L'histoire naturelle de la Barbade : dans dix livres . , Ils sont mangés, fome-fois mais efteemcd sont d'être de trop froid une nature d'être commerce-fome. Je le livre ipndof VJI LA BARBADE. Il Granadilla-Vine ^j. Bonjour S est le fruEiu maliformi Granadilla latifolia père de Plu-MiER. La manette de cette vigne est quadrangulaire, bordé sur son Clafpers everyAngle :, ou des vrilles, il fupports itfelf par qui, sont très nu-mères, ainsi que les feuilles sont nombreux ; thefe fix pouces de long, et cinq, inBreadth ftanding Footftalks cornerd-sur quatre. Les fleurs sont de la renommée d'effectuer avec laTion-Flower Paf. Le fruit est d'une lon

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The natural history of Barbados : in ten books . ; they are fome-times eaten, but are efteemcd to be of too cold a Nature to be whol-fome. I The Book VJI ipndof BARBADOS. I ^he Granadilla-Vine. HI S is the Granadilla latifolia fruEiu maliformi of Father Plu-MiER. The Stalk of this Vine is quadrangular, bordered upon everyAngle : Its Clafpers, or Tendrils, by which it fupports itfelf, are very nu-merous, as well as the Leaves many ; thefe are fix Inches long, and five inBreadth, ftanding upon four-cornerd Footftalks. The Flowers are ofthe fame Make with the PafTion-Flower. The Fruit is of a long ovalShape, of a yellowifh Green when ripe ; containing a great Numberof fmall Seeds or Acinic covered with a gelly-like Juice, or fweetifli Pulp.This Vine grows beft in fhady Places, and muft be fupported with anArbour. The Fig-Tree. AS neither this Tree, nor its Fruit the eatable Fig, difFer from thatof the fame Species in England and clfewhere, it will be nccd-lefs to give it a particular Defcription. Here ends the Pruniferous Kind of Fruit.. Bbb O F TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, O F T H E S I L I Q^U O S E KIND. BOOK VIII. BY Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, of the filiquofe Kind, are to be under-ftood all thofe whofe Fruits are inclofed in Pods.It is obfervable, that very few Trees bear Pods in cold Climates, in Com-parifon to the great Number which warm Countries abound with. And, as moft of the filiquofe herbaceous Plants are fcandent, it is re-markable, that as they are weak, and, as it were, helplefs of themfelves;therefore indulgent Nature hath provided them with either Tendrils orClafpers to intwine about others, and be fupported by them; and oftenwith even fliarp-pointed Hooks at their Extremities to faften upon theneighbouring Trees or Rocks: And thus, Hke helplefs Orphans, by thisfoftering Affiftance, they not only fubfift, climb up, and flourifh; butalfo help to adorn the Face of Nature with their varied Beauties. It is likewife worthy our Notice to obferve, that thefe are

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