THE 
Natural Hiftory 
JAMATICA., 
BOOK Lf PART “IL 
OF Te 
Tres of JAMAICA 
) HE greateft Part of the Ifland of Sfamaica was heretofore 
Brg] Cover’d with Woods ; the Frees remaining are very tall, fo 
EAN (eexa| that I could not come at the’ Leaves, Flowers, or Fruit of 
ay eee! many of them,, which makes the following Defcriptions the 
lefs perfect. : 
I was unwilling to divide’ Trees into thofe with divided and not di- 
vided Bodies, becaufe I found the Papaya, which generally is accounted. 
to have an undivided Body, to be fometimes divided, and fo fome 
Palms. 1 therefore rather chufe to range them as their Fruit ‘led mey 
orif I had not that, as their Flowers or Leaves. 
C Hap I. | 
Of Trees which bear their Flowers and Fruit Jeparated. 
I. UX juglans trifolia, fructu magnitudine nucis mofchate. Cat, p. 128, 
Tab. 157. Fig. 1. Raij. Hilt. pl. Tom, 3. dendr. p. 6. An Arbuf- 
cula Famaicenfis aleagni folijs ternis, communi peaiculo longiffimo 
infidentibus. Pluken. Alm. p-47- Phyt. Tab. 266. Fig.1. ? 
This Tree rifes to twenty Foot high, having a grey-colour’d Bark, with 
fomeSulci in it,being as thick as ones Thigh,ha ving Branches fpread round 
it, making acomely lop. Vhe Twigs have Leaves which {tand on their Ends 
‘without any Order, always three together on the fame, two Inches long 
wet common 
