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The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIC A. 
For the Trees with Cazella Leaves, tho’ I have heard greatyMen have 
reckon’d them Kinds of the Cé/Pws, yet confidering their Flowers are not 
fpecious, nor Fruits like thofe of the Ciffus, 1 hope I fhall. not be 
condemn’d if I reckon them a differing Kind of Trees from thofe of 
that Family. | 
I. Myrtus arborea Aromatica folijs laurinis. Cat. Jam, p. 151. Tab. £74. 
Fig 1- Raij. Dendr. p. 33. Vol. 3+ Phil. Tranf. No.1 92. p.462. Porvrede la 
Famaique des Anglo, Amemi des Hollandows, fruit de bois a’ Inde, graine de 
girofle du Vulgaire Pommet. p. 121. An ytaiperequa laurus Michuacanen(is Her- 
nand. p.98? Affourou Arbor- regia aromatica Ind, daphnogarioph sllon vulgo 
bois @ Inde Surian. An Myrtus folijs laurinis, baccis e ceruleo nigris, Plum. 
pi. Am. p. 18 ? 
Piementa, Famaica Pepper, or All-Spice-Tree. 
This Tree has a Trunc as thick as ones Thigh, rifing ftreight up about 
thirty Foot high, cover’d with an extraordinary fmooth Skin, of a grey 
Colour, and branch’d out on every Hand, having the Ends of its Twigs 
fer with Leaves of feveral Sizes, the larger being four or five Inches 
long, and two or three broad in the Middle, where broadeft, and whence 
they decreafe ro both Extremes, ending in a Point, {mooth, thin, shining, 
of a deep green Colour, and ftanding on an Inch long Footftalks, when 
bruis’d, very odoriferous, and in all things like the Leaves of a Bay- 
Tree. The Ends of the Twigs are branch’d out into many two Inches long 
Footftalks, fuftaining fomany Flowers, every one whereof is made up 
ofa great many whitifh green Stamina, ftanding within four very fmall 
Petala refle€ted downwards, of the fame Colour. To that follows many 
crown’d or umbilicated Berries, (the Crown being made up of four {mail 
Foliola, or Leaves) at firft, when {mall greenith, but when ripe, larger 
than Juniper Berries, being black, fmooth ‘and fhining, containing in 
a wet, greenifh, Aromatick and biting Pulp, two large Acini, feparated 
by a Membrane lying between them, each whereof is a Hemifphere, and 
both making a Globe, or perfeétly round, appearingly one Acinus, whence 
Clafivs makes it one Seed divifible into two Parts. oo 
It grows on the hilly Parts of this Ifland, but chiefly in the North- 
fide thereof, and now is left ftanding, when other Trees are fell’d, and 
planted in feveral Plantations, becaufe of the Protit from the cured Fruit 
{ent in great Quantities yearly into Exrope, 
It flowers in Fane, Fuly and Auga/t, but-in feveral Places fooncr or 
later, according to their Situation and different Seafon for Rains, and 
after if flowers the Fruit foon ripens ; but ’tis to be obferv’d, that in 
clear’d open Grounds, ’tis fooner ripe than in thick Woods. | 
The Leaves are very much made Ufe of in Baths for ‘Hydropick Legs, 
oc. by the Indians, Negroes and Surgeons, and may be fubltituted 
wherever Bay Leaves are thought ufetul, they refembling them in 
every thing. | 7 | 
There isno great Difficulty in the Curing or Preferving of this Fruit.for 
ufe. The Negroes and Indians climb fome Trees, ‘cut down orhers, 
and pulloff the Twigs with the unripe green Fruit, which ate f{epara- 
ted from the ‘I'wigs, Leaves, and ripe Berries, gnd are afterwards {pread 
on Cloths expos’d to the Sun, from it’s Rifing to it’s Setting fot Many 
Days, whereby they become dry, rugofe, and from a green, change toa 
brown Colour, and then are fit for the Market, where ’tis ufually fold 
at Eighteen Pence the Pound in the Beginning of the Seafon,°and at one 
Shilling the whole Year after. The 
