The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA, 
3a 
{ do not remember the particular Place of the Ifland of ‘famaica 
where { found this Tree. | 
This comes very near in many things to the Tree defcrib’d under 
the Name of <Avonymos flore colutee, Clus, rar. Plant. hiftor. p. 105. 
It is alfo in many things like the Kodatsjari. H. M. tab. 67. p. 13%. 
which is called by Commelyn Portulace folijs fimilis Planta, flore ilbe galea 
ato @ labiato femine oblongo, rotundo, ruffo, fufco colore. 
The Figure and Magnitude of this Tree fhew it to be different from 
the Polygala frutefcens major folio buxi Mentzel, tho’ Dr, Plukenet, p. 153» 
6f his Mantiffa fufpetts it may be the fame. 
IV. Cytifus arborens, folijs obtufis glabris, folio um prediculis alatis. Cat. 
fam. p. 14t- Lab. 176. Fig. 1. Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. p. 473- 
This Tree ltas feveral Truncs each as big as one’s Leg, rifing together, 
cover’d with a fmooth,Cinamon colour’d Bark, ftreight, eight or nine Foot 
high, the Branches rifing upright, are all round befet with Leaves, coming 
out at an Inch’s Interval, three always together, all taking their Origin ac 
theEnd of an Inch long, green,common Footftalk,a little foliofe or flat,with 
extant narrow Alz, each of which are an Inch long, half as broad near 
the further End, where broadeft, and round, beginning narrow and aug- 
rnenting to the Extremity, being ofa yellowifh green Colour,very {mooth, — 
having one Middle and fome tranfverfe Ribs. kate 
I found it by the River’s Side under the Town, and on the Red Hills 
very plentifully. 
Dr. Plukenet is miftaken, p.63. of his Mantiffa. where he thinks this 
may be the fame with his Cytifws Procumbens Americanus flore luteo ramo- 
filfimus, qut anil [uppeditat apud nonlen he Colonos. Phytogr. Tab. 86. 
Fig, 2. Alm. p. 129. This being quite different. 
V. Cytifus arboreus bituminofus, hedere folijs nom angulofis. Cat. pe t4te 
Tab. 177. Raij. Hift, Vol. 3 A7 2. 
This Tree had a white hard Wood cover’d With a fmooth grey Bark, 
both being very odoriferous, and fmelling like to Bitumen, having here 
and there Leaves plac’d on their Branches without any Order, but moftly 
ftanding againft one another, being always three on the fame comnion 
Inch long Footftalk, each of them being about an Inch long and thre¢ 
uarters of an Inchbroad in the Middle, where broadeft, and whence 
they decreafe to both Ends, where they are fharp; they are {mooth on 
their Surface, and each refembles the younger Leaves of Ivy before they 
row corner'd. What the Flower and Seeds were I know not, but by 
iig three Leaves growing togetlier, I conjeture this to be its true Place. 
It grew on the Red Hills among the Woods. 
This is quite differing from the Lacsnum arbor tilia folijs minoribus Ame- 
ricanum. Pluk. Phyt. Tab, 20%. Fig 3. tho’ the Dr. p. 120, of his Maz- 
_ tiffa, thinks it may be the fame. 
VI. Crotalaria trifolia fraticofa, folijs glabris, flore e viridi luteo minore. 
Cat. p. 141+ Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. p. 465. 1 ab. 178. Fig. 1. An Crotalaria Ame- 
ricana trifolia rotunda glabra. Herm. Par. Bat. pr. p- 329? An Crotalaria frus 
qe Americana, triphylla folijs firmiorchus glabris flore purpureo. Pluk. Phyt. 
1Q-7. , 
‘This Shrub has a pretty large Root divided into three or four Branches, 
abour two Inches long, of a reddifh Colour. The Stalk, or Trunc is as 
big asone’s Thumb, itreight, three or four Foot high, having an almoft 
i {mooth 
