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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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The {mall Maccaw-Tree. 
The Trunc of this Palm-Tree is no thicker than the Small of one’s 
Leg, rifes not over fifteen Foot high, has Prickles in the fame Man- 
ner as the larger foregoing one, and is. like it in every thing only 
much leffer, by which it is fufficiently diftinguifh’d from it, tho’ Dr. 
Plukenet p. 144. of his =p would make them the fame. 
It grows beyond Gaanvaboa in the Woods near the Road going to 
Colonel Bourden’s Plantation. 
The Topsare not eatable, Ov. 
The Fruit of this is eatable, Dampier. 
IX. Palma [pinofa minor caudice gracili, fractu pruniformi, minimo, rubro. 
Cat. fam. p. 178. Ray. Hift, Vol. 3. Dendr, p. 3. Palma dactylifera, aculeata 
frutta corallino minor. Plum, pl. Am.p.3. An Palma polygonati anguftis, lon- 
gioribus folits, peaiculis [pinofis ex infula Fohanna. Pluk, Mant. p-144? 
Prickly- Pole. 
Thirty or forty of thefe grow always together, clofe to one another, 
they have, at coming out of the Ground, a Swelling, as moft Palms, 
made up of many Thongs or Ligule interwoven or matted toge- 
ther; the Stem is very fmall, being but four or ‘five Inches’ over; 
"tis forty. Foot high, of a clay or grey Colour, and very thick befet 
with large and long Prickles round it; the Leaves are all at the Top 
like the ‘Coconut and: the others of this Kind, only greener, not fo 
long, altho’ the Pinna are longer in Proportion to the whole Leaf, and 
very thick befet with Prickles; the Fruit {tands as the others of this 
Kind, is bigger than the largeft Pea, has a red Skin covering a {weet, 
thin Pulp which inclofes a hard, white Kernel. 
This grew in the Thickets near the Monegue Savanna, very plentifully 
and in feveral other Places of this Ifland. 4 
They are the moft fir to make Rods and Scowrers for Guns of any 
Tree in this Ifland. 
Negro’s travelling barefooted thro’ the Woods, very carefully avoid 
Places where thefe grow, becaufe of the many Prickles that fail from 
‘their Stems and Leaves, fo that for feveral Paces in Cirumference the 
Ground is full of them. 
X. Palma Brafilienfis prunifera folio plicatili feu flabelli formi caudice /quam- 
mato. Raij Hift. Cat. fam. p. 178, Tab. 213. Fig. 2. Palma humilis feu 
Chamariphes curaffavica prunifera [pinofa nucleo extus eleganter variegato. 
Pluk, Alm. p.277. Palmeto-Tree of Dampier, cap.6,G 10.  Palmettos 
Leaves, ejufd. cap. 15. An Palma Barbadenfis non Spinofa, folto plicatili feu fla- 
belli formi, fructus officulo nigro. Pluken, Alm, p. 277? An palma dactylifera 
vadtata minor aculeata, Plum. pl. Am. p. 3? 
Thatch. 
This Palm-Tree hasa Swelling at the Bottom of the Trunc, is ver 
‘fmooth, not over the Bignefs.of one’s»Leg at fmalleft, of a:clay Colour, and 
‘towards the Top appear fome reticulated Baggs, wherein were Jil- 
“Glofed its Leaves or Flowers. it grows to about ten Root high, and.atthe 
“‘Top.come: many Leaves, they are Zea inne icon two or: three 
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