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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
VI. Tilia affinis Laurifolia, arbati Floribus albis racemofis odoratis, fruchu 
dad Sec Cat. fam. p. 136. Tab.163. Fig. 1. Vol. Tom, 3. Dendr. 
. 88. 
: This Tree rifes to about thirty Foot high, by a Thick Trunk, ¢o- 
ver’d with aClay colour’d, furrow’d Bark. The Ends of the Branches have 
Leaves coming out irregularly, ftanding onan 8ch of an Inch long Foot- 
ftalk, being two Inches long, one broad in the Middle where Broadeft, 
{mooth, having a large Middle Rib : On the Ends of the Twigs come out the 
Flowers feveral together, on an eighth of an Inch Footitalk being urceo- 
lated, or like thofe of Erica Ramulis ternis. I. B, only white and very fweet 
{cented, after which fucceeds fo many five angl’d or cannulated, calycula- 
ted, roundith dry Berries or Seeds, lying in a Pentaphytlous Calix, having 
in each litle Leaf, cwo little obtufe Apices or Prickles at Bottom. 
It grows on the Mountains near Mr. Elletfon’s Plantation in Liewazee. 
This feems to me different from ‘the Laurus tinus Virgintana floribus albi- 
dis eleganter bullatts. D. Baatfter Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 199 Fig. 7. “ 305. 
Fig.2. which Dr. Plakenet fufpects. p. 116. of his Mantiffa may be the 
fame. 
VII. Leurifolia Arbor flore tetrapetalo, Fructu racemofo rotundo cannulato 
cy coronato, Cat. Fam p. 136. Tab.163. Fig. 2. Rasy. Vol. 3. Dendr. 
p. 86. An Laurifolta Famaicenfis baccifera Fructu parvo oblongo ftrtato. Plak. 
Alm. p. 211. ? 
This Tree had its Branches ftreight, cover’d with a dark colour’d 
fmooth brown Bark, under which was a white Wood. The Leaves 
come at the Ends of the Twigs, without any Order, ftanding on a 
qr. of an Inch Footftalk, being about two Inches long and one broad 
near the further End where broadeft, being narrow at the Beginning, 
_augmenting to near the Top, where they are blunt and round. The 
are {mooth, fhining, thick, and fomewhat like to the Leaves of the Correx 
Winteranus Tree. The Flowers come in Bunches on the Tops of the 
Twigs, being oblong, of a pale yellow Colour, made up of four Pe- 
tala ; the under Part of this fwells into a cannulated, round, coro- 
nated, fmall Fruit, not fo large as a Pepper-Corn, but very elegant 
and te fe 
I found it in the North Side of the Ifland of famaica. 
VIII. Cariophyllas [purius inodorus, folio fubrotundo fcabro, flore racemosa 
bescaper ates coccineo Jpeciofiffimo. Cat. “fam, p.136. Tab. 164. Raij. Dendr. 
Vol. 3. p. 86. , 
This Shrub by feveral, eight or nine Foot high Stems or Trunks, 
having a Clay colonr’d Bark, rifes ftreight up, having Leaves atthe bops 
of the Branches, {tanding on round Inch long Foorftalks very thick fet 
by one another. They are almoft round, four Inches long and three broad, 
very harfh to the Touch, and of a very dark green Colour ; the: Flowers 
are {tanding each in a long rough Calix on the Branches Ends ‘on their 
Footftalks, Umbell Fafhion, are of a delicate fine fearlet Colour, many 
and large, confifting of a long undivided Tabulus, fomething like a Clove, 
and a broad Margin, divided into fix Se€tions, all ftanding in a dark 
brown Capfula, The Fruit I never found in Perfection, but perhaps it 
ought to be referr’d to the Cariophylli [purij. 
It grew on a rocky Bank over Mr. Batchelor’s Houfe near the black Ri- 
ver Bridge, and made there a moft pleafant Sight. 
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