acuminated capfules, opening in five cells, filled 
with large kidney-fhaped feeds. 
This fort is propagated in the fame way, and the 
plants require the fame treatment as the fifth, and 
flower the fecond year, provided they are brought 
forward, otherwife they will not flower before the 
third or fourth feafon ; but they will bear the open 
air in fummer, in a warm fituation, though they will 
not make great progrefs there. 
The ferenth fort grows naturally on the coaft of 
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Malabar, from whence I received the plants; this rifes 
with a woody ftalk twelve or fourteen feet high, di- 
viding. into many fmall branches toward the top, which 
are garnished with oval fawed leaves, ending in acute 
points ; they are of a lucid green above, but are. pale 
on their under fide, and are placed without order. 
The flowers come out from the fide of the branches, 
at the wings of the leaves, on pretty long foot-ftalks ; 
they are compofed of many oblong roundifh petals of 
a red colour, which expand like the Rofe, the flowers 
being as large when fully blown, as the common red 
Rofe, and as double. This is a perennial plant, which 
is propagated by cuttings ; and the plants muft con- 
ftantly be kept in the ftove, giving them a iarge fhare 
of air in warm weather, -and but little water in win- 
ter. There is a variety of this with white flowers, but 
I have not feen any of the plants in the Englifh gar- 
dens -, nor have I feen the Angle flowering kind, for 
the inhabitants of India propagate that with double 
flowers by cuttings, which put out roots freely ; this 
they do for the fake of flowers, which the women of 
that country make life of to colour their hair and 
eye-brows black, which will not walh off : the Eng- 
lifh there ufe it for blacking of their fhoes, and from 
thence have titled it Shoe-flower. 
The eighth fort is an annual plant, which rifes with 
an upright ftalk feven or eight feet high ; the lower 
leaves are oval, ferrated, and entire, but the upper 
leaves are divided almoft to the foot-ftalk, into five 
fpear-fhaped fegments, like the fingers of a hand, 
Handing on very long foot-ftalks, which have thorns 
at their bafe, and are fharply fawed on their edges. 
The flowers come out from the wings of the ftaff • 
they are large, of a pale fulphur colour, with a .ark 
purple bottom, and are fucceeded by oval elimi- 
nated, prickly capfules, which open in five .is, filled 
with large kidney-fhaped feeds. 
This fort is propagated by feeds, which muft be fown 
upon a hot-bed, and the plants treated in the fame 
way as the third fort ; and w r hen they are grown too 
tall to ftand under the frames, they muft be placed in 
the ftove, where they will flower in Auguft, and the 
feeds will ripen in autumn. 
The ninth fort is near of kin to the eighth, but the 
ftalks do not grow fo tall ; the lower leaves are heart- 
fhaped and entire, the middle leaves are divided into 
three, and the upper into five fegments, almoft to the 
foot-ftalks ; they are fawed on their edges, and the 
ftalk is prickly. The flowers come out from the 
wings of the ftalks *, they are of a very pale fulphur 
colour, with dark bottoms, but not fo large as thofc 
of the laft. 
This is propagated by feeds in the fame way as the 
eighth, and the plants require the fame treatment. 
It flowers in July and Auguft, and the feeds ripen in 
autumn. 
The bark of both thefe plants is full of ftrong fibres, 
which I have been informed the inhabitants of the 
Malabar coaft prepare and make into a ftrong cord- 
age; and by what I have obferved, it may be wrought 
into fine ftrong thread of any fize, if properly manu- 
factured. 
The tenth fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies, 
where the inhabitants ufe the green pods to add an 
acid tafte to their viands : there are two varieties of 
this, one with a light green, and the other a deep red 
pod, which always maintain their difference -, but as 
there is no other difference but that of the colour of 
their pods, they do not deferve feparate titles. This 
rifes with an herbaceous ftem about three feet high, 
fending out feveral lateral branches, which are gar- 
nifhed with fmooth leaves divided into five lobes. 
The flowers come out from the fide of the branches ; 
they are of a dirty white, with dark purple bot- 
toms, and are fucceeded by obtufe feed-veffels, di- 
vided into five cells, which are filled with kidney- 
fhaped feeds. 
This fort is propagated in the fame way as the third, 
and will flower and perfect feeds the fame year, fo is 
feldom preferved longer in England. 
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