The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIC A. 
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XV. Lauro affinis Fafmini folio alato, cofta media membranulis atringue 
extantibus alata, lignt duritie ferro vix cedens, Cat. Fam. p. 1 37. Tab. 162° 
Fig. 1. Raij. Hift. dendr. Vol. 3. p. 88. An Syderoxylum Surinamenfe, Len™ 
tifcini minoribus Foliys, radchi media appendicibus auéto. Pluk. Mant: 
ae & EP 
Tron-Wood. 
ThisTree has a very hard Wood, of a pale yellow Colour, clofe like Box, 
cover’d with a grey Bark, rifing to twenty Foot high, having nu- 
merous Branches fpread on every Hand, on the Ends of which, come 
the Leaves, they are wing’d, the Pinne being very fmall, and having 
one odd one at the End; the middle Rib is about an Inch, or fome- 
times two Inches long, having narrow extant Membranes or Appendices, 
like to the Alz, or extant Parts of the middleRib of Sopeberry-tree Leaves, 
or the Leaves of Orange-trees: Between each pair there is an Ifthmus, 
where they are fet oppofite to one another. Each of the Pinnz 
are about one third of an Inch long and half as broad in the Middle 
where broadeft, whence they decreafe to both Extremes, fmooth 
and of a yellowifh green, Colour; the Fruit comes out of the Sides 
of the Twigs, two or three together, being a Membrane or thin Pulp, 
which cleaves in two, and fhews one large Seed or Kernel. 
It grows in the Savanna’s, and has the Name from the Hardnefs 
of the. Wood. 3 
james Reid brought a Tree over from Barbadoes, which was in every 
thing the fame only the Twigs were prickly. 
If this be the Jron-Wood of Ligom p. 41. it grows in Barbadoes. and p. 74. 
he tells us, that *tis proper to make Cogs, that neither Sun nor Wind 
hurts it, and that it is fo hard as to break their Tools. 
XVI. Paliuro affinis Liguftrifolia [pinofa, flore Monopetalo difformi, frattu 
ficcco fepretandes Cat. Fate. vee Te , crete 3- Rasy. rit Vol. 
. Denar. p- 97- 
: This Thee or Shrub had feveral fmall Stems from the fame Root, 
ten or twelve Foot Jong, inclining their Heads downwards, and co- 
ver’d with a whitifh, grey, fmooth, Bark. Towards the Ends of the 
Branches, they have agreat many fhort crooked Prickles, oppofite one 
to the. other, at halfan Inch’s Interval, and at the fame Place, many 
Leaves fet likewife oppofite to one another-on half Inch long Footftalks, 
being two Inches long and halfan Inch broad in the Middle, where broad- 
eft, of a.Grafs green Colour, fmooth, and narrrow at their Beginning and 
End. Several Flowers ftand together at the Ends of the Twigs on 
Inch long Foorftalks, two for the moft Part on the fame Footftalk, being 
an Inchlong,:Monopetalous, difform, whitifh, and having in theirMiddle, 
feveral very long: Purplifh Stamina. The Flower dropping off the Stylus 
augments, and «there follows a roundifh, fmall, Fruit, Head, or 
dry Berry,-no bigger than a fmall Pea, of a peculiar Shape and Figure, 
being roundifh, with a Ligula or Top. ; 
it grows in the Savanna-Woods, and in Barbadoes. 
XVII. Paliaro affinis arbor fpinofa, flore racemofo herbaceo pentapetaloi- 
de, frattu fico undo cannulato lappaceo. Cat. Fam. p. 137. Tab. 167. Fig. 
3+4- Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p..97. Pifonia aculeata frutta glutinofo & ra- 
cemofo. Plum, pl. Am, p. 7. 
G Fingrizo 
