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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
t grows in the fame Places with the former. 
te Te call’d Loblolly in Barbadoes is, as I believe, hereafter de-. 
{crib’d, tho’ Dr. Plakenet, p.18. of his Mantiffa, takes this to be it. 
XXVI. Mali folio arbor, artemifia odore, flore pentapetalo fpicato. Cat. Fam. 
p- 139. Raij. Dendr. Vol. 3.p. 17. Tab. 174. Fig. i. ; ; 
This Tree rifeth to twenty or thirty Foot high, its Trunc is as big as 
one’s Thigh, having a white Wood cover’d with a brown dark colour’d 
almoft fmooth Bark ; the Branches grow ftreight up, having a great ma- 
ny Leaves, almoft like thofe of an Apple Tree, ftanding without any 
Order, on half Inch brown Footftalks ; they are three Inches long, two 
broad at the Bafe, where broadeft, of a dark green Colour, and {mooth. 
The Flowers are a great many, ftanding round the Ends of the Branches 
on fcaly Inch long Spikes, making in all a Panicle; they are whitifh, and 
confilt of feveral white Stamina ftanding round a Stylus of the fame Co. 
Jour, and having five, fcarce difcernible white Villofe, or woolly Leaves 
underneath, like to a Perianthium, which fmells, when rub’d, extreamly 
fweet, and fomething like thofe of Mugwort, as do alfo the Leaves and 
all Parts of this Plant. 
It grows in a Wood between the Town Savanna, and Two Mile Wood, 
XXVI. Mali folio arbor artemifie odore & flore, Cat. Yam. p. 129. Rai. 
Hift. Vol. 3. Denar. p. 17. Tab, ih Fig. 2. a Pees 2-13.90 q 
This Tree was in every Thing like the preceeding, only the Bark of the 
Twigs was more white and odoriferous; the Flowers came not in Pani- 
cles but Spikes of about an Inch and a half long, and were made up of 
feveral Flowers flanding one over another, each being made up of five 
large and long cia mck : 
I do not exa remember where I found this, but think j 
far from the Pow ot St. Fago de la Vega, : Benne .00t 
AXVITL. Spiree congener fpinofa, folio Jubrotundo acuminato integro, pulegig 
odove, fructu parvo oblongo, cannulato, coronato, Cat. Fam. p.i 39. Rat He 
Vol. 3. ee i Maas 174. Fig. 3 & 4. “igs 
‘This Shrub has often feveral Stems coming from the fame ! 
which is no bigger than a Goofe Quill, oa ars nee sae 
black Colour, rifing three, or fometimes fix Foot high, flender, and 
wanting the Neighbourhood of a ftronger Plant to fupport ‘it; the Twigs 
are many, going out of oppofite Sides of the Stalks, having fharp Prickleg 
one third of an Inch long, and Leaves ftanding on one eighth of an Inch 
long Footftalks, oppofite to one another, at one third of an Inch’s diftance 
about haif an Inch diameter, a little pointed at the Ends, and almoft 
round, of a yellowifh green Colour, {mooth, fomething like thofe of 
Nammularia, but very ftrong fcented like Pulegium. The Flowers come 
at the Top, being fmall, pentapetalous, many together, {tanding in a 
pentaphylious Calix, of the Colour, and fomewhat refembling thofe of 
Spiraea Theophrafti, tho’ not fo clofe fet, nor fo handfome being in aras 
sane Raach, or Umbel, and to them follow many fmall oblong channel’d 
: aa ai or s,or rather dry Fruit, with fome Foliloa, or the Calix ftanding 
It grows in Cut Throat Gully near Black River Brid 
the woody Savanza’s about the Town of $+. Fage de nee aoa) of 
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