— 
“The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
Parts of the Balfam-Tree, were thofe of the Terebinthus, or Lentifcus, as 
Lobel fays, to which they come very near in moft Parts. 
A Brother Jefuit who had travel’d much, told me that he found a2 
Tree bearing Pepper inthe Deferts of famaica. fof. Acofta. 
The Wood is hard, the’Leaves are broader than thofe of Laurel, and it 
bears a kind of bay Berry. The Leaves are us’d in Sauces. Tertre. And for _ 
Tumours in the Legs after malignant Fevers. Rochef. 
This Pepper Tree hath in all Things its Flower and Berry like the Ivy 
Berry, and thofe Berries are Grains of Pepper, fo that when they gather 
them shey are green, then they lay them in the Sun, where they become 
black,and grow without Labour. Frederick ap.Hakl. p. 242. and Fitch. ib. P- 
265. both fi eaking of the common Black Eaft India Pepper ; and ’tis obfer- 
vable that Pliay takesNotice that Myrtle Berries were us’d as black Pepper 
now is, before the Difcovery of this laft Spice. 
The Leaves fupply the Place of Cinamon, Cloves and Mace in Barbados, 
Ligone 
The Difference of the Leaves in Dr. Plwkenet’s Figure and Clufizs’s from 
mine ia the Philofophical Tranfactions and here, may proceed only from a 
Variety from the different Age, or Soil of the Trees, notwithftanding 
what Dr. Plakewet fays in his Mant. p. 39. 
YJ. Myrtus arborea inodora, folijs latis fubrotundis, flore albo fruttu 
monopyreno. Car, Jam. p. 162. Raij, Tom. 3. Dendr. p. 35. Tab, 192. 
Fig, 2. | 
“This Tree has a great many deep Roots, fmall, ftreight, and cover’d 
with a grey-colour’d Bark; the Trunc is as big as one’s Arm, ftreight, 
fifteen Foot high, and cover’d with a Clay-colour’d Bark, having crooked 
Branches hanging down, the Twigs whereof are fet oppofite to one ano- 
ther, as are on them the Leaves, being exaétly like thofe of Myrtus Lati- 
folia Belgne, C. B. Pin. The Flowers come out Ex 4lis Foliorum, feveral to- 
gether, itanding on half Inch long, green Footftalks, each whereof is white 
and tetrapetalous, with many white Stamina in the Middle. The Berries are 
like thofe of Myrtle, round, black, umbilicated, or crown’d, and of the Big- 
nefs of a large Pea, having in them a pretty thick greenifh Pulp, and one 
roundifh Stone like that of a Cherry. | oe 
It grew on a Gully’s Sides in a Wood between the Town of St. Fago de 
la Vega, and Two Mile Wood. | | 
ILI. Myrti folio arbor cortice argentea folijs oblongis ad bafin latioribys 
acumtnatis, inodorts, ex adverfo fitis, flore pentapetaloide pallide albicante. 
Cat, Jam, p. 162. Tab. 187. Fig.3. Raij, Hift. Vol. 3.7.35. dn Myrti Species 
Ameritana ¢% Veracruce, C7, par. he, pr. Pp: 355 Myrtho layrifolio funilis 
Americana. Hort, Beaum. p. 30. AnLance-Wood of Dampier, cap. 5? An 
Arbor Americana baccifera Myrtifolia viminalibus V. ings, feu flagellifera major 
Barbadenfibus rodwood ditta, Pluken, Tab. 139. Fiz. 6? Arbor Brafiliana 
myrtt lauree folijs inodoris. Commel. Hort. Ante pe 193. pT Ajith a 
Silver Wood. 
This Tree rifeth ftreight up, to about twenty Foot high, it has an 
almoft {mooth grey Bark, with fome very white Spots on it, whence the 
Name ; the Trunc is no thicker than one’s Leg, undivided to the very 
lop, where the Branches are {pread on every Side, the Leaves come out 
of the Twigs by Pairs, fer oppolite ane ro the other, having very fhore, or 
no Pootttalks, they are {mooth, very thin, of a yellowith green Colour, an 
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