The Natural Hiftory of JAMAYC A. 
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IX. Laurus folio longiore, flare hexapetalo racemofo, fruiiz humidiore, 
Cat. Jam. p. 135. Tab. 165. Raj. Tom. 3. Hift. Dendr, p. 86. 
| Sweet-Weod. 
This Tree rifes.to the Heighth and Largenefs of tlie Ordinary Bay, 
having many Branches, whofe Twigs have Leaves fet on them without 
any Order, on half Inch long Footftalks ; chey are feven Inches long and two 
broid in the Middle, where broade(t, being narrow at the Beginning, and 
ending ina fharp Point, fhining, hard, fmooth, thin, having one middle, 
and feveral tranfverfe Ribs, and when broken giving a very grateful 
Smell, in all Things refembling the Bay. The Flowers are white, hexa- 
petalous, each of the Petala being broad and fhort, feveral of them 
{tanding..in a Sparfe Bunch faltened to the Ends of the Stalks by two 
Inch long, red Footftalks. To each of thefe Flowers fucceeds an oval 
blackifh Berry, bigger than that of the Bay, containing within a thin 
black Pulp, one Kernel exaétly like that of the Bay Berry. 
Ir grows on the red Hills, by the Banks of the Rio Cabre very plen- 
tifully, and in feveral other Places of this Ifland. 
X. Laurus folio breviore, flore racemofo minore. Cat. Jam. P. 130, 1 ae. 
166. Figw1. - 7 «fl 
The Branches of this Tree were cover’d with a finooth, reddith brown 
Bark, under which was a hard, white and fomewhat aromatick W ood, 
having Leaves {tanding alternatively on its Twigs at uncertain or une- 
qual Dilfances; each of them had about one eighth of an Inch long 
Footltalk, were, about two Inches and three quarters long, and one 
broad in; the Middle, where broadeft, whence it decreas'd, ending ia 
a Point; it was very fmooth on its Surface, had one Middle and 
fome tranfverfe Ribs, and was very like the Precedent: The Ends 
of the Twigs are branch’d into feveral Foorftalks, fultaining many 
{mall Flowers, as to growing, ec. very like the Precedent, wherefore I 
havereduc’dithither. — : i | : 
Ir grew in the Inland, or North Parts of this Ifand. 
_ XI. Laarifolia arbor verenata folio acuminato, copiofum lac prebens, ex quo 
infpiffatort{cus aucupum paratur, Cat. Fam. p. 136. Tab, 167. Figs ts GF 2s 
Rai. Denar. p.87.Vol. 3. Hift, An Acomos Rochef. p.69°?..An Lauri Sacie 
arbor venufte venofis folijs Latte turgens Americana Pluk, Phyt. Tabs 1 99. 
Fig..6. Alm, p. 210. | pr) nik jones 
, Milkwood-Tree.: 
This Tree has.a Trunc as big as one’s Thigh, cover’d: with a grey, 
almoft fmooth Bark on the Outfide, being reddifh brown) within, ‘and 
near one quarter of an Inch thick: It rifes twenty or thirty Foot high, and 
has feveral Branches, whofe Twigs are befer with Leaves at an Inch’s 
Diftance ; they ftand‘on more than an Inch long Footftalk; are of a yel- - 
lowifh green Colour and round, fix Inches long and almoft- three broad 
inthe Middle, where broadeft, and whence they decreafe to both Ends, 
They are very fmooth, thick, and have one Middle. and. feves 
ral tranfverfe Ribs going from it to the Sides. From. the End of the 
Footltalk they augment in Breadth to the Middle, and thence decreafe 
to the Point. sth aiid iM ad5Vi orniabem eres 
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