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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
is contain’d one Pea, in all four or five, being green and foft, inclos’d 
ina white Pulp. The inward mucilaginous Membrane of the Pod is of a 
fcarlet Colour ; the Pod opens of its felf and its Contents are much 
coveted by Ants. This Pod hangs to the Tree bya two Inches long 
Footftalk, and is fmall at the further End. | 
It grows on each fide of the Road between Paffage-Fort and Town, 
and in the moft woody Parts of the Town Savanna in Famaica and in 
Barbades. 
XLIL. Ceratonia affinis arbor filiquofa olea folio, flore tetrapetalo albido, 
filiqua tereti ventriofa, cujus interior tunica eft mucofa én eleganter mipiatas 
Cat. Fam. p.153- Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr, p- 100. Ap falix ee eelere lon- 
gilfimis argenteis & acutis folijs Americana. Plukenet. Tab. 327, Fig.6 § Alm, p. 
28° An Ceratia cariofa Caribearum, fodiculis teretibus tuberofis, cortice fori 
ex fufco rube[cente [cabro, intus miniato, mali citret femine. ejufd. Mant. p. 44 ? 
An Cynophallophoros mucronatis folijs folliculis clavatis ex uno pediculo binis. 
Pluk, Phyt.Tab. 172. Fig, 5? Alm. p.127? An Breynia Eleagni folijs Plum. 
pl. Am. p. 40? 
This Tree rifeth to about thirty Foot high, having a Trunc as thick 
as ones Thigh, and an afh-colour’d, fmooth Bark, a pleafant Top by 
its Branches and Twigs being fpread on every Hand; the Leaves are 
many, placed without any Order, each having one quarter ofan Inch long 
Footftalk ; they are three Inches long, one broad inthe middle where 
broadeft, fmooth, of a dark green Colour above, and underneath 
whitifh, having one principal Rib, and being very like the Leaves of 
the Olive-Tree; the Flowers come at the Ends of the Branches, are 
tetrapetalous and of a white Colour, and to them follow hanging fa- 
{ten’d to the Branch, by an Inch long Footftalk, three Inches long, 
ruffet Pods, round, bigger than a Swans Quill, having here and there 
Eminences over the Peas within, or being ventriofe; the Peas are a- 
bout fix in Number, foft, and lodg’d in a fcarlet colour’d Pulp, befides 
which, the inward Membrane of the Pods is fcarlet and foft, and 
both it and the Peas are very much coveted by Ants. Thefe Pods 
by the Help of the Heat of the Sun, twift open themfelves, fhew their 
{carlet infide, and let drop their Peas, 
It grows in Famastca in the Woods between Paffage- Fort and the Town, 
and in the Savanna’s about the Town of St. Fago de la Vega. 
Without doubr this is the Salix Arbor folliculifera obtufis folijs candi- 
cantibus Americana, Pluken, Phyt. Tab. 221. Fig. 1. Notwithitanding 
what the Dr. fays. p, 62, of his Mantiffa. 
XUN. Ceratonia affinis filiquofa lauri folio fingulari, flore pentapetaloide 
parpureo ftriato, filiqua craffa brevi pulpa efculenta c purgante femina am- 
biente. Cat. Fam. p. 154. Raij- Hist. Vol. 3: p. 100» Tab 184. An Courbary 
Roches. p. 58? Pluk ? 
The Bichy-Tree. 
Altho’ this Tree was but feven Years old, rais’d from Seed, which was 
brought from Guinea, yet it was twenty Foot high, hada Trunc as 
thick as the Calf of ones Leg, ftreight and round, cover’d .with an 
almoft fmooth, reddifh brown, Bark, with-greyifh or white Spots 
here and there, the. Boughs were {pread on all Hands, thofe lower be- 
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