see ay, 
The Natural Hiftryof JAMAICA. 10, 
ee 
thac Fruit here called Barbados-Cherries, jult before defcrib’d, which is o 
the Bignefs of the European Cherry, of the fame Colour, with fome 
Sulci in it, and contains within a reddifh fucculent Pulp, feveral tri- 
angular, yellow Acinior Seeds, the ourwardmolt Sides whereof, are very 
deeply furrowed. : 
It grows between that Part of the Town of St. Jago de la Vega called; 
Troopers-Quarters, and the Rio Cobre, and neat the old Monaftery. 
The fcarce perceivable Prickles lying on the under Side of this Léaf will 
make themfelves be felt by any touching or coming near it. 
XL. Arbor baccifera, myrti folio latiore, fraitu nigro cerafino dipyreno. Car. 
Jam. p. 172. Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. Deady. p. 66. An Cerafus Barbadenfts pa- 
mila in ertcetss arenartjs proveniens, the Sandy Heath-Cherry diéta, Pluk. 
Alm. p.9g4? Vel, An Cerafus Africana, fractu caruleo e& codice Comptoniano, 
Ejufd. Phyt. Tab. 157, Fig. 5? 3 
ae | Bla ck-C herries. 
The Branches of this Tree are cover’d with a brown Bark, with white 
Spots on it here and there; the Leaves fet one againit another; exact! 
like thofe of the Myrtus Latifolia, the Fruit ftands on’a {mall eighth of 
an Inch long Footftalk, is like Black Cherries, whence the Name, having 
a very thin black Skin, with avery {mall Purple and fweetifh Pulp, in- 
cluding two. white Stones, flat on one Side, Spherical on the other, fo 
ae the two comprels’d Sides being join’d, they make one round 
phere. 
It grew in the Woods over Mr. Batchelor’s Houfe on the red Hills. 
If this be the Black-Cherty+Tree mention’d by Tom/ow ap: Hakl. p. 454: 
it groweth about Mexico, 7 
XLI. Solani fructa fruticofa, folijs lautinis oblongis integris fubtus hir[utis, 
flore minore purpureo, Cat. fam. p. 173. Tab. 188, Fig. 1. & Tab. 211. Fig: 1. 
Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 75. Arbor Sycophora Famaicenis folijs minortbus: 
Plukenet, Phyt. Tab. 266. Fig. 2. Solanum frute{cens Brafitianum folio capfici 
baccis rubris, Herm, Pay..Bat, pr. p. 377. Aa Solanum Caplicum dictum arbore|~ 
cens. Americanum nigrum, folsjs ab fbr is virentibus levioribufg, ¢ magis ob 
tufis few fefeli Aithiopici frutefcentis, Breyn. Pr. 2d? . 
As to Manner of Growth, this feems to have fome Relation to the fore= 
going, tho’ I cannot be certain, never having feen the Fruit: The Branched 
of this Shrub had‘a grey, fmooth, ftriated Bark) and ‘@ white’ Wood un- 
der it, and Leaves ftanding on’the Twigs, dppofite to One’ another with 
out apy Foorftalks;'being about an Inch and ‘an ‘half long, and’ half 
as broad in ‘the Middle, where broadeft, from whenée ‘they decreas’d 
to both the Beginning and Kad, being ‘rowgh~on irs under Side. Ex 
| alis foliorum, towards the Top, {ftand the Flowers on one third of an 
Inch long Footftalk, one or fometimes two being on the fame Petiolus, 
each of which is {mall and Purplifh colour’d, ftanding ina Pentaphyl- 
lous Calix. n 38: “ 
1 found it in famaica, but where I do not certainly remember. 
This Defcription is taken from the dryed Sample I found in’ my’ 
Books, ¢ » : Faun: c 
~Ehisois' not Solanum Indicum laurinis® anguftioribus, folijs maximum. 
Hi. R. H, Alm. p. 550, and figured by Dr. Plakenet, Phyt. Tab. 227, Fag. 2+ 
tho’ the Dr. thinks p.173.0f his Maatiffa, that it may be that. -_ 
