The Natural Hiflory of JAM AIC aa 
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and almoft fmooth Bark, having feveral Branches rifing to twenty or thirty 
Foot high, the Ends of the Twigs being loaded with feveral Leaves 
fet without any Order round them, they ftand on half Inch long Footftalks 
are 2 Inches long, and not above three quarters of one broad, foft, {mooth, 
having a whitifh middle Rib, and being of a dark green Colour; broad: 
eftin the Middle, whence it grows narrower towards both Ends. The 
Flowers come out in Tufts from the Branches, three or four to. 
gether, ftanding on an eighth of an Inch long Footftalks, being -verw 
{mall, pale yellow, having five Corners, and at every one as it were 
a Stamen ftanding up. ax 
It grew on the red Hills between Guanaboa and the Town very co- 
ioufly: , 
C By he Figure and Defcription of this it appears different from the 
Salix arbor folliculifera tetraphyllos lucide atrowirentibus acutis Solijs Ameri- 
cana Black-Sallow Barbadenfibus vulgo Phyt. Pluk. Tab. 221. fig. 2. Alm: 
p 328. tho’ the Dr. 165. of his Mantiffz, queftions if it be not the 
fame. 
XXIV. Arbor Baccifera, flore luteo monopetalo difformi, fruktu |pherico nis 
gricante monopyreno. Cat. fam, p- 170. Rai. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p: 61. 
This Tree has feveral Stems or Truncs as thick as ones Leg, cover’d 
with a fmooth almoft white Bark, rifing to twenty Foot high, the 
Branches and Twigs ftanding upright, om which are the Leaves 
placed alternatively on one tenth of an Inch long Footftalks, being an 
Inch and a half long and_three quarters of one broad in the Middle, where 
broadett, fhining, thick, fmooth, of a yellowifh Colour, and having a Mid: 
dle Rib, Ex alis foliorum come the Flowers, one or more together, be- 
ing fmall, galericulated or cucullated, of a pale yellow Colour, to each 
of which follows a fpherical blackifh Berry, as big as a Field Pea; 
containing within a thin Pulp a very large round whitifh Seed or 
Kernel. 
It grows on the Red Hills going to Guazaboa, very plentifully. 
XXV. Berberis fructu arbor maxima baccifera racemofa, folijs ivtegris obtr- 
fis, flore albo pentapetalo odoratiffimo, fruttu. nigro monopyreno. Cat, fam. p: 
170. Tab, 206. Fig. 3,0" 4. Raij. Hift. Volz. Dendr, p. 61: 
Fiddles oon. 
This grows to one of the largeft Trees, of this Ifland, rifing fixty Foot 
high, {treight, affording very large and good Timber, cover’d with a whi- 
tifh brown wreath’d Bark, which hangs down or fticks loofly to the Body 
of the Tree, looking like Hemp, or the Cannabis Bark after "tis fteep’d and 
peel’d off of the Stalk. Towards the Ends of its Branches come the Leaves, 
ftanding pretty thick without any Order on half Inch long Foorftalks, three 
Inches and a half long, and one and a half broad in the Middle where 
broadeit, narroweft at the Bafe, ofa frefh-green Colour’; at theEnds of the 
Branches come fix Inches long Strings, lilkethe Strings of Ribes to which 
the Flowers are faften’d, they ate many, ftand in a green Capfula, are 
white, pentapetalous, and extremely fweet fcented, to each of which 
follows a roundifh, firft greeny .‘then yellow, and when ripe, black, 
Gmpoth Berry, in-a thin Pulp, inclofing a large oval or roundifh 
tone... 
It grows very plentifully in féveral Places about the Town of St. Fago 
de la Vega and in the Low-land Woods. f 
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