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The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
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A Portugal of Elvas. p. 10. and ap. Parchas, p. 1520. tells us it was 
the beft Fruit of the Country (Brafi/e) and efteem’d by the Iflanders. 
They differ in Tafte, have one or two Stones, and grow in the 
Ifles, of them is made a good Marmelade, Acofta. 
In the Continent they are longer, larger, and more pleafant than in 
Hifpaniola, where they are rounder, Benzo. 
It isthe beft Fruit of the Weft-Indies, Lop. Gom. 
In Veragua they make Wine of this Fruit, Fern. Col. 
This Tree grows in St. Fobn’s de P. Rico fourth Voyage to Virginia, ap. 
Hakl. 
XIV. Mali Perfice Mameye ditte folio longiore arbor maxima, cortice, fal- 
cato, cinereo, amaro. Cat. Fam. p. 180. Wild Mammee of Dampier, cap. 7. 
Aa Palma Maria-Trees ejufd. cap. 8. An Nucifera arbor femper virens Indéa- 
rum, prelongis fobs venufte venofis, cujus lignum Redwood, 4.e. Erythroxylon 
Barbadenfibus, Nx vero Dhumba Ceylonenfibus ditta. Pluk. Mant. p. 136? 
. Baftard Mammee-Tree, or, Santa Maria. 
--This is one of the largeft Trees of the Ifland, fo that I could never fee 
the feveral Parts. ofit to defcribe it more exaCtly than what follows. 
It had when young, a very fine, fmooth, yellowifh Bark, with fome 
white Spots on it, but when old had a great many Sulci not un- 
like the Bully-Tree, ic was long and lender, and had a broad Leaf 
fomething like that of the Mammee, for which Caufe, knowing not its 
other Parts, I refer it hither. 
_ From the Name of Sazta Maria given by the Spaniards to this Tree, and 
its Bark being bitter, it -wasthought,by fome to be the Cortex Peruvi- 
anti LAR ‘and to have great Vertues, but it proved otherwife upon 
e § | Shae as Se Se aft ef 0] 
he ‘Wood is ufed to make Staves.of. 
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~ This Trée is ftraight, tall and tough, and therefore ufed forMafts, Damp. 
The Grain of the Wood of Palma Maria runs not ftraight along but 
twilting about it, and therefore it is tough, Dampier. who fays it is ufed 
for Maftsby the Englifh and Spaniards about Québo. 
XIV. Malus Perfica maxima foliis maguis, integris, longis, fraitu maximo 
oblongo, feabra, oficulo partim rugofo, partim glabro. Cat, Fam. p. 180. Tab. 
218. Fructus oblongus utring; acuminatus feu conicus levis [plendens [padiceus 
que caftanee fpecies videtur, Maj. Corten, Ray, Hift. p» 1800. Arbor Ameri- 
cana pomifera, frondofis ramulis, foliis amplis, longioribws, obtufis, duris G ve- 
nofis, margine equalt Mammee fapota Famarcenfibus audit Plaken. Alm. p. 39. 
Phyt..Tab. 268. Fig. 2. Mammee Sapota-T'ree of Dampier. cap. 7. An Sapota 
fractu ovato mazort Plumier. pl. Am, p. 43 ? 
Mammee-Sapota, or, Mauma-Supporta. 
~ This Tree has a ftraight Trunc thirty Foot high, about the Bignefs of 
one’s. Middle, cover?d with an afh-colour’d Bark, having here and 
there fome Furrows init; the Trunc is undivided till it comes about 
twelve Foot high, whence the Branches come out, being equally fpread 
on every Hand, and on the very Tops of the Twigs the Leaves fet all 
round them without any.Order, having-an Inch long Footftalk, they ate a 
Foot long and three Inches, broad near the farther End. where broadeft, 
of a pale green Colour, fmooth, thin, having one middle and feveral 
tranf- 
