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The Natural ‘Alaftory of JAMAICA, 
XLV. Nerium ‘arooreum altifimum, folio angufto, flore albo, Cat. Fam.p. 
154. Razj. Vol. 3, Dendr. p. 114. Parad. Bat. p.49. Apocynum Americanum fri- 
tefcens longiffimo folio flore albo odorato, Commel. Hort. Am}. Part, alter. p. 
47- Plumeria flore niveo, folijs longis angulls & acuminatis. Tournef. Inft. p. 
659. Plum, pl. Am. p. 20... 
Lhe Wild Fafmin Tree. 
This Treeiis the fame with the former, only much larger, it ‘hath 
narrower Leaves, and white Flowers. 
T found itiplentifully in the Woods:of Ligwanee in Famaica. 
XLVI. Neriam arboreum folio latiore obtufo, flore luteo minore. Cat. Jam. 
p. 154. Tab. 186. Fig. 2. | 
This Tree has a Trunc as thick as one’s Leg, cover’d ‘with a whitifh 
colour’d almolt fmooth Bark, rifing to about fitteen Foot high, and fending 
out long crooked Branches having likewife ‘a whitifh colour’d Bark, and 
at their Ends Leaves ftanding on Inch long Footftalks, being four Inches 
Jong and twoand.a half broadin the Middle, where broadeft, of a very 
dark .green Colour, fmooth, fhining, having one Middle and feveral 
stanfverfe Ribs. Ex als Foliorum, come the Flowers on branch’d 
crooked Petiola, one quarter of an Inch ‘tong, being yellow, pentapera- 
dous as if they were twilted about, having a halt Inch long Tubulas, 
and fmelling very {weet ; to thele follow two long Pods, fork’d like Horns, 
as in the other Oleanders. 
It grows under the Townvef St. Fago de lz Vega, by the Banks of the 
Rio Cobre. 
XILVIL. Nervio affinss arbor filiquofa folio palmato feu digitato flore alba: 
Cat. Fam. p. 154. Razj. Ait. Vol. 3. p. 114. Pfewdo apocynum femine compreffa 
cy alato erettum Barbadienfe, lignuam album Barbadienfe dittam. Bobare. Morif. 
Ox. p. 612. An pfeudoapocynum, &c. Fameaicenfe feminibus minoribus alates.albis. 
Fijufd.ib, sn Bignonia Americana arbonefcens. Pentaphyla flore rofeo major 
filiquis planis, Plum, Tournef. Inft. p. 165° pl. Amer. p, 5? 
White Wood. 
This Tree is as large as any of this Ifland, having a very great fireighit 
Trunc cover’d witha fmooth whitith Bark, under which is its very hard 
Wood, whichis white, the Leaves.are digitated, or finger’d, having three 
‘or four Inches long Footftalks, from the Ends of which, as from a-com- 
wmon Center, ftand feveral long, narrow Segments, or Leaves, being cut 
an quite to the very End of ‘the Footftalk, each whereof is {mooth, and of 
a very dark green Colour, of an equal Breadth for almoft their whole 
‘Length. ‘The Leaves fall-off for fome Weeks, and then the Flowers come 
‘outel the Ends of the Twigs, feveral together, ftanding on an Inch long 
Footfalk, each whereof is very large, white, monopetalous Difform, 
like thofe of Ssramorucum, and fall.of very {oon after ; they are very open, 
and to'them fuceeeds a five or’fix Inches long fquarePod, with feveral emi- 
nent Lines on its Surface, of a brownifh Colour, within which lie‘many 
‘Seeds,: refembling. thofe of Ae#inm, to which I reckon this ‘Tree is ve- 
sy ai of _ iy Hn toe | 
t grows in the low Lands by the Rivers Sides. bythe: Sea Sidevn Te 
waica, Barbados, and the Caribes. Ma Nides, bpsche Bon Biden J 
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