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with the Adelia by Lamarck. Juflieu preferved the name 
of Toddalia, by which it is known on the coaft of Ma¬ 
labar. 
2. Paullinia feriana; (Seriana fcanda triphylla et ra- 
cemofa, Plum. Gen. 34. Ic. 113.) Leaves ternate, pe¬ 
tioles naked, leaflets ovate-oblong. 3. Paullinia nodofa: 
leaves ternate, petioles naked, middle leaflet obovate. 
4. Paullinia cururu, (Cururu fcandens triphylla, 
Plum. Gen. 34. Ic. 111.) Leaves ternate, petioles mar¬ 
gined. Natives of South America. 
5. Paullinia Mexicana, (Seriana fcandens enneaphylla 
et racemofa, Plum. Gen. 34. Ic. 113.) Leaves biternate, 
all the petioles margined, Hera prickly. Native of Mexico. 
6 . Paullinia Carthaginenfis; leaves biternate, all the 
petioles margined, Hem unarmed. This has the leaves 
more cut than the other fpecies ; and they are very thin, 
whereas in the reft they are more or lefs coriaceous and 
thick. It is entirely void of prickles. Found by Plu- 
mier ; and afterwards by Jacquin about Carthagena in 
New Spain, in coppices. 
7. Paullinia Caribtea : leaves biternate, all the petioles 
margined, branches prickly. The branches and common 
petioles are armed with numerous recurved prickles. 
Native of the Caribees. 
8 . Paullinia Curaffavica, or fliining-leaved paullinia: 
leaves biternate, all the petioles margined, branches un¬ 
armed. Jacquin remarks that in Plunder's figure the pe¬ 
tioles appear to be naked ; they are all, however, except 
the common one, margined, or winged at the edge, but fo 
flightly, that it can hardly be exprelfed in a figure. Native 
of Curafoa. 
According to Swartz, this is the Paulinia, or fouple- 
jack, of Browne, which lie fays is very common in the 
woods of Jamaica, with its flender woody flexile ftalk, 
railing itfelf frequently to a very confiderable height 
among the bullies : it is fo tough and yielding, that it is 
commonly cut into junks, barked, and ufed for riding 
and walking flicks. See Paullinia polyphylla. It was 
cultivated by Mr. Miller in 1739. 
9. Paullinia Barbadenfis: leaves biternate, middle 
petiole margined, the reft naked. This differs from the 
preceding principally in the form of the leaves, and in 
the flighter and lefs frequent inciiion of them. Native 
of the Weft Indies. Introduced in 1786, by Mr. Alex¬ 
ander Anderfon. 
10. Paullinia divaricata : leaves biternate, leaflets ovate 
acute, moftly entire; petioles naked, panicles divaricating, 
wings of the capfules ovate. Native of Jamaica. 
11. Paullinia polyphylla, parfley-leaved paullinia, or 
fupplejack; (Seriana frutefcens polyphylla et racemofa. 
Plum. Gen. 34. Ic. 112.) Leaves triternate, petioles 
naked. Native of the Weft Indies. Cultivated in 1739 
by Mr. Miller, but not mentioned in the Didlionary. 
According to the Kew Catalogue, this is the Jupple-Jaclr, 
and if Browne, by foliis ternato-ternatis, means triternate 
leaves, his Paulinia is this fpecies; but his fynonymsare 
confuted. 
12. Paullinia triternata: leaves triternate, petioles 
margined. This climbs trees to the height of twenty 
feet. Branches round, fmooth, grooved, long, flexible. 
Leaves fhining, alternate, numerous : racemes axillary, 
four inches long, having about fifty flowers in them, 
naked for about two inches, and then divided into three 
parts, and putting out two tendrils, two inches long, 
fmooth and flat ; calyx and corolla white ; leaves of the 
firft ne&ary white with yeliow tips,at firftfight refembling 
ftamens. Native of St. Domingo, in woods. 
13. Paullinia Japonica: leaves quinate-pinnate, petio- 
letted margined, Item herbaceous unarmed. Stem her¬ 
baceous, angular, climbing, fmooth, fcarcely the thick- 
nefs of a draw. Native of Japan. 
14. Paullinia vefpertilio : leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate 
acuminate gaftied, petioles naked, capfules pedicelled, 
with horizontal lanceolate wings. Native of the Weft 
Indies. 
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15. Paullinia pinnata, or winged-leaved paullinia: 
leaves pinnate, petioles margined, leaves fhining. Native 
of Brafil, Jamaica, and Domingo, in dry fandy places. 
The infertion of the feeds is the fame in Cururu as in 
Seriana; but there is a remarkable difference between 
them in the fituation of the partitions. 
16. Paullinia tomentofa, or downy-leaved paullinia: 
leaves pinnate, petioles margined, leaflets tomentofe. 
17. Paullinia diverfifolia, or different-leaved paullinia: 
leaves fuperdecompound, petioles margined, the loweft 
pinnate, the reft ternate. Natives of South America. 
Propagation and Culture. Procure the feeds from the 
countries where they naturally grow. As foon as they 
arrive, fow them in fmall pots filled with light earth, and 
plunge them into a moderate tan-bed. If the feeds ar¬ 
rive in autumn, plunge the pots in the bark-bed in the 
ftove, and probably the plants may come up the follow¬ 
ing fpring : but, if they arrive in fpring, plunge the pots 
in a moderate hot-bed under a frame, where they may be 
continued all the fummer; in autumn remove them into 
the ftove for the winter, watering them now and then 
fparingly. The following fpring plunge the pots into a 
new hot-bed under a frame, which will bring up the 
plants in about fix weeks, if the feeds are good. When 
the plants are fit to remove, plant each in a fmall pot 
filled with light earth, and plunge them into a hot-bed of 
tanner’s bark, obferving to (hade them till they have 
taken new root; after which they fhould have free air 
admitted to them daily, in proportion to the warmth of 
the feafon. In the autumn they muft be removed into 
the bark-ftove, where they muft conftantly remain. As 
they require much room, and their flowers have little 
beauty, they are feldom propagated in Europe. 
PAULMIE'R de GRENTEMESNIL', (Jacques le), a 
man of letters, fon of a learned phyfician, Julien le Paul- 
mier, was born in the diftrift of Auge in 1587. He was 
brought up in the proteftant religion, which was that of 
his parents, and puffed fome years in the houfe of Du- 
moulin at Paris, where he attended the leffures of Ca- 
faubon and other learned men. At fixteen he was fent 
to Sedan, where he perfected himfelf in claffical ftudies, 
and went through a courfe of philofophy. He afterwards 
ftudied the law at Orleans, and employed feveral fubfe- 
quent years in travelling, and adding to the copious 
ftore of his literary acquifitions. At the age of thirty- 
three he entered into the army, and ferved with repu¬ 
tation in Holland againft the Spaniards under the princes 
Maurice and Henry of Naffau. After the peace he paffed 
fome time upon the paternal eftate in Normandy, and 
then again ferved in Lorraine at the head of a company 
of cavalry given him by the duke of Longueville. Re¬ 
turning with honour, he finally fettled at Caen, where, 
at an advanced age, he married an Englifh lady of fortune. 
He devoted himfelf to literature, and to the fociety of 
the men of erudition with which Caen at that time 
abounded, among whom it is fufficient to mention Huet 
and Bochart. He was the firft planner of the academy 
there eftablifhed, and fupported it againft the efforts of 
malice and ignorance. With irreproachable manners, he 
preferved the high fpirit of a military man ; and Huet 
relates, that w hen he was alinoft in a ftate of decrepitude, 
being inlulted by a rude and inlblent young man, he fent 
him a challenge, and obliged him to deliver his fword 
and beg his life. He was greatly afflidled with the ftone, 
for which he twice underwent the operation of lithotomy. 
After many fevere fufferings, which he bore with great 
refignation, he died in 1670, at the age of eighty-three. 
M. de Grentemefnil was a man of extraordinary quick- 
nefs of parts, and compofed with great facility poems in 
the Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Spanifh, languages; 
but his moft valuable performances were of the critical 
clafs. At the perfualion of Huet, he publilhed a collec¬ 
tion of obfervations made in the perufal of various au¬ 
thors, under the title of “Exercitationes in optimos 
Auitores Gnecos,” 1668, 4to. The great labour of his 
. latter 
