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cultivated in gardens, and fruit abundantly; they are made into 
pickles. C. and M. — Hab. Tropics. 
518. C. frutescens, Linn. — Long Chili. Several varieties are 
commonly cultivated in gardens, and the fruit is used for pickles. 
C. and M. — Hab. Tropics. 
519. C. baccatum, Linn. — Cayenne Pepper. A few plants culti- 
vated in gardens. — Hab. Tropics. 
Datura, Linn. 
520. D. Metel, Linn.— Downy Datura ; mentioned by Roxburgh 
as growing in the Island. Dot. Mag. 1440. — Hab. Asia, America, &c. 
521. D. Tatula, Linn. — Liglit-blue-flowered Datura. This 
useful plant in asthmatic diseases grows wild and very abundantly 
about Hew Ground and the Island generally. M. Alt. '06 to 2‘4. — 
A common weed in tropical and warm countries. 
522. D. fastuosa, Linn. — Purple Datura ; grows wild and very 
abundantly as a weed about the Island generally. M. Alt. '2 to 4. 
A common weed in the tropics. 
Mellissia, Hk. f. 
523. *M. begonifolia, Hlc. f. ; Physalis hegovifolia, Eoxb. — The 
native Boxwood ; now an extremely rare plant, but still to be found 
growing on the south-eastern side of the Island, at Longrange and 
Stonetop, where it attains to a shrub about eight feet in height. 
The stems are very bent, crooked, and branching, seldom exceeding 
two inches in thickness. The leaves are large when the plant is 
young, but small as it grows older. Its pretty white blossoms appear 
in the month of October, under the leaves so as to be scarcely 
visible without lifting them up. A species of Succinea leeds upon 
the plant. The dry branches are gathered by the natives for firewood. 
C. Alt. 2 to 3. Plate 51 ; also Hk. Icon. Plant. 1021. 
Hicotiana, Linn. 
524. N. tabacum, Linn. — Wild Tobacco ; grows on the rocky 
ground, even on the summit of Lot. C. Alt. '2 to 1. Wild and 
common. The leaves of this plant are sometimes gathered by 
fishermen and labourers, hung up in their chimney-corners to dry, 
and then smoked ; but no systematic curing of it takes place, the 
