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and fmooth. The Fruit comes on the End of the Twigs, being a Stalk or 
String, on which grow feveral fmooth, green, roundifh Berries, bigger 
than Peas, faften’d to it by an half Inch long Footftalks, at its era 
Side, having a brown five leav’d Calix or Crown encompaffing it. The 
Pulp is fweet, white, mealy, including a hard, brownifh, black Stone; big. 
gerthan a Pepper-Corn, and much like it. a lar 
_Itgrew néar Mr. Elletfon’s Plantation on the Savanna in Ligwanee, in 
Sixtecn-Mile- Walk, ee. and in Barbados. 
The Berries are ripe in Auguff, then fall off the Trees, under 
which they are gather’d and catried to Market, being eaten and thought 
a pleafant Difert. aos . 
_ Reid, a Gardiner fent to Barbados for Plants, relates, that this Tree bore 
Pods good to eat, but fure he was miftaken. | 
I am doubtful whether this Tree be meant by Ligom. p. 14. to be found 
in Cape Verd. Iles, or p. 33 and 74, where he fays, thatthe Nuts of 
Locuft feed Swirie in Barbados, that the Trees are fifty Foor high, three 
foot and a half Diameter, of clofe Timber, hard, bets but lafting : 
It being not unlikely that thefe may be the Carob or fome filquofe’ 
Treé. 
XXKVI. Bascifera arbor calyculata, folijs integris oblongis atuminatis, fractu 
rufefcente. Cat. Fam. p. 165.1 ab. 198. Fig. 3. Ray Hie Val. 3. Denar.p. 49. 
This Tree had many woody crooked Branches, cover’d witha light 
colour’d, brown, grey, fmooth Bark, and having a white Wood. At the 
Ends of the Twigs are many Leaves, {tanding on a quarter of an Inch 
long Footftalks, about an Inch and a half long, and one broad in the Mid- 
dle, where broadeft, being narrow at the Beginning and End, tho’ fome- 
times they are blunt at their Ends, or fomewhat roundifh, fmoorh, with- 
out any Incifures on the Edges. The Fruit comes at the Top of the 
Twigs, being a fmall roundifh cornet’d Berry, many of them together, 
bigger than that of the Elder, or as big as a Pepper Corn, ftanding on a 
{mall quarter of an Inch long petiolus, at the End of which is 4 {mall Calix 
incompaffing the Bottom of each Berty, which is reddifh, having in a 
{lender Pulp, feveral fmall irregularly figur’d Acint, like thofe of Grapes. 
It gtew towards the North Side of thisIffand. | 
It appears plain that it is different from the precedent Baftard Locutt- 
Tree, tho” Dr. L/ukenet, p. 119 of his MantifJ¢ makes them the fame. 
XXVII. Arbor baccifers, laurifolia, axomatica, frauf¥u viridi calyculato rac 
cemofo. Cat. Fam. p. 165. Tab. 191. Fig, 2. Phil. Tranfatt. No. 192. p. 465- 
Cafia lignea Famadicenfis, Laureole folsjs [ubcinereis, cortéce piperts modo acrt. 
Pluken. Almag. p89. Caffia lignea laurifolia Americana cortice albo, valde 
acri Ge avomatico: Fjufd. Caffia Cinamomes §. Cinamomum filveftre Barbaden- 
fium, arbor baccifera fructu Calyculato rerratyrent fe enerut Pfeudo Caffia 
Cinamomea Americana, Ejufd. Almag. p. 89. Caffia Amsericana {purta Silfilis 
dicta. Herm, parad. Bat. pr. p.320- Canelle blanche, coftus blanc, coftus corti- 
cofus & ecorce de Wintherus de Pommet. p. i30. Bow de Canelle. Ejufd. p. 195. 
Cortex Winter anus-Tree, or, Cinamon-Tree: 
This Tree has a Trunc the Thicknefs of the Calf of one’s Leg, rifing 
to about 20 or 30 Foot high, having many Branches and Twigs hanging 
downwards, making a very comely ‘Top, The Bark is made of one ourwar i 
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