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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
‘There is another Variety of this with longer Leaves. 
Ir grew on the woody Hills between Guanaboa and Colonel Bourden’s 
Plantation, on Mount Diablo, and the other Inland, woody Hills of 
this Ifland. 
‘The Berries give a Juice like Myrtles, and are eaten by the Blacks. The 
j.caves powder’d and fprinkled on Ulcers, coming from a hot Caufe, 
cure them. Marcgr._ : | 
They extra&t a Soap out of the Berries to wafh Cloaths, Pifo. But 
how this is done he doth not tell, 
Not only the Powder of the Leaves but the Juice is good for il!-natur’d, 
hot Ulcers, and therefore much fought after by Surgeons, P¢/o. 
XXIII. Grofularie fruttu non fpinofa, Malabathri folijs fubtus nivers ruc 
te racemofo in umbela modune difpofito. Cat. Fam. p. 165. Tab. 198. Fig. 1. 
Raij. Hiff. Vol. 3. Aes é 26. 
I have nothing to add to what I have faid of this, p. 40 of my Voy- 
age to Jamaica prefix’d to the firft Volume of this Hiftory. 
XXIV. Groffularie fruttu majore arbor [pinofa, frattu foliofo e viridi albie 
cante. Cat. Fam. p. 165. Raij. 3 Vol. Hist. Dendr. p. 27. Malus Americana 
won [pinofa portulace folio, fruttu foliofo, femine rentformst [plendente, Blade 
Apple vulgo. Commel. Hort. Amft. p. 135, Pereskia acalests, flore albo fratta 
fravefcente. Plum, pl. Am. p. 3 
This Tree had the Face of a Rhamnus with many Prickles coming out 
éf the fame Placé of the Trunc in Tufts, fome longer, fome fhorter, and 
a Fruit about the Bignefs of a Wallnut, oval, whitifh green, fmooth, with 
Tufts of fmall Leaves onit. It had a whitifh, mucilaginous, foft Pulp, 
with Acini within it, liké Goofeberies. The whole Tree was about fifteen 
Foot high and well fpread. | 
It grew near the old Monaftery Ruins by the Town of St. Sfago de /a 
Vega whether naturally or planted I know ndt, but I never faw but that 
one Tree. 
It was brought from the Ifland Margarita to Amfterdam. Commel. 
Dr, Plakenet doubts, p. 4. of his Mantiffa if this be the wv crifpa Amen 
ricana, Pif: p. 242.6 p. 155. confounds this with the Portulaca /pinofa 
lanuginofa arborefcens Americana. P.B.app, and hisPortulaca Americana latifolia 
ad Fobiorum ortum lanugine obdutta longéovibus aculeis horrida, phyt. Tabs 245 
Fig. 6. Alm, p. 304. which muft be vaftly different from it. - 
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od, 
XXV. Bascéfera arbor calyculata folijs laurinis fructe raccimefo efcalento fub- 
rotundo monopyreno pallide luteo. Cat, din, p- 165. Tab. 198. Fig. 2. Raije 
Hift, Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 49. An Locus {puria punitatis folijs, arbor Americas 
na frucku parvo pruniforms officulo fulcato. Pluk. phyt. Tab. 200. Fig. 6? Alm, 
p. 225° Vel an Lotus arbor Virginiana folijs levibus fruttu flavefcente. Ej. ib ? 
Lotus arbor Virginians frudku rubre. Raij, Hift. app. p. Qe 
lio glabro froctu rubro Sch, Bot. p. 287 27 ft. app. po 1917? Lotus arbor fa 
The Bastard Locuft-Tree. 
This Tree has a very thick Trunc, cover’d witha fmooth, clay co- 
lout’d Bark, having Branches equally fpread round about it, which to- 
wards their Ends are befet with Leaves ftanding on a quarter of an 
inch long Footftalks, being five Inches long and half as broad in the Mid- 
dic, where broadeft, ending in a Point ; they are of a dark gteen Colour 
and 
