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Tab. 14, 
Fig. 4. 
Zab. 13. 
Pig. 
Inches long, one and a half broad itt che middle where broadeft: of a very dark 
sreen colour, having three Ribs running through the Leaf ftom the Foot- 
falks énd, With tran{verfe ones aftet the manner of the others of this kind, of 
the Folivm usd in the Shops: the tops of the Branches are Bunches of {mall 
whire Flowers, to which fuccéed {0 many {mall, black, round, fmooth crowned 
Berries, having in a purplif Pulp, feveral very {mall black Seeds. 
It grows ina Gully near the Town of St. Fago de la Vega, in moft Gullies in 
Jamaica, and in all the Caribes. | | 
Pifo, in his Defcription of this Plant, fays, firft, That the Leaves are Z,- 
nuginofa, and then Veluti Lanuginofa, which {hows his flight way of defcribing. 
He fays likewife that the Leaves powdered, or Juice of them, Cure fre(h 
and inveterate Ulcers by the firft intention, if they be put into them very 
deep. . 
Seflularie fruttu non fpinofa, Malabathri foliis, fubtus niveis, frudtu racemofc, 
in umbelle modum difpofito. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 165. Saimbntus Barbadenfitus ditla 
foliis {ubincanis. Plukenet, tab. 221. fig. 6. | | 
This appeared in every thing to be the fame with the former, only the 
Leaves were white underneath, aiid extremely pretty ; the Fruit ftands in an 
Umbel at top, after the manner of Elder Berries, they making a more Hori- 
zontal Surface than the preceeding, whofe Berties are nor fo numerous, and 
fome plac’d higher, others lower. 
— [found it in Barbados or Nieves, which of them! remember nor. 
Lycium forte, foliis fubrotundis integris, fpinis © foliis ex adverfo fitis, Cat. 
pl. Fam. p.w71. | 
coloured, and fomewhat Scabrows, ot tough ba he Twigs, SA Metin were 
ut three quatters of an Tach Dia- 
tifing ex corum alis... Thi y ate of a dark grécn colour above, and finooth. 
2 
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I gathered it in Barbados. 1, ie: & i 
Prunifera vel nucifera feu nuci prunifera arbor Americana precel{a angusiis lan- 
vifoliis Lete virentibus maftichen odoratam Jundens. Plokenet. tab. rx7. z.5. 
Cat. pl. Fam.p. 108. es al 
This is-oneof the laygeft Trees, aad higheft of the Iland of Barbados, 
Where, it grows every Where, and is in ufé for all forts of Buildings, The 
Twigs wére brown-and fivooth, having Leaves with very fhort, if any Foot- 
ftalks, being themfélves about three Inches long, and about an Inch broad in 
the middle. where broadeft, apd hence it decreafes to both extremes, being 
of a very curious green colour, {mooth and fhining, fomewhat like to Bay- 
Leaves, having one middle, and feveral tranfverfe Nerves running very curi- 
oufly through the Leaf which is hard aad sot fucculent. The Fruit was a 
curbinaced {mall Plum Of the bigaefs and fhape of a-Hazel-Nut, having under 
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