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.and Continue longer; for when their leaves and 
branches are replete with moifture, they are very apt 
to rot in the winter, fo are feldom of long duration ; 
but where the plants have grown from the joints of 
old walls, I have known them continue in vigour fe- 
ver al years. 
The tenth fort grows naturally in the Canary Illands, 
from whence it was firft brought to England, where 
it has been long an inhabitant in fome curious gar- 
dens. It has been frequently called by the gardeners 
Pellitory of Spain, from the very warm tafte which it 
hath, much refembling the talte of that plant. 
This riles with a fhrubby ftalk near two feet high, 
dividing into many branches, garnilhed with pretty 
thick fucculent leaves, of a grayilh colour, cut into 
many narrow fegments, which are divided into three 
parts at their extremity. The flowers come out from 
the wings of the leaves. Handing upon naked foot- 
ftalks fingly, which greatly refemble thofe of the 
common Chamomile ; there is a fucceffion of flowers 
upon the fame plants great part of the year, for which 
it is chiefly efteemed. This plant will perfect feeds 
in England, when the feafons are favourable ; but as 
the cuttings of it take root fo eaflly, if planted dur- 
ing any of the fummer months, the feeds are rarely 
fown. 
As this plant is a native of warm countries, it will 
not live in the open air in England during the winter 
feafon ; therefore when the cuttings have made good 
roots, diey fhould be each planted into a feparate pot, 
and placed in the fhade till they have taken frefh 
root ; then they may be removed to a fheltered fitua- 
tion, where they may remain till autumn, at which 
time they muft be removed into the green-houfe to 
proteft them from froft ; but in mild weather they 
fhould have plenty of free air, and, during the win- 
ter, they fhould be frequently refrefhed with water, 
but it muft not be given them in too great plenty. In 
fummer they will require more moifture, and fhould 
be treated in the fame manner as other hardier kinds 
of exotic plants. 
The eleventh fort grows naturally at the Cape of 
Good Hope, from whence the feeds were brought 
many years paft to Holland, where the plants were 
firft raifed, and from thence all the other parts of 
Europe have been fupplied with this plant. It riles 
with a fhrubby ftalk about two feet high, which di- 
vides into many (lender branches upward, garnilhed 
with oblong leaves, much indented on their edges, 
each indenture terminating in a foft fpine ; thefe are 
of a pale green, fet clofe to the branches. The flow- 
ers are produced on fhort foot-ftalks from the wings 
of the leaves, toward the upper part of the branches ; 
thefe are globular, and formed of a great number of 
hermaphrodite florets, which are tubular and even, 
having no rays, fo are naked, and of a deep yellow 
colour. The flowers appear in June, and continue 
in fucceflion till the froft flops them. This may 
be propagated by cuttings in the fame manner as the 
laft, and the plants fhould be treated in the fame way. 
The twelfth fort grows naturally about Madrid : this 
hath a low fhrubby ftalk, which feldom rifes a foot 
high, putting out feveral (lender ligneous branches, 
garnifhed with narrow, pale, green leaves ; thofe on 
the lower part of the branches are indented at their 
extremity in feveral parts, but the upper leaves are 
entire ; from the end of each branch is produced a 
naked foot-ftalk fix inches long, fuftaining one ra- 
diated flower, of a fulphur colour. The flowers 
come out in June and July, but there is feldom any 
feeds ripened in England ; this fort muft be fheltered 
under a common frame in winter, for unlefs the win- 
ter proves very favourable, the plants will not live in 
the open air here. It may be propagated by cuttings 
in fummer,- as the two laft forts, but thefe cuttings 
do not 1b readily take root as thofe do. 
CHRYSOB AL ANUS. Lin. Gen. Plant. 585. 
Icaco. Plum. Nov. Gen. 44. Cocoa Plumb. 
The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower is of one leaf \ divided into 
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five parts, almofi to the middle. The flower hath five 
petals , which fpread open , and ten Jlamina , five of which 
are longer than the petals ; the other are floor ter, and are 
terminated by heart-fhaped fummits. In the center is fitu- 
ated an oval germen, fupporting a trifid fhort ftyle, crowned 
by obtufe Jligmas. The germen afterward becomes an 
oval flefhy berry , inclofing a nut with five longitudinal 
furrows. 
This genus of plants' is ranged in the firft fedlion of 
Linnaeus’s thirteenth clafs, intitled Polyandria Mo- 
nogynia ; but it would be more properly placed in 
the third fedlion of his tenth clafs, for the flowers 
have ten (lamina and three ftyles. 
The Species are, 
I- Chrysobalanus {Icaco) folks ovatis, emarginatis, 
floribus racemofis, caule fruticofo. Chryfobalanus with 
oval indented leaves, flowers growing in bunches , and a 
fhrubby ftalk. Frutex Cotini fere folio craffo, in fum- 
mitate deliquium patiente, frudtu ovali caeruleo offi- 
culum angulofum continente. Catefb. Car. The Cocoa 
Plumb. 
2. Chrysobalanus ( Purpurea ) folks decompofttis, fo- 
liolis ovatis integerrimis. Chryfobalanus with decom- 
pounded leaves . whofe lobes are oval and entire. Icaco 
fructu purpureo. Plum. Nov. Gen. 44. Icaco with 
purple fruit. 
The firft fort grows naturally in the Bahama Ifiands, 
and in many other parts of America, but commonly 
near the fea. It rifes with a fhrubby ftalk about 
eight or ten feet high, fending out feveral fide 
branches, covered with a dark brown bark, (potted 
with white ; thefe are garnifhed with oval (tiff leaves, 
which are indented at the end, in form of a heart, 
placed alternately on the branches. From the 
wings of the leaves, and alfo at the divifion of the 
branches, the flowers are produced, which grow in 
loofe bunches ; thefe are fmall and white, having 
many ftamina in each, which are joined to the petals 
of the flowers, terminated by yellow fummits. The 
flowers are fucceeded by oval Plumbs about the fize 
of Damfons ; fome of thefe are blue, fome red, and 
others yellow ; they have a fweet lufcious tafte. The 
Spaniards in the ifland of Cuba, make a conferve of 
thefe fruits. The ftone of the Plumb is fhaped like 
a Pear, and hath five longitudinal ridges on it. This 
grows naturally on moift land. 
The feeds of the fecond fort were fent me from Ja- 
maica, with Plumier’s title ; the ftones were exadlly 
the fame fhape of thofe of the former, but the plants 
have leaves compounded of feveral winged lobes, 
which are branched out oppofite, each having fix or 
feven pair of pinnae (or lobes.) This fort hath not 
flowered in England, fo I can give no farther account 
of it. 
As thefe trees are natives of the warm parts of 
America, fo they will not thrive in England, unlefs 
they are kept in a warm Hove. They are propagated 
by feeds, which muft be obtained from the countries 
where the plants naturally grow ; thefe muft be fown 
in the fpring in fmall pots filled with light earth, and 
plunged into a hot bed of tanners bark, obferving 
frequently to water the pots ; but not let them have 
much at each time. In fix weeks the plants will 
come up, and, if properly managed, will be fit to 
remove in a month’s time after, when they fhould be 
carefully feparated, and each planted into a feparate 
fmall pot filled with light kitchen-garden earth, and 
then plunged into the hot-bed again, obferving to 
fhade them from the fun till they have taken frefh 
root ; after which they muft have air every day in 
proportion to the warmth of the feafon, and their 
waterings during the fummer fhould be frequent, but 
fparing. In the autumn the plants muft be removed 
into the bark-ftove, and plunged into the tan-bed ; 
and in winter the plants muft not have too much 
water, left it occafions their throwing off their leaves. 
In fummer they muft have a good fhare of air, and 
the plants in the (love fhould be conftantly treated in 
the fame manner as other tender plants from the fame 
countries. 
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