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rifes in a few years to a great height, if they have 
proper fupport. I have feen fome of thefe plants, 
whofe branches were trained up more than forty feet 
high. The ftalks will grow almod as large as a 
man’s arm, and are covered with apurplifh bark, but 
do not become very woody. The fhoots from thefe 
ftalks are often twelve or fifteen feet long in one dim- 
mer •, they are very (lender, fo mull be fupported, 
otherwife they will hang to the ground, intermix with 
each other, and appear very unfigntly. Thefe are 
garnifhed at each joint with one hand-fhaped leaf, 
compofed of five fmooth entire lobes, the middle one, 
which is the longed, being al mod four inches long, 
and one broad in the middle, the other are gradually 
Ifiorter, and the two outer lobes are frequently divid- 
ed on their outer fide into two fmaller lobes or feg- 
ments. Their foot-dalks are near two inches long, 
and have two fmall leaves or ears embracing the dalks 
at their bale, and from the fame point comes out a 
long clafper, which twifts round the neighbouring 
plants, whereby the dalks are fupported. The flow- 
ers come out at the fame joint as the leaves * thefe 
have foot-dalks almod three inches long. The 
flowers have an outer cover, compofed of three con- 
cave oval leaves, of a paler green than the leaves of 
the plant, which are little more than half the length 
of the empalement, which is compofed of five oblong 
blunt leaves, of a very pale green * within thefe are 
five petals, nearly of the fame lhape and fize with the 
empalement, danding alternately between them. In 
the center of the flower arifes a thick club-like co- 
lumn about an inch long, on the top of which fits an 
oval germen, from whole bafe fpreads out five awl- 
fhaped horizontal flamina, which are terminated by 
oblong broad fummits fadened in the middle of the 
ftamina, hanging downward * thefe may be moved 
round without leparating from the damina, and their 
under furface is charged with yellow farina * on the 
fide of the germen arife three (lender purplilh dyles 
near an inch long, fpreading from each other, termi- 
nated by obtufe digmas. Round the bottom of the 
column are two orders of rays * the inner, which is 
the (horted, inclines toward the column the outer, 
which is near half the length of the petals, fpread 
open flat upon them * thefe rays are compofed of a 
great number of thread-like filaments, of a purple co- 
lour at bottom, but are blue on the outfide. The 
flowers have a faint fcent, and continue but one day •, 
after they fade, the germen on the top of the co- 
lumn fwelis to a large oval fruit about the -fize and 
lhape of the Mogul Plum, and when ripe is of the 
fame pale yellow colour, inclofing a fweetifh difagree- 
able pulp, in which are lodged oblong feeds. This 
plant begins to flower early in July, and there is a 
iucceffion of flowers daily, till the frod in autumn puts 
a dop to them. 
It may be propagated by feeds, which fhould be fown 
in the fame manner as thofe of the firil fort, and the 
plants treated in the fame way till the following fpring, 
when they fhould be turned out of the pots, and 
planted againd a good afpecded wall, where they may 
have height for their (hoots to extend, otherwife they 
will hang about and entangle with each other, fo 
make but an indifferent appearance * but where build- 
ings are to be covered, this plant is very proper for 
the. purpofe. After they have taken good root in 
their new quarters, the only care they will require, is 
to train their (hoots up againd the wall, as they ex- 
tend in length, to prevent their hanging about, and 
if the winter proves fevere, the furface of the ground 
about their roots (hould be covered with mulch to 
keep the frod from penetrating of the ground •, and if 
the (talks and branches are covered with mats, Peas- 
hauitn, draw, or any fuch light covering, it will 
protect them in winter againd fevere frods * but this 
covering mud be taken oft in mild weather, otherwife 
it will caufe the branches to grow mouldy, which will 
be more injurious to them than the cold. In the 
fpring the plants (hould be trimmed, when all the 
fmall weak fhoots (hould be entirely cut off, and the 
ftrong ones (hortened to about four or five feet long. 
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which will caufe them to put out ftrong (hoots for 
flowering the following year. 
This plant is alfo propagated by laying down the 
branches, which in one year will be well rooted, fo 
may be taken off from the old plants, and tranlplant- 
ed, where they are defigned to remain. The cut- 
tings of this will alfo take root, if they are planted 
in a loamy foil not too ftiff, in the fpring, before they 
begin to (hoot. If thefe are covered with bell or 
hand-glaffes to exclude the air, they will fucceed much 
better than when they are otherwife treated * but when, 
the cuttings put out fhoots, the air (hould be admit- 
ted to them, otherwife they will draw up weak and 
fpoil, and they mud be afterwards treated as the layers. 
Thofe plants which are propagated by layers or cut- 
tings, do not produce fruit fo plentifully as the feed- 
ling plants * and I have found the plants which have 
been propagated two or three times, either by layers 
or cuttings, feldom produce fruit, which is common 
to many other plantsq 
If in very fevere winters the dalks of thefe plants are 
killed to the ground, the roots often put out new 
ftalks the following dimmer, therefore they fhould not 
be didurbed * and where there is mulch laid on the 
ground about their roots* there will be little danger 
of their being killed, although all the dalks (hould be 
dedroyed. 
There is a variety of this * the lobes of the leaves are 
much narrower, and are divided almod to the bottom. 
The flowers come later in the dimmer ; the petals of 
the flowers are narrower, and of a purer white, but I 
believe it is' only a ieminal variation of the other, fo 
not worthy of being enumerated. 
The third fort grows naturally in Virginia, and alfo 
in Jamaica* this hath a perennial creeping root, 
fending up many weak dalks about three or four feet 
high, which are garnifhed with leaves (haped very 
like thofe of Ivy, and are almod as large, but of a 
pale green and very thin confidence. The flowers 
come out from the wings of the ftalk upon (lender 
foot-dalks an inch and a half long, and at their bafe 
arife very (lender tendrils, which clafp round any 
neighbouring fupport. The flowers are of a dirty 
yellow colour, and not larger than a fix-pence when 
expanded, fo make no great appearance* This may 
be propagated by its creeping roots, which may be 
parted in April, and planted where they are to remain. 
This fort will live in a warm border, if treated in the 
fame way as is di redded for the firft fort. Some of thefe 
plants lived many years in the Chelfea Garden in a 
border to a fouth-weft afpect, but in the year 1740 
they were killed by the frod. 
The fourth fort grows naturally in Jamaica * this hath 
a perennial root, from which arife feveral (lender 
ftalks four or five feet high, which have joints four 
or five inches afunder * at each of thefe come out one 
leaf, a tendril, and a flower. The leaves have three 
lobes ; the middle one is three inches long, and almod 
an inch broad in the middle •, the two fide lobes are 
about two inches long, and three quarters of an inch 
broad, of a light green colour, and thin. The flowers 
are fmaller than thofe of the lad mentioned, and are 
of a greenifh colour* thefe are fucceeded by oval 
fruit, about the fize of fmall Olives, which turn pur- 
ple when they are ripe. 
The fifth fort grows naturally in mod of the Wed- 
India iflands * this rifes with a weak ftalk to the height 
of twenty feet. As the ftalks grow old, they have 
a thick fungous bark like that of the Cork-tree, 
which cracks and fplits. The fmaller branches are 
covered with a fmooth bark, and garnilhed with 
fmooth leaves at each joint, fitting upon very fhort 
foot-dalks * thefe have three lobes, the middle one 
being much longer than thofe on the (ides, fo that 
the whole leaf has the form of the point of thofe hal- 
berts ufed by the yeomen of the guards. The flow- 
ers are fmall, of a greenifti yellow colour, and are 
fucceeded by fmall oval fruit of a dark purple co- 
lour when ripe. 
The fixth fort grows naturally in the Weft-Indies * 
this hath a perennial root, from which arife feveral 
(lender 
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