The Natural Hiftory of JAMAI C A. 
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XLV. Heliotropij fore, frutex, folio maxjmo oblongo acuminato, glabro 
Cat, fam. Pp. 173. Lab, 212: Fig. 2, Ray. Hist, Vol.3. Dendr, p. “6. Ay 
Hiachichinoapatla hoac feu herba ufta latifolia. Hernandez, p. 292? 
This is in moft things the fame with the former; its Leaves are 
not corrugated nor hairy, but fmooth, neither are they round, but ob- 
long. The Branches with the Flowers ate longer, having on its upper 
Side feveral whitifh long Flowers, placed like the Heliotropes, each of 
which is five pointed. I think the Berries or Seed is as the former. 
I met with it in the fame Places, 
XLVI. Rubus folijs longioribus fubtw molt lanagine obdultis CG» intants 
flore & fruitu minortbus, Cat. Fam. p. 173. Tab. 213. Fig. t. Raij. Hift. 
Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 76. 
This agreed exaGdly in every thing with the Rubus valgaris, feu Rubus 
frudtu nigro, C. B, only the Leaves were longer, whiter underneath, be- 
ing cover’d over with a fhorc, fott Wool; the Leaves were likewife 
ferrated on the Edges, and the Flower and Fruit were fmaller, Oviedo 
fays likewife that thefe Brambles were higher, 
It grew on the South Side of Mount Diablo near the Moxeque Savanna 
as one goes to the North Side. 
~ This, in all likélyhood, is what Peter Martyr in his Third Decade, and 
Bighth Chapter fpeaks of, to be found growing on the higheft Plains a- 
mongft the Mountains in Jamaica and Hi/paniola, from whence he argues 
the Coldnefs of the Air, but this being nocrthe fame with our Euopean: 
Rubus, but differing as above mention’d, I take his Argument to be not 
concluding. -ut-sageeeer ** eee | 
“Dre Plukenet, p.164, of his Mantiffa doubts if this be not Rubus Ideus 
frudtu nigro Virginianus Banifter. But “tis plain this is a Bramble and 
not a Rafeberry. 
 XLVIL. Fratex baccifer, folio oblongointegro, flore pentapetalo, pallide luteo 
odoratiffimo, Cat. Jam. p.173. Ray. Heft. Vol, 3. Dendr. p. 75. 
Cloven-Berries. 
This is a {mall Shrub rifing to about eight or nine Foot high, by fe- 
veral fmall Truncs, not fo big asones Arm, ftraight, and cover’d with 
a reddifh, grey colour’d Bark ; the Branches have Leaves at three quar- 
ters of an Inch’s Diftance, which about the Beginning of February 
fall off, and in their Place come Tufts of Flowers, four or five together, 
on fcarce any Footftalks; they are pale green, pentapetalous with fome 
Stamina of the fame Colour, and {mell very fweet; to thefe follow 
oval black Berries, about the Bignefs of fmall Sloes, cleaving into 
two for the moft Part, whence the Name. After thefe come the 
Leaves, they ftand on one tenth of an Inch long Footftalks, are three 
Inches long, one broad in the Middle, very foft and woolly, of a yel- 
lowith green Colour, except the Ribs which incline to red. 
It is to be met with in feveral Places of the Ifland towards the Caymanes, 
and on the red Hills going to Gaanaboa. 
The Berries when ripe give Meat to wild Pigeons, fatt’ning them 
very much. 
This does not feem to be the Solanum Americanum Strychnodendro acce- 
dens fruity medio ante maturstatem quaft fifo, Pluk.Phyt. Tab. 111. Fig. 4. 
Alm, p. 349. as Dr. Péukenes fancies 1n his Mantiffa. p. 173- 
Ee ey All.. 
