~The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
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thias  T'woor three Foot below: the Top, along the Trunc come out 
the Flowers without any Footfalk almoft at all, fometimes fingly, fomes 
times in Tufts; they are at firft a round Knob or Button, which after- 
wards opens into a tetrapetalous Flower; the Petala being thick, pale 
yellow and full ofa great many Stamina, {melling very fweet, to which 
follows a Fruit like to the Mammee Sapota,in Bignefs, Shape, Colour, é&c. 
It grows going to Sixteen-Mile-Walk, by the Rivers Side, and in fe- 
veral other Places, as well as all over the hot Weft Indies. 
The Fruit is by the Spaniards pickled and eaten in Lieu of Mango’s, and 
fent from the Spanifh Welt Indies to old Spain, as the greateft Rarity. 
Ligon, p. 38. @ p. 72. fays that it was ufed in Barbados for Difert, but 
he never faw it. 
XII. Malus Perfica maxima, foliis rotundioribus /plendentibus glabris, 
fructu maximo, {cabro, rugofo, fubrotundo, pulpa dura fablutea, unum vel 
plura cofficula filamentofa cingente. Cat. Fam. p. 179. Tab. 217. Fig. '3. 
Appell- Mamets Steerbeck. citr. p. 30: Mammee er Mammet-Tree ot Dampier, 
cap. 5,7. Mameimagno fratiu Perfice fapore, Plum. pl. Am. p. 44. An 
Peregrinus fructus craflus in quo magnus nucleus, F. B. p. 398? An arbor 
Americana amplioribus {ubrotundis duris & nervolis folits, frutta pugni Mii} 0 
ris macuitudine, Plaken, Almag. p. 39? Phyt. Tab. 268. Fig. 2? Fruthas 
reticutato corto conftans, Mu/. Summerd. p. 14. : | 
The Mammee-Tree, 9! > . 
, i Fitter Givi * 
This Tree is above fixty Foot high, as large as the biggeft Oak, 
the: Bark on the Oovtfide! is fall of! Sulci, of a grey Colour, and within 
is wyellowifh.» Fhe Leaves aré fet on the Branches Oppofite to one ano- 
theriatitwolnches. Diftance, on very fhort Footftalks, they are four 
Inches long and two broad in the Middle where broadeft, having one 
middle and feveral tranfverfe Ribs, very fmooth and green; the Fruit 
{tands on a fhort, thick Footftalk, is as big as one’s Fift, round, or fome- 
times having a Ledge, or Creft; the outward Skin being when ripe, yellow- 
ifh green, rugous, fomething like a ruffeting Apple, and having feveral Fi- 
laments on the outward Surface, like fome Melons the Pulp is at firft 
milky, when ripe very grateful to the Palate, yellowifh like a Carrot, and 
harder:than an Apple, having fomething of an Aromatic Tafte, about the 
Thicknefs of three quarters of an'Inch. Within this Pulp are lodged one, 
two, or three Stones, being rough, or having feveral Furrows and Af- 
perities, which.are  filamentofe, of a teddifh brown Colour, being 
if more than one, flat on fome of their Sides, and roundifh on the o- 
ther, whereby they: lie clofe to one another; within this thin out- 
ward Shell lies.an almoft fmooth Kernel, of the fame Colour and Shape 
with the Stone, made up of two Lobes, -as moft other Kernels are. — 
It grows in great Abundance on moft Hills of this Ifland, both in 
the South and North Parts'thereof. he | 
It is one of the moft pleafant and grateful Fruits to be met with 
in thefe Parts, eaten by Way of Diferr, as other Fruits. 
Wild ‘Swine féed:'on this Fruit,and are extremely fatten’d by them in 
Seafon when'they ‘are ripe. : 
ee E. of Cunsberdandy ap: Sais ib, 4. p. 1152, met with them at 
L/OM1HICR O03 cBiw i Sits 10 A SES. ete we 
Se ei ap. Parchas, lib, 4)ps 1972. in Porto Rico, ~~ 
JNacol, ap.Purchas lib: 6, cap. 13! p.'1255. in Sta, Lucia.’ 
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