The Natural Hiftory of JAM AYCA. 
IN, 
Baftard € edar-T ree. 
This hasa very ftrong Root deeply faften’d in the Ground, fend- 
ing up a Trunk as large as one’s Middle, forty Foor high, its Bark is 
of adark brown Colour and furrow’d as Alder. The Branches are fpread 
onevery Hand, befet alternatively with Leaves at-halfan Inchés Diftance, 
{tanding on quarter Inch long Footftalfts, they are 3 Inches long aad, half 
as broad near the round Bafe, where broadeft, from whence they end in a 
Point, their Edges are ferrated, furfaces woolly, of a yellowith green 
Colour, having one Middle and feveral tranverfe Ribs thro’ the, Leaves, 
Ex alis Foliorum come fmall Branches fuftaining on fhore Foorftalks a 
great many pentapetalous yellow Flowers. The Cones are as big as 
the End of one’s Finger, of a dark brown Colour, round, and rough, 
within are feveral Cells, in each whereof lie many dark brown, roundifh 
Seeds, 
I: grows in the low Land Woods and Savanna’s very plenti- 
fully. 
it is left ftanding when other Trees are fell’d, becaufe of its Ufeful- 
nefs for nourifhing Cattle when Grafs and other Food fail. Io great 
Droughts, the greater Catile come to thefe Trees and very, carefully 
gather the Cones for their Food. They are alfo ‘gather’d and kept by 
Plaovers for their Cattle in Times of Scarcity, for they fatten upon 
them as wellas Corn. | ae A Awd , 
Earth taken up from under thefe Trees raifes Nifpera Seeds the beft of 
any. This Tree being rais’d with D:fficulty 1 fuppofe is brought for- 
ward by the Dung of the Cattle reforting to thefe Trees for Food, 
mix’d with che Earth of che Place. oe 
The Timber ot this Tree isduGile, white and good to make Staves of 
for Casks of all Sorts. sie 
V. Tilia forte arbor racemofa, folio longiori fubtus albicante airvis purpurcis 
infiguito, flore pentapetalo purpureo. Cat. Jam. p. 235. Raij. Dendr, Lom, 3. 
p- 88. Tab.158. Fig. 3. | FEES 
This Tree had feveral woody flender Branches cover’d with a 
light-colour’d, reddifh, brown, 1mooth Bark, under. which "was a 
white Wood, being divided imto Twigs fet with Leaves at one 
third of an Inch Diftance from one another, each of them ftand- 
ing on one ten Inches long Footftalk, being about two Inches long and 
one and a half broad, roundifh, langer at Bafe than at the End, where 
it is obrufe, being green above, and very pleafantly white underneath, 
with one Middle and feveral tranfverfe Ribs running thro’ is of a Purple 
Colour ; the Flowers came out-of the Ends of the Twigs on Strings a- 
bout two or three Inches long, plac’d alernatively after one another, cach 
having its feveral fmall Inch-long Petiolus, and a Foliolum, or fmall 
Leaf at Bottom, onthe Top of which ftands fix ftrong, thick, fmall, 
purplifh Petala, or Foliola, enclofing as in a Calix, a fingle roundifh 
black Seed, fomewhat like thofe of the Tzdza, _ 
J found itin the Woods, I cannot exactly tell where, | 
An serva mora Canar. Phukenet mant. p. 21° Alm. p. 42? 
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