The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
_ VIN. Myrto affinis arbor, folijs laurinis, flore albo tetrapetalo odorato. Cat; 
“fam, p. 162. Ray. Vol. 3. Dendr. P» 36. Tab. 193. Fig. 2. An arbor Americana 
Myrtt Betice latifolia facie aromatica. Pluken. Mant. p. 25°? 
This Tree rifes to ten Foot high, its Bark is {mooth, afh-colour’d, having 
ts lop bow’d down, the Branches Ends are befet with feveral Leaves 
itanding on fhore Footftalks oppofite to one another, four Inches long and 
two broad in the Middle, where broadeft, fmooth, of a frefh green Co- 
lour, baving no Smell, and being very like Bay or Laurel Leaves. The 
Yiowers come out of the Branches oppofite to the Leaves, they are feveral, 
{tanding on the fame branch’d Foorftalk, tetrapetalous, with many Stamina 
both of a white Colour and fmelling very {weet. I never faw the Fruit. 
it grew in a Gullie beyond Troopers-Quarters near the Town of St, 
Jago de la vega. 
VIN. Loti arbcris folio anguftiore, rubt fore, frutta polyfpermo umbilicato, 
Cat. Jam. p. 162. Ray Hift. Vol. 3. Denar. P: 32. Tab. 194. Fig. 1. An Mef> 
pilus Americana alnt vel coryli folijs, fructu Mucagtnofo albo. Commel. Hors. 
wlin(l. p.155 2? Calabura alba. Par, Bat pr. Herm ? 
This Tree has a’Trunc as large as ones Thigh, cover’d with an almoft 
{mooth, reddifh brown Bark, and branch’d towards the Top into feveral 
Branches, rifing thirty Foot high; the Twigs are fet alternatively, 
with Leaves at a quarter of an Inch’s Diftance, they have yellowifh, 
hoary, one tenth of an Inch long Footftalks, and are two Inches long, 
and half as broad at the lower Side, hoary and indented about ie 
Edges , ofa dark green Colour above, very like the Leaves of theLotus Ar- 
bor, only narrower, foft and vifcid. The Flowers ftand ad alas foliorum, on 
half Inch long Footftalks ; they are pentapetalous, white, with yellow 
Stamina, like a Bramble Flower; to them follows an umbilicated Fruit 
as bigas a Cherry, firft green and containing:in a Pulp a great many 
{mall, round, whitifh Seeds. 7 
It grows goiig to the Ferry near the Crawle, and by Colonel Cope’s 
Flantation. 
IX. Loti arboris folio angustiffimo arbor baccifera racemofa frattu minimo 
croceo monopyreno. Cat. Fam. p. 163. . An falvtfolia arbor Orientalis, folijs 
tenuiffime crenatss. Pluken. Phyt. Tab. 221. Fig. 4. Alm. 329? 
This Tree rifeth to about fifteen Foot high, having a fmooth, reddifh, 
light brown Bark, a (treight Trunc a3 thick as ones Leg, and fevera} 
Branches f{pread towards the Top. The Twigs have Leaves at ever 
half Inch’s Diftance, coming out alternatively on each Side of the Twig, 
they ftand on an eighth of an Inch long Footftalk, are two Inches long and 
half as broad near the Bafe or End next the Footftalk, where 
broadeft, being rough, dark green coloured, froma broad Bafe ending in 
a Point, ferrated, and having Veins taking their Beginning from the 
Foortalks End and middle Rib, running thro’ all the Parts of the Leaf, 
which in every thing refembles thofe of the Lotu: Arbor only it is narrower, 
Ex alis foliorum come the Flowers ; they are very {mall, greenifh and 
pentapetalous, and to them fucceed on 8th of an Inch long crooked Foor-. 
italks, three or. four fmall Orange colour’d Besries, as big as a {mall Piu’s 
Head, almoft oval, infipid, having a. fimall Orange colour’d Pulp and 
within it one {mall,. black, round Seed. 
it grew on the Banks of Rio Cobre below the Town of St. Fago deta Vega 
on the fame Side, of the River on Sixteen-Mile- Walk Path, near Seven 
Mile- Walk, and in the Woods by the Road going to Gwanaboz. 
Se Pericly. 
