The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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XX. Yafminum forte, arboreum, folijs laurints obtufis latioribus atrovirentis 
bus, Fence racemofo purpureo reflexo. Cat. Jam. p. 169. Tab. 200. 
Fig. 2, Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 64. 
This Tree rifeth to about thirty Foot high, having a Clay or Afh- 
colour’d/pretty {mooth Bark ; its ‘Twigs are fet about with Leaves which 
are very Imooth, ofa dark green‘Colour, having a quarter of an Inch lon 
Foorftalks, being four Inches long and two broad in the Middle, where 
broadeft, having an eminent middle Rib. The Flowers ftand on {eves 
ral little Branches, being pentapetalous, purplifh, bow’d back, having 
yellow Stamina in their Middle. i ek 
It grows on the Mountains near Mr. EkXetfon’s Plantation in Liguanee. 
XXI. Mali folio fubtus albicante arbor baccifera, ligno duriffimo, frutta 0 
nopyreno rubro, officulo cannulato. Cat. “fam. p. 170. Tab. 206. Fig. 1. Raij. 
Hift, Vol, 3. Dendr. p, 61. Sideroxylum Americanum feu lignum duritie fer- 
rum amulans. Pluken, Phyt. Tab. 224, Fig. 2. Alm: pi 346. 
Tron-Wood, 
This Tree grows to about twenty Foot high, having a fmooth, whi- 
tifh or grey Bark, crooked Branches, and towards their Ends fe 
veral Leaves, very {mooth, thin, two Inches and a half long and one and 
a half broad, of an oval Figure, whitifh on the underfide, and fomethin 
refembling thofe of a Pear-Tree, ftanding on very fhort Footftalks, as 
do the Flowers, which are many, coming out among the Leaves; thé 
Berries ftand fingly each on an eighth of an Inch long Footftalk, having 
within a reddifh’ Skin and Pulp, aa angular, cannulated, oblong Srone. 
The Wood is very hard, whence the Name. 
It grows in the Savanna Woods in feveral Places. 
XXII. Baccifera racemofa fruticofa Buxi folio nervofo ad fummitates latiovi, 
fructu amaro monopyreno. Cat. Fam, p.170. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr, p. 61. 
This Shrub rifes to three or four Foot high ; the Trunc is cover’d with 
an almoft {mooth Afh-colour’d Bark ; the Leaves come out of the Branches 
at halfan Inch’s Diftance, {tanding out on one roth of an Inch long Foot 
ftalks, are an Inch long and 3 quarters of one broad, trom being narrow 
rowing round and broader to the Point; they are very green, fmooth, 
hard, and thick, having a middle Rib and feveral tran{verfe ones. The 
Fruit ftands feveral together, on very fhort and crooked Footftalks 
‘coming out ex alis foliorum; they are very red Berries, of a round 
comprefs’d Figure, bigger than Barberies, having within a bitterifh Pulp, 
a Stone of the fame Figure with the Berry, containing a white Kernel, 
It grew on the Hills between Mr. Bermard’s and Mr. Freeman’s Plantae 
tation. 
This feems to me to.be quite differing from the*Cera/z Hottentotorum&c. 
Pluken. Phyt. Tab. 82. Fig:-5.tho’ Dr. Pluk. p. 43. Mant. thinks they may 
be thefame.- Neither is it the Baxus, &c. figured by him, Td, 80. as He 
there fufpects, | 1 YOu: 
XXII. Salicis folio lato folendente, arbor, floribus parvis pakide laters 
pentapetalise ramulorum lateribus confertim exeuntibas. Cat. fam. Pp. 170. 
Tab, 206. Fig. 2. . 801 4 . 
This Tree (which was in many Things like the preceding, tho’ I know 
‘Mot the Fruit) has a Trunc as thick as ones T high, cover’d witha — 
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