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onthe Stalk, they are three pointed, about two Inches and a half long 
and as broad at the Bafe, of a pale and yellowifh green Colour, having 
one middle and feveral tran{verfe Ribs, being very like the Leaves of the 
Coral Tree. At the Tops of the Branches are fix Inch long Spikes of 
Flowers, plac’d at one quarter of an Inch’s diftance, ftanding on one 
eighth of an Inch Footftalk ; each of them is an Inch and half long, tubu- 
lous made up of onecurioufly colour’d f{carlet Petalon, inclofing feveral 
pale, red, Inch long Stamina, in the Middle of which isa greenifh Sty- 
lus, which in time comes to be a Pod, two or three Inches long ventriofe, 
ita between the Peas, and larger over them, inclofing two or three 
eas. 
it grew from a Palifado brought out of the Woods, and fix’d ina Gar- 
ap Hedge at Mr. Canning’s Houfe, in the Town of St. Jago de la 
eg a. 
XII. Coral Arbor Polyphylla non fpinofa fraxini folio, filiqua alis foliaceis 
extantibus, rote molendinarte fluviatilis, vel feminum laferpitij infkar auéta. 
Cat, Fam. p. 143. Tab. 176. Fig. 4 and 5. Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 108. 
AnPhafeolis accedens Coral arbor polyphyllos folijs durioribus glabris non {pinofc. 
Plukenet Alm. p. 293? Phyt. Tab. 214. Fig.4? An Toulonimibi vimen 
fruticofum coronarium {picatum purpureum femine alato ad pifces inebriandum 
furian ? Corako dendron Americanum fraxtni folijs Plam. Tournef. Inft. p. 662. 
pt. Am p. 21. 
Dog-Wo0d Tree: 
This Tree has a Trtific Twenty five Foot high, ftreight, having a Bark 
almoft fmooth like that of anAfh, with feveral white, large, a is ON it; it 
is as big as ones Middle; the Wood is white and a little ftinking, the 
Branches and Twigs are many, and altogether bare about the Month of 
December, but in ‘fanuary or February they are all cover’d over with Blof- 
foms, neither Leaves nor Fruit appearing; they are Papylionaceous of 
a dirty white Colour with an Eye of Purple, the Petala of which are not 
wide open’d, but lie clofe to one another, to each of which fucceeds 
the Fruit or Pod two Inches long, having four thin, brown, Membranes 
half an Inch broad, ftanding out on every Hand, the Length of the 
Fruit, like the Sails of a Windmill, or the membranaceous Appendices 
of the Seeds of erie Cogs, and within a fungous, brown, as ic were 
jointed Matter, lie five or fix Seeds or Peafe, whitifh, quadragular and 
oblong. When the Fruit is ripe, come the Leaves, wing’d like thofe 
of the Afh-tree, the Pinnx are two Inches long and one broad, faften’d 
to the middle Rib, being oppofite one to another, with an odd one at 
the End, and are, forthe moft Part, feven in Number. 
This Tree grows every where inthe Savanna’s or Low-land Woods. 
The Bark of this Tree {tamp’d and thrown inta a ftanding Pool where 
Fifh are, intoxicates them for fome Time, they turning their Bellies 
up, and coming above Water, but if they are not prefently caught, 
they come to themfelves and recover. I have been told that the like Pho:- 
nomenon happens if quick Lime be ufed the fame Way. _ 
The Indians and Negro’s make Ufe of this Bark to take Fifh, efpecially 
in deep Holes in inland Rivers, when there is no Current but the moft 
Part of the Rivers are dry, only fome deep Holes or Pools, whither the 
Fifh retire for their own Safety. The Fifh caught after this Man- 
ner, are counted very wholefome and good Food. 
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