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The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
Trunc as thick as a Hogfhead or Pipe, cover’d witha brown, red, fmooths 
membranaceous outward Bark, falling off inround Piecesliketothat of the 
Englifh Birch, whence the Name. It hath feveral crooked Branches,mount- 
ing to thirty Foot high, cover’d with a brown, fmoothBark, near the Top of 
which come out feveral two or three Inches long Stalks fuftaining on half 
Inch long Footftalks, feveral Flowers one above another, each made up of 
five thick, yellowifh, fhort Petala, with Stamina in the Middle, and after 
thefe follow three-fided or triangular Berries, of a {mall Pea’s Bignets, 
with a reddifh brown Colour’d Skin, very Gummy, and fmelling like Te- 
rebinthine, under which, lies a white, very hard, triangular Stone, con- 
taining a Kernel, The ‘Tree having ftood naked fome Time has 
firft its Flowers come out, and its Leaves begin to bud a little while 
after, which are wing’d, fmooth, of a very frefh green Colour, 
ftanding round the Ends of the Branches at halfanInch’s Diftance; the 
middle Rib is. five Inches long, hoary,.and fet at an Inch and a half’s Di- 
ftance from the Beginning, with Pairs of Pinne one againft another, on 
a half Inch long Foorftalk, the Pinng are an Inch and a half long, 
and half as broad near the round Bafe,where broadeft, and fhining; there’s 
a {mall odd one at the End, and ufually four Pairor eight, which with 
the odd one make up the Leaf. : 
It grows all over the Ifland, as well as in the Carthes. 
Fernan. Colon {ays that in Cuba theIndians made their Fire of a Tree like 
Lentifc in Leaves and Fruit, only larger, which grew there plentifully, 
and I fuppofe to be this. 
This Tree being wounded yields a Balfam of the Confiftence and Smell 
of Turpentine, which is thought to be very vulnerary and healing, 
The Balfam is'taken m Cotton. Laet.. > ~ iid 
It is ufed inftead. of Turpentine to'all cutward Applications. 
This Balfam feems to be that defcrib’d by C/ufws in Nor. ad Monard. 
de Balfamo, under the Name of Bal/amum ex S. Domingo, and perhaps like. 
wife itis the Refina Carthaginenfisy. ot Monardes, commended much-in 
Wounds of the.Nerves. | gout se 
Il. Terebinthus maxima, pinnis paucioribus majoribus atque rotupatoribus, 
frutu racemofo fparfo, Cat. Fam. p. 167. Tab, 199. Fig.:3. Raij. “Hit. Vol. 
3. Dendr, p. 51. An Terebinthas Americana, piftacia frutku non eduli, Plum. 
Lournef. Inft. pr 5802 jigs laud ; | 
«Hog Doétor:Tree, or; Boar-Tree. 
OG 210 JOM S33 fibirt O17 
This Tree has a Trunc as thick as our Oaks, rifes ftreight up to 
fifty Foot high, -and-is -very. numerous in_its Branches,which-it_ begins 
to fend forth at twenty Foot’s Diftance from its Root, which runs a great 
Way on the Surface of the Earth, drawing Nourifhment to the Tree 
from feveral Places very far from its Trunc. It is one of thofe Trees 
which fheds its. Leaves about. the Months of November: and. December 
getting Klowers and Leaves in Fanuary and February, the Flowers fprout- 
ing firft out ofthe Ends.of the Twigs ;.they. are ftamineous, and-of a 
purplifh brown Golour;. the Leaves come after, they are wing’d, deing 
for the moft Part, made.up of two. Pair of Pinnz, fet oppolite t6-one 
another, and, a fifth at the,End; each of them. is fatten’d ‘toithe mid- 
dle Rib by a three quarters of an Inch long Footftalk, is: round 
a nat ee is’ roundifh 
two Inches long and one and a half broad, fhini a i ‘awn 
Colour, thing! + Oi ? ing, of a light brown 
id-“hath dHany appearing Ribs'on its: Surfaces ‘The 
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“Bruit! is fevetal! ‘oblong, ‘roundifh Berri¢s, containing within, tay refinous 
thin 
