The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIGA, 
Tafte to Victuals. He alfo fays tis good Timber for Ships againft Worms 
eating them and the Sea, and deftroying equinoctial Air. But f have feen 
Keels of Ships of this Wood eaten thro’ and thro’ by thefe large Sea 
Worms. 
LV. Morus fracta viridi, ligne fulphureo tinétorio. Cat. p. 128. Tab.158. 
Fig. 1. Rat. Hift. Tom. 3. dendr. p. 14. Boss jaune ou fuftok Rochef. p. gt. 
Tabl. p. 29. Arbor baccifera Bra(ilienfis, fruitu tuberculis inequali, mort amu- 
lo. Raij. Hift. p. 1639. An Bots jaune Abbeville, p. 208? De Biet. p. 338? 
Bots jaune. Pommet, p. 122. An Lignum croceo tingens. F. Be T. 1. pe 493.2 
Fuftick Wood. 
This Tree hasa great many very long and great Roots with abun- 
dance of fmaller Twigs, having a very yellow-colour’d Bark, by which 
it is firmly fix’d into all Partsof the Earth near it, and fends up a very 
large and {treight Trunc, fixty Foot or more high, cover’d with a light 
brown-colour’d Bark, having here and there fome fuperficial Furrows, in 
which appear a bright yellow Colour. The Wood is very firm, folid, and 
of avery fine yellow Colour: The Branches are fpread_on every Hand, 
and the Twigs are cover’d with a Bark of a more light Colour, fet with 
Leaves, ftanding on fhort Footftalks. They are rough, dark green in Co- 
lour, larger towards the Footftalk, from whence they endin a Point, and 
fomething refemble E/m Leaves,only are longer; a great many Fads orCat- 
kins come out at the Ends of the Branches,they are whitifh and fhort ; the 
Fruit ftands on a Foorftalk, is as large as a Nutmeg, round, having its 
Acini like the other Mulberries, of a greenifh Colour both without and 
within the Pulp; there are init fome flat brown fmall Seed, like Lix/eed, 
and before the Fruit comes to be ripe ’tis milky and not pleafant, but 
wha come to Maturity ’cis pleafant to the Taite, altho’ very lufcioully 
weet. 
_ This Tree grows very quickly: Ihave feen Trees thirty or forty Foot 
high in feven or eight Years Time. 
It grows by the Banks of the Rio Cobre, near the Town of St. Fazo de /a 
Vega,and in all the Plains of the North and South Sides of the Ifland. 
It is fell’d and cut into Loggs to be fent for Europe, to be ufed by the 
Dyers, for a yellow Colour, and ’tis worth Fifty Shillings ger Tun in fa- 
maica. ?Tisone of the Commodities this Ifland naturally affords, 
and being cut down in feveral Places, is by fome again planted for Shade, 
in their clear’d Fields, as well as that they may fell and make Profit of 
the Wood in fome few Years. 
The Wood is likewife very much ufed by Wheel- Wrights, | 
| bs Fruit is. pleafant to eat and very much coveted by Negro’sas a 
Delicacy. ) 
It is better if eaten with Wine and Sugar. Pi/o; 
This is not the Ponga H. M. p. 3. 74..as Commelina fufpects. 
It grows much in St. Craz and Tobago, Roch, 
The Fruit iseaten when frefh ; a Sapa is made of it good for a fore 
Throat. Vieremb, : 
V. Fuglandi. affinis arbor jualifera, laétefcens, venenata,pyrifolia,Mancanillo 
Hifpanis ditta, Cat. p. 129. Tab. 159. Mancaniha de Efquemeling. p. 34 
Malus Americana, laurocerafi folio, venenata. Mancinello arbor fen Maffinilia 
dita, Commel hort, Amft.p.131, Mancanilla pyri facie Plumier, pl. Ameri. 
p. 50. Macenilla arbor toxsca C7 lactea, fruttu fuavi pomiformi qua Indiant 
fagittas inficiunt, Surian, Mancaneel Tree of Dampier.cep. 3. An Mafinilis 
major Herm, par. Bat. cat.p.g? . The Mancaneel Tree. f 
ees : e This 
