Ito 
The Natnral Hiftory of YAMALCA. 
XLVI. Frutex baccifer, flare pentapetalo certleo fratty violaceo. Cut, 
fain. P. 173. Raij, Hift. Vol, 3. Dendr. p75 Malet § 
This Shrub riféth to feven or eight Foot high, with fmafl tender Twigs, 
having a fmooth whitifh, Bark, and a. yellowifh green Leaf’ ant Inch 
long and half as broad. Its Flower is blue and penicapetalons; t0 which 
follows a long oval blue Berry. ion. 
It grows onthe Honey-Comb Rocks, near Mr. Bazchelor’s Plantation, 
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| Of “Pruniftrous Trees, or, fuch as bear Plimbs. 
MANY that are hereafter reckon’d to belong.;to, this Tribe; 
perhaps on two Accounts, may. be referr’d to other Places. 
Tie firlt Confideration which may place fome of them otherwife, is 
the Smallnefs of the Pulp, which is, ini‘fome Palms. fo inconfiderable 
as to dry. away, and fearce.be worth Notice; yet confidering the Agree- 
ment of fuch Palms in their whole Face with Dates, Iam apt to‘ think: 
they may» Wellcenough dtaid here: ‘till! fome other Botanift finds a. bet« 
dev Plasepsidh Brera otslq 2i GW whined wsncic oo coon 
Secondly, There are many Trees in this Tribe, as\the Cedar and 
fome others, whofe Fruit I never faw, but becaufe the Leaves came 
neareft to the Leaves of Plumb-Trees ‘here growing,, till future more 
diligent and, exact Difcoveries. and’ Obervations. bring. them. to fome 
more proper Kind, I know not where better to put them. > ~~ 
All Palm-T'rees growing here have an-undivided Trunc, are very high, 
at leaft moft Sorts of them, have Leaves only towards the Top, and when 
one fallsdown, another comes out of the Top of it; they have thick, 
fhort, black Roots, matted one within another, and make a Swelling above 
the Surface of the Ground; moft of them are fmaller at the Bottom 
than at the, Top; and the Gem, Gymi, oc Heads of molt of them, called 
Cerebra, (which. if cut the Palm dies) are eatable whilit the Buds are 
all inclos’d, terider and white, but this. is moft Evident in the Top of that 
called the Cabbage-Tree.. The moft Part of Palm-Trees have likewife 
a broad Footftalk to their Leaves, which. falling off leaves a Mark in 
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~ By Leaf is meant, in the following, Defcriptions, what. by many Aue 
thors’ is called a Branch, viz. that’ Part of the Palm;which falls down 
from the Top. of the Tred by one; common. Footftalk coming off; 
allofthem have an Isvolacrum covering the young budding Flowers, 
called Sparha, being made up of many-Fibres, running curioufly one by 
another, and’ making’ very. fine :reticulated Webs fit for Strainers, ¢°c. 
of which I believe the Palma faccifera Cluf. to be one. ng 
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