| The! Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA, 
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tranfverfe Ribs, from a narrow Beginning, increafing to near the End 
where broadeft, then ending in an obtufe Point. ‘he Flowers come out 
from the Branches themfelves, being of a Cream Colour, and afterthem fol- 
lows the Fruit, being oblong, roundifh, two or three Inches long, biggeft 
in the Middle, where ’tis almoft as big as one’s Arm, tapering to both 
Ends: »?tis cover’d with a rough Cinamon or ruffet colour’d Skin, ha- 
ving feveral Eminencies and Depreffions on it of feveral Figures. With- 
in the outward! Skin liesa Pulp half or three Quarters of an Inch thick 
of the fame Colour, fweet and lufcious, called natural Marmelade from - 
its Likenefs in Colour ro Marmelade of Quinces. Within this Pulp lies 
one large Stone, long and pointed, bigger at one End than at the other, the 
Shell. beingiof a Cinamon Colour and fhining, except one long Slit a- 
long its Edge, which is of an Afh Colour and has an unequal Surface, 
roundifh-on one End and pointed at the other, within which lies a 
Kernel. 
~ It is.planted by the Stone in feveral Places as other Fruit Trees, and 
yields Fruit moft Part of the Year. 
The Fruit iselteem’d by fome as very pleafant, eat either alone, or be- 
caufe tis lu{cioufly fweet and fomewhat infipid, with Lemon Juice mix’d 
with it, and it’s thought by fome People to be very venereal from fome 
Signature they fancy they fee upon it. ! 
The Relation that Clufivs had of thefe Stones being the Produce of 
the Tree’ yielding the Balfamam Peruvianam, appears without Ground 
tho’ this feems to be the fame defcrib’d by: him, tho” larger. hort? 
Brom the fweet Tafte and. Colour of the Pulp of this Fruie like to 
Marmelade, this Tree has been {aid to bring natural Marmelade, and’ the 
fame was.obferved ~by»Fo/eph ‘Acofta to be the Opinion of the Crolos or 
Croelians of his Time; he fays it grew in the hot Parts of New-Spain, and 
that it was: thought to furpafs all the Fruits of Spain, but he himfelf 
was not of that Opinion. © 
-Jris accounted the principal Fruit of the Weft-Indies, Dampier, who 
takes Notice of it about Panama. 
Mammee-Sapotdas are the Food of Tigres on the main Continent of Ame- 
yica, as Dr. Smallwood who liv’d there affured me. 
Dr. Plakenet. in his Mantiff. p..19. makes the Coxcocypote, Claf. exot.to be 
this, and another of his own Trees in his Alm. p.vg. ins pand 16.5 
Raveneau de Luffan, p. 45. found this Tree in the Ifles'near Pzzama in 
rhe Sourh-Seas, where he fays: it had two Stones: and a red'Pulp, but is_ 
miftaken. , wa 
Rob, Tomfon aps Hakl. pe 454s and: Hawks, p. 3. p.464. met with ic. 
growing about Mexico. 
XV. Myroholanut, folio fraxini alato fruttu:luteo, officulo wiesnd broft j 
Cat. fam. p. 181. Tab. 219. Figo ay 2. Raz. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendi. p43. Ke- 
becatt, arbor pumila maritima, frutku mirabolano citrino perfimilis Icaca attera 
aa dyfenteriam. Surtans: Hobi, Oviedo Summary, po210. aps Bden,~Arbori Wetti 
Fobi altro modo chiamati mirabolani. Roman ap. Fern. Colon, vit, p.127, Arbores 
procera que fructus ferdnt inftar prunorum, croceitoloris quos' aqua cottos, expri- 
munt elicianeg, 
“The Yellow Plumb-Tree. 
“This Tree rifeth ito about thirty Foot: high; having \a‘thick Troe : 
ei’dswith a whitifh grey. Bark, with few.Salei in ityat is‘ufually crook * 
coy: ae pbb ger , 
ed,and\fpreads it felf-out in large en every: Hand, whofe Eads 
“\ hhave’ 
liquoverm palato admodum gratums neq; injalubrem, Lact, p.662;' 
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