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216 The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
Maho-Trec, or Shrub of Dampier, cap. 3. The Sea Mahot or Mangroye- 
Tree. 
’Tis the fame in every refpect with the former, only the Leaves zre {mal- 
ler, of a whiter green colour, and a little pointed. The underfide being 
very white. The Flowers are of {the fame fhape but yellow, and the Seeds 
are the fame. 
It grows by the Sea-fide near Captain Draxe’s Plantation, in the North 
fide of the Ifland in St. Avns, very plentifully. 
The Bark is of che fame ufe with the former. 
The Ropes made of the Bark of this Tree, are ufed to tye the Human 
Bodies they in Brafile defign to kill for Sacrifices. Lery Linfcbot. 
The Leaves and Flower feed great Lizards. Its Bark is ufed for Tobacco 
in rolling it; for Matches for the Spaniards, and for fowing the Reeds toge- 
ther for the Houfesto coverthem. Tertre. 
In our return to the North Sea, we cut and made Piperies or Floats 
of four or five of thefe Truncs, being light and floating; after barking 
they being tied together with wild Withs inftead of Cords, two or three, 
or more of them, according to the bignefs of the Pipery. Raveneau de 
Luffan. 
iy Doctor Plukenct fhould call this fussmis ramis radicofa 1 know not. 
Ill. Malva arborea, folio oblongo acuminato, veluto, dentato & leviter finuato, 
lore ex rubro flavefcente. Cat. p.95. Tab. 135. Fig. 1. 
This rifes to about twelve foot high, having a woody Trunc, and feveral 
Branches, whofe Twigs are hairy, and have fome few Leaves fer: alterna- 
tively, at about an Inches diftance towards their ends, each being placed 
onan Inch and an half long Foot-Stalks, they are about four Inches long, 
and near as broad near the round Bafe where broade{t, and whence they 
decreafe, ending ina point, being very foft, woolly, and having fome flight 
finuations, as well as indentures about the edges, and feveral Ribs running 
through the Leaf, taking their Original from the Foot-Stalks end, as from 
acommon Center, being much more pointed than either of the foregoing. 
£x alis folicrum towards the top comes out the Flowers, ftanding on 
Jarge hirfute five Inches long Foot-Stalks, in a Calyx made up of many 
Foliola in two Series’s,the outward Series being the narroweft. Within this 
is a large Flower, of a yellowifh Carnation colour, like in every thing 
to the others of this Kind. After which follows large brown Seeds, 
placed like thofe of Mallows, to which they are very like in every thing, 
only larger. ; 
It grew on the Red Hills over againft Mr. Batchelor’s Houfe very plen- 
tifully. 
IV. Malva arborea, folio oblongo, acuminate, glabro, dentato. Cat.p.¢6. Tab. 
136. Fig. 1. 
This had feveral wooddy Branches, with a {mooth afh-coloured Bark, 
white Wood, and large Pith. The Leaves came out on the ends of the 
Twigs, being fet on two or three Inches long Foot-Stalks, longer than the 
precedent, and not fo broad; ferrated, but not finuated about the edges, 
being {mooth, and not hairy or hirfute as that, but in every thing elfe very 
like it. The Flowers come at top ex alis foliorum, They are leffer, as is 
alfo the Seed, both ftanding in a fmaller Calyx, and on a flenderer, as well 
as fhorter Foot-Stalk. 
It grew in Famaica. 
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