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I could find no Difference between this and ames Reid’s prickly 
red Wood brought from Barbadoes ; the Pinne of which had one middle 
Rib which had a Prickle on its under Part, and I believe this of Sfameica 
hath ic likewife. _ 
It is one of the beft Timber Trees of the Caribe Ifles. Tertre. 
Dr. Plakenet. p. 191. of his Maat. doubts if this be not the fame with 
the Tree defcrib’d before under the Name of Palmro affinis liguftri fee 
Spinofa flore monopetalo difformt fructu ficco fubrotando. How juftly any Body 
may fee who compares their Defcriptions and Figures. 
XXUI. Thymelea facie frutex maritimus tetrafpermos, flore tetrdpetalo, Cat. 
Fam, p. 138. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. p. 96. Tab. 162. Fig. 4.0 , 
This Shrub rifes to about feven Foot high, has a Stem or T'runc as 
thick as one’s Arm, cover’d with a thin very red brown Bark, and being 
towards its Top divided into feveral Branches, round the Ends of which 
come the Leaves in very great Numbers without any Order, being almoft 
an Inch long, and {carce one tenth of an Inch broad at the further End, 
where broadeft, having no Footftalk. They are very narrow and aug- 
ment to near the Ends, where broadeft, are very thick, fucculent, arid of 
a dirty green Colour. From among thefe Leaves comesa half Inch long, 
crooked, Footftalk, holding down feveral yellow tetrapetalous Flowers, 
within a pentaphyllous green Calix, in which, after the Flower is fallen, 
follows four naked, rough, roundifh brown Seeds, fet very clofe together, 
like thofe of the Cynog/offa. 
It grew on Houfe Cayos, whichisa {mall Ifland off of Port Royal, and 
at the Sea Side in St. Avn’s, near Capt. Draxe’s Plantation very plen- 
cifully. 
XXIV. Verbafci folio minore arbor, floribus {picacis luteis tetrapetalis, fe~ 
minibus fingulis oblongis in fingulis vafculw ficeis. Cat. Fam. p.139. Raij. Hift: 
Vol. 3. Dendr. p.97.Tab, 172. Fig. 1. As Ophioxylon Americanum, folijs 
oblongis mucronatis leviter ferratis, bardane inftar fubtus lanuginofs. Lignum 
Colabeisnim Barbadenfium Snakewood ibi nuncupatum. Pluken, Alm. p. 270. 
Phyt. Tab. 210, Fig. 1. 
This Tree, or Shrub rifes to nine or ten Foot high, having a Trunc 
as thick as one’s Leg, a white fmooth Bark, with feveral Branchies, whofe 
Ends are bow’d down towards the Ground ; the Leaves come out oppofite 
to one another towardsthe Ends of the Branches; they have fcarce any 
Footftalks, are three Inches long, and half as broad, green above and 
white underneath, fomewhat like Viburnum Leaves, The Tops of the 
Twigs are branch’d into feveral Inch long Stalks, every one of which is 
very thick and clofe befet, with many tetrapetalous {mall yellow Flowers, 
which have a pale greenifh Capfula and no Footftalk, and to each 
of which follows an oblong, or oval brown Capfula, which is fill’d with 
a pretty large, brown, Seed of the fame Colour. 
It grows near the Rio Cobres Banks, in moft Gullies in famaica, and 
molt of the Caribe Iflands. 
This feemsto be quite different from the Ophioxylon Americanum folijs 
eblongis mucronatis, &c, Plukenet. 
XXV. Verbafci folio majore odorata arbor, floribus pentapetalis albis. Cat. 
Jam. p.139. Raj. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 97. Tab. 173. 
_ [his Tree feem’d to be the fame in every thing with the Precedent, only 
the Leaves are fix Inches long, and as broad. Its Flowers are white, and 
pentapetalous, with yellow Stamina, and the Leaves have a very ftrong, 
Smell: It 
