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It hath a great number of Jlamina , which arefhorter 
than the petals , terminated by Jingle fummits. The ob- 
long oval germen is terminated by a plain Jlar-like jligma , 
with fix obtufe indentures. The germen afterward be- 
comes an oval capfule , with fix furrows , and fix cells , 
opening with fix valves , which fpread in form of a far , 
including many angular feeds fixed to a column , furrounded 
with pulp. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the firft feftion of 
Linnaeus’s twenty-third clafs, intitled Polygamia Mo- 
ncecia, having male, female, and hermaphrodite 
flowers on the fame plant. 
The Species are, 
1. Clusia ( Flava ) foliis aveniis corollis tetrapetalis. 
Jacq. Amer. 34. Clujia whofe leaves have no veins , 
and the flower has four petals. Terebinthus folio fln- 
gulari, non alato, rotundo, fucculento flore pallide 
luteo. Sloan. Hift. Jam. 2. p. 97. Commonly called 
Balfam-tree in America. 
2. Clusia ( Venofa ) foliis venofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. 510. 
Clujia with veined leaves. Clufla flore rofeo minor, 
fru£fcu flavefcente. Plum. Nov. Gen. 2. 
There are three varieties of the firftfort, which differ 
in the flze and colour of their flowers and fruit ; one 
hath a white flower and fcarlet fruit, another hath a 
Rofe flower and a greenifli fruit, and a third hath a 
yellow fruit : but thefe are fuppofed to be only fe- 
minai variations, though Plunder has enumerated 
them as diftinct fpecies •, but as the plants have not 
flowered in England, I can give no particular account 
of their difference : the Angular beauty of the leaves 
of this plant, renders it worthy of a place in every 
colledtion of rare plants. 
The firft fort is pretty common in the Britifh Iflands 
of America, where the trees grow to the height of 
twenty feet, and fhoot out many branches on every 
fide, garmfhed with thick, round, fucculent leaves, 
placed oppofite. The flowers are produced at the 
ends of the branches, each having a thick fucculent 
cover: thefe are of different colours in different 
plants, fome being red, others yellow, fome white, 
and fome green. After the flowers are paft, they are 
fucceeded by oval fruit, which are alio of different 
colours in different plants : from every part of thefe 
trees there exfudes a fort of turpentine, which is 
called in the Weft Indies Hog-gum ; becaufe they 
lay, that, when any of the wild hogs are wounded 
they repair to thefe trees, and rub their wounded 
parts againft the ftems of them, till they have anoint- 
ed themfelves with this turpentine, which heals their 
wounds. The turpentine of thefe trees is alfo greatly 
recommended for the cure of fciaticas, by fpreading 
it on a cloth, and applying it as a plafter to the part 
affefted. 
The plants are at prefent very rare in Europe : there 
were fome years ago fome fine plants in the garden of 
Mr. Parker, near Croyden in Surry ; thefe were 
brought over, growing in tubs of earth from Barba- 
does, which is the belt method of procuring them ; 
for the feeds feldom fucceed, and the young plants 
grow fo flowly, as not to make any figure in fome 
years ; but in the bringing over the plants, great 
care fhould be had, that they do not receive much 
wet ; for as thefe plants have very fucculent ftems, 
moifture will caufe them to rot. 
The plants are tender, fo they muff be conftantly 
kept in the ftove, otherwife they v/ill not live through 
the winter in England ; they muft alfo be watered 
very fparingly, eipecially in winter, for they natu- 
rally grow in thofe parts of the iflands, where it 
feldom rains, therefore they cannot bear much 
moifture. 
They may be propagated by cuttings, which muft be 
laid to dry when they are cut off from the plants for 
a fortnight or three weeks, that the wounded part 
may be healed over, otherwife they will rot. When 
the cuttings are planted, the pots fhould be plunged 
into a hot-bed of tanners bark, and now and then 
gently refrefhed with w r ater : the beft time for plant- 
ing thefe cuttings is in June or July, that they may 
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be well rooted before the cold weather comes oh hi 
autumn. In winter thefe plants may be placed upon 
ftands in the dry ftove ; but if in fummer they are 
plunged into the tan-bed, they will make great pro- 
grefs, and their leaves will be large, in which confifts 
the great beauty of thefe plants. 
The fecond fort was difcovered by the late Dr. Houf- 
toun, growing naturally at Campeachy, from whence 
he fent me fome dried famples and feeds : this hath 
very large oval fpear-fhaped leaves, ending in points, 
which are placed alternate on the branches, and have 
feveral ribs, which go off from the midrib alternate, 
rifing upward to the fide of the leaves ; and alfo a 
great number of fmall veins, running horizontally be- 
tween thefe ribs. The borders of the leaves are flaw- 
ed, and their under Aides are of a fhining brown co- 
lour. The branches are covered with a woolly down, 
and the flowers are produced in loofe fpikes at the 
end of the fhoots ; thefe are final ler than thofe 
of the former fort, and are of a Rofe colour. This 
tree riles to the height of twenty feet ; it is propa- 
gated by feeds, which muft be obtained from the 
countries where the trees naturally grow, for there 
can be little hopes of obtaining any of the feeds in Eu- 
rope. The plants are tender, fo muft be placed in 
the tan-bed of the bark-ftove, otherwife they will not 
thrive in this country and they muft be treated in 
the fame manner as is directed for other tender plants 
from the fame countries. 
C L U T I A. This genus of plants was conftituted by 
the learned Dr. Boerhaave, profeffbr of botany in the 
univerflty of Leyden, in honour of Augerius Clute, 
a curious botanift. 
The Characters are, , 
It is male and female in different plants. The male flow- 
ers have a large fpreading empalement , compofed of five 
oval concave leaves •, they have five heart-jhaped petals , 
which arc floor ter than the empalement, and fpread open. 
They have five exterior ne Bariums , which are Jituated in 
a circle at the bottom of the petals ; and five interior , 
which are Jituated within the other , having fmall apices 
with a mcllous liquor , and five Jlamina Jituated in the 
middle of the ftyle , which fpread horizontally, terminated 
by roundijh fummits : thefe have no germen , but a long 
truncated ftyle in the middle of the Jlamina. The female 
flowers have permanent empalement s, and petals like thofe 
of the male ; thefe have five double exterior ne Bariums , 
but no interior \ they have a roundijh germen, fupporting 
three bifid reflexed fiyles the length of the petals , crowned 
by obtufe Jligma: the germen afterward becomes a globular 
capfule, with fix furrows , and three cells, each containing 
a Jingle feed. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the thirteenth flec- 
tion of Linnaeus’s twenty-fecond clafs, intitled Dice- 
cia Gynandria. This feftion and clafs include thofe 
plants which have the different fexes on feparate plants, 
and the male flowers have their ftamina adhering to 
the ftyle. 
The Species are, 
1. Clutia ( Alaternoides ) foliis feflilibus lineari-lanceo- 
latis floribus folitariis erectis. Hort. Cliff. 500. Clu- 
tia with linear fpear-fhaped leaves fitting clofe to the 
Jlalks, and folitary erect flowers. Alaternoides Afri- 
cana telephii legitimi imperati foliis. Hort. Amft. 2. 
2. Clutia ( Pulchella ) foliis ovatis integerrimis, floribus 
lateralibus. Lin. Sp. Plant. 1042. Clutia with oval en- 
tire leaves, and flowers grozving from the fides of the 
branches. Frutex /Ethiopicus, portulace folio, flore 
ex albo virefeente. Hort. Amft. 1. p. 177. 
3. Clutia { Eleutheria ) foliis cordato lanceolatis. Flor. 
Zeyl. Clutia with heart fpear-fhaped leaves. Ricinus 
dulcis arborefeens Americanus, populnea fronde 
argentea. Pluk. Aim. 321. 
The two firft forts are natives of Africa, from 
whence they were brought to fome curious gardens 
in Holland, and have fince been communicated to 
moft of the botanic gardens in Europe. The firft 
fort with male flowers has been long an inhabitant of 
fome curious gardens in England ; the other with 
female flowers has been lately introduced, 
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