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This Tree was large, and had Twigs covered with a brown Bark, under 
Which wasa hard Wood, the Leaves were placed at its ends without any or- 
der, ftandingon ftrong Inch long Foot-ftalks, They themfelves weré rdtndith 
about Six Inches long, and Four broad in the mi'dle where broadeft,  béing 
fhining, and {mooth on the upper fide, but uneven on the under, octafioned 
by feveral Nerves running varioufly through it, making Furréws onthéup 
per fide. } a bd eons! 
[ found it inthe Ifland of Barbados. i . nm 
Laurifolia vencnata, folio leviter ferrato, oblonga, obtufo, copiofum Lac prebens. 
Cat. ft Fam. p. 136. eri Pa sage eo) 
The Trunk of this Tree was of about Two or Three Foot Diameté?, 
rifing Forty or Fifty Foot high, and yielding Milk in alf its parts Very ‘plenti- 
fully as the Tree commonly called Milk-Wood in Jamaica, to which ‘it was 
very like in all its parts, excepting that the Leaves of this had more ttant 
verié parallel Veins than it, they were not {fo much pointed, bur more Round 
or Oval, and ferrated very eafily on the Edges. ae ae 
I found it in the Roads every where in the Ifland of Barhados. “°° \% 
_ Fellers of Wood take care of the Milk of this Tvée coming’ on their 
Faces or Eyes, it making them Blind fora Month: two Horfes quarrelliny in 
a Wood, this Juice coming into their Eyes Blindéd them,, 7:20). Theie Bodtde 
when dried the Poifon evaporates, and then théy/are made into Suigat-POts, 27, 
Its Shade is thought. hurtful. mo. tata eS ablg Smo! 
Periclymenum rectum, falvia folio easel mipnore fubrotutido. . ‘Gul: pl. fiw p. 164. 
This was about the heighth of Garden-Sage, having towards the top rough 
four {quare, hoary, Stalks, on. which ftood Leaves oppofjte to one another, 
ona quarter of an Inch rough Foot-ftalks, they were alnig round, of about 
three quarters of an Inch Diameter, having oné middle “Rib, fending’ everdl 
Tranfverfe Fibres through the Leaf, which is corrugated, on its Sutface, like 
the Leaves of Sage, and indented about thé Edges, #x alit oliorwn viles {eVetal 
Foot-halks about Two. Inches long, fuftaining a {mall Head made ‘upoF{e- 
veral pale fmall Flowers, whofe Ore are divided ito feveral Sections; and td 
‘which, although I did not fee the Fruit, yet I. queftion nor. but the fame kind 
followed, astotheothers of the fame Family tobe defcribed heréafter, 
Jt grew inthe Ifland of Barbados, oo > cannes siete cae \ 
_ Chriffophoriana Americana Malabathri foliis dcuminasis nou fs dent etd. P fhkenct. 
tab. 159+, fi. 10, Cat. pl. Fam, p.164. Sidi maha _ re | 
[found it inthe Ifland of Barbados, whence 1 brought foie dried Samples 
of it,.; | ee ee 
Arbor Americana Malabathri [ubrotundis foliis, fubtus lanugine ferruginea vil- 
¢ 
lofis. Plukenct. tab. 249. fig. 3. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 164. 0 8 
Mis feemed to be in Flowers, Leaves, dc. in all thitigs the famé’ with the 
others of the fame Family, only it was leffer in the Leaves than moft, of them, 
atdd above, ‘in: which 
they were fomewhat rufty on the back fide, and ae d C, 
it was differing from. all the others. The ‘Leaves ftand oppofice one to. the 
other, and they were of a dark greén colour!’ 83°" agin 
_. [found itin the Ifland of Barbados, 0 
Grolfularia fruttu non Ipinofa, Malabathri™ faliis. oblding és: ‘floribus hérbaceis race- 
mofis, fruciunigro. Aninga peri. Pif. (Ed. 1648.) p. 116. (Ed. 1658.) p. 2.18. 
Fonft. Dendr.r69,, Cat. pl. Fam p. 165. Av’ Arbufcula Famaicenfiis Malabathri 
angu/tiorbus foliis leviter crenatis fuperna facie per ficcitatem® nigris, [ubtus au- 
tem argeateis Cy pralevore [plendentibus - Plukengt, P hyt. tab. 265 . fig. 1. Almag. 
: f: 49 fy OT jOViNg t bea ' ;  mtne Ja JL 
~~ "Ehis Shrub. rifles fometimes Ten Foot high, though’ very often ’tis ‘about 
- ae only, A one is {mall, branch’d, having a {mooth whitifh Bark ; 
its Leaves ftand on half an Inch Foot-ftalks oppofite t6‘one another; ci - 
‘ nches 
