The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
95 
The Berries are eaten by Children. | re 
The Figure and Defcription.of this Tree plainly fhew it to be different 
from ths Cerafis racemola.foltjs amygdating Americana, Pluk. Rhyt. tabe 158. 
Fig. 4. Alm. p. 95. 
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_ SIL Cera/o affinis arbor baggifera racemof4, fore peatapetalo her baceo Buttato, 
Fructu coccineo manopyreno wifcido, femine rugolo Cat. Jam. p.,.169- [4b. 203. 
Fig. 2. Raij, Hift. Vol. 3: Dend p> 45. Cerala Americana rygofis falss, free 
vif cofo. Plukenet. Tab, 158, Fig.1. da M ae dees See glabra 
an rb. Agmft. 2.153 ° Gababara rubra folys 
druite rubra mucslaginofo,<-aremel, He 
Aaurinis.. erm par, Bu prec oo, 
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: totes 3 H i 
lO M9ATD stBy 6.10. fl ibgmr3d .edi A goiiseg 
+ ER CREE oF ott 9A “atisonishau 
1, This Tree has. freight undivided Trune, bose the Thicknel of ones 
high, having near the Top, Branehesen ewery Hand, whofe Twigs Bave 
vitcid Pulp, one. chequerid, rugous Stone, .W 
‘Hollows ot Cavities on itstound Surface.; ,, /j, saqono) 
ng Koad £0 Gainey Hens, 
Powlis,moft in Requelt, 
XII. Cerafo affinis arbor baccifera racemofa fru tu caeruleo, monopyreno, te- 
fticulato, Cat. Jam. p.169. Tab. 202. Fig. 2. Ratj. Hist. Vol. 3. Dendr. 
This Tree rifeth ‘by, many Truncs as big as. ones Leg, to thirty 
‘Foot ‘high,, having Branches hanging downwards, ’tis coyer’d with 
‘an almoit fmoorh, dark grey , Bark, ‘haying .at. the Ends, of the 
Twigs, feveral Leaves ftanding oppofite one. to .the ‘other, on half Inch 
long Footftalks, being four Inches long, and one anda half broad, in 
the Middle, where broadeft, from the-Footftalk, augmenting to the Mid- 
dle, and from thence decreafing to a Point, being thin, fmooth, and of a 
very dak. green, Colour, havisg a Middle Nerve,and  fome tranfyerfe 
‘ones. The “Fruit is,a Clufter or, Umbel, of , Berries {tanding on, three 
Inches long, green, branch’d Footftalks, two always. {ticking clofe,or being 
-join’d. togecher, as if tefticulated. . They are of a.deep blue, Colour,and 
‘contain within a thin, fmall Pulp, a)very. hard, Jmall, almoft round 
“Stone, m  onefesannnprr. -imnlod roteg 
~" “This is not the Sovanna, Amelpodi. H.M. Part.6, p.81.,as to any who 
“compares this Defcriprion and Figure with that, may appear. 
~~ It, grew on the Road which goes from, the Town to Colonel Cope’s 
“Plantation ia Gassaboa, in the Woods.on,the red Hills, near the Hopfe. 
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