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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
It varies in the Bark which fticks clofe fometimes, in the Leaves which 
are fometimes fmaller, in the Heighth, being fometimes lower, andin the 
Number of the membranous Appendices, which ’tis likely may come from 
the different Age or Soil of the Plants. 
I believe this so be Dr. Plukenet’s Arbafcula vifcof/a, &c. notwithftand- 
ing what he faysin his Mant. p.22. 
It grows at Old- Harbour by the Sea-Side, and on the red Hills going to 
Guanaboa, very plentifully. 
XXI. Aceri aut paliuro affinis Arbor caudice non ramofo, Folijs Sorbi filve- 
firis, floribus pentapetalis racemofis [pectofis purpurets, fructu ficco tribus membra 
nulis extantibus alato, Cat. Fam. p. 138. Ray. Hift. Vol. 3+ Dendr. p. 94. 
Tab. 170. 
The’ Roots of this Tree take hold of the Surface of the Earth. The 
Stem or Truncisabout an Inch Diameter, ftreight, without Branches, or 
undivided, rifing up to Forty Foot high, having no Leaves ’till within 
half a Foor of its Top, after the Manner of the Palms; its Bark is 
fmooth, whitifh, but near the Top round about has the Veftigia or 
Mark of every Leaf fallen off, like thofe on the Stem of Coleworts. The 
Leaves ftand round the Top, being winged and very large, the middle 
Rib being three or four Foot long, whitifh and downy, each of the 
Pinnz or Lobes being fix Inches long and one broad at its Bafe, whence 
it decreafes, ending in a Point; they are foft and hoary. Above the 
Leaves the Top of the Tree is branch’d out into many Twigs fpread on 
every Hand, and fix Foot high, at the End of whofe numerous Stalks 
are many very pleafant pentapetalous Purple Flowers with yellow Stamina 
to which follows a triquetrous, fmooth, membranaceous Bladder. 
It grew very plentitully on the Rivers Sides, amongft the Mountains 
and Rocks near Hope River in Liguanee, : 
XXIL. Evonymo affinis Arbor {pinofa, folio alato, fructu ficco pentagono ¢ 
pentarsrten ligno flavo fantali odore. Cat. Fam. p. 138, Raij. Hift. Vol. 35 
. 70. 1 4b. 172. : 
é This is for Bignefs and Heigth one of the largeft and talleft Trees in the 
Ifland, it has a grey and whitifh colour’d Bark, {mooth only here and there 
along the Trunc, having long obtufe Prickles like Coxcombs ; the Branches 
are forty or more Feet high, and are all befet with fhort, crooked, Prickles : 
theirEnds are thick befet with winged Leaves without anyOrder ; the mid- 
dle Rib is Purple, having a Prickle at every Pinna, Fourteen Inches long ; 
the Pinne fet not juft tho’ near oppofite one to the other, they are each 
two Inches and half long, and about an Inch broad near the Bafe where 
broadeft, of a very dark grafs green Colour, without any Footftalks and 
{mooth, having no odd one at the End; the Ends of the Branches.are 
feveral, two Inches long Twigs fet on every Hand witha multifiliquous 
five corner’d, green, Fruit, each Seétion or Corner containing an almoft 
round, black, fhining, Seed, as big as a great Pin’s Head, ftanding naked. 
halfout ofa green Husk. The greater Spurs or Prickles on the Trunc of 
this Tree when beaten offat the Bafe, fmell not unpleafantly, fomething. © 
like yellow. Sanders. | 
; i grows every where in the lower Lands of this Ifland and Bar-. | 
adoes. a 
Ligon. p. 14. tells us it grows in Cape Verde Ifles and Barbadoes. pe 4le 
whtre tis good Timber, and p. 73. that. "tis good for Ufes withia. 
dofs 3 . ge 
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