The Natural Ficftory of JAM ATCA, 
Plumbs. 
This Tree rifes not paft ten Foot high, is as thick as one’s Leg, 
ftraight, and grey Colour’d in the Bark; it hath in the Beginning of the 
Spring, after having been naked for feveral Months, fome very {mall 
purple pentapetalous Flowers with yellow Stamina breaking out of the 
Ends and Sides of its bare Twigs:and Branches, and fometimes feveral 
together on the fame Footftalk, to which follows on the fame bare Twigs 
an oval fhaped, {mooth Fruit, of the Bignefs of one’s Thumb, firft green 
then purple, of a fweetifh fulfome Tafte when ripe, but nor unplea fant. 
The Pulp is but fmall in Comparifon of the Fruit, the Stone being 
large and cover’d with fome Threads and Filaments. The Leaves 
come after the Fruit is ripe towards the Ends of the Branches ; they 
are many and winged, the Pinnx fet to the middle Rib-are an Inch 
long and about half as broad in the Middle where broadeft, and ‘have 
an oddone at the End, and are of a frefh green Colour. 
The Fruit is ripe inthe Months of May and April. 
They are planted by the Slip as Phyfick Nuts to make Hedges, both 
for a Fence growing {peedily, as alfo becaufe they are not uapleafant when 
eaten by Men, and that all Manner of Cattle will feed on them. 
{fone cut the Pruit a-thware when ripe,a great many Eruce appear 
in the Pulp, from whence they are thought.to breed Worms, and bring 
the Gripes to thofe feeding on them. 1) on: | 
Some Savages by the Bay of Honduras love this Fruit fo well, depend- 
ing on it for Nourifhment, that they in the Seafonleaft their Neigh- 
bours, wanting them fhould get them, guard them with Bows and At. 
rows, Rochef. whofe Figure is fabulous. 
__ Layfield ap. Purchas, lib. 4. p.1172- obferved them in Porto Rico where 
they ftay Fluxes. 7 ; 
Oviedo /1b, g. cap. 16. tells us they make Wine of the Fruit, and that it 
fheds its Leaves, éd. } aster 
XVII. Prunus Brafilienfis fructa racemofo ligno intus pro officulo. Raij. Hifp. 
Cat. Fam, p. 172. prunifera Arbor Americana, fructy luteo ovali, dficalo wiajord, 
quorum nuclet ad porcos fagneandos ipfis Slandibus praferuntur, Plak. Alwmapeft. 
p. 307+ Monbix Arbor foltis fraxint frucku luteo racemofo, Plumier,: pl Arper. 
p. 44- Hog-Plumb-Tree of Dampier, cap. 5. 
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Hog: Plumb-Tree. 
This Tree has a Trunc of about a Foot or two Diameter, cover’d 
with an afh colour’d grey Bark, having very many deep Furrows in 
ii, rifing to forty or fifty Foot high; the Branches are crooked) ‘and 
towards their furcher Ends have a great many very largewinged Leaves; 
the Flowers are in very largé: Pyramidal Bunches on’ the Ends of the 
‘Twigs ftanding on fmall branch’d. Petioli,:they are white, ‘pentapeta- 
lous, with white Stamina, fmelling fweet, and making avery fine Sew 
in the Month of March, and to them follaw feveral oval, yellow Plushbs, 
much like the yellow Plumbs »before: deforib’di: ino | i at 
They‘ grow in the Lowland Woods and Savannas every where. © 2.” 
/ The Wood is. foft and ufed for, Cork, it grows eafily»by the Branch ; 
the Leaves afford a good Sawce comfortable to the Stomach, being fowr, 
fax CEN « sh Pre & . Fd UT AN 2s Arend MESeE ys | 
{t grows about Amapals, Dampier. VheotlhO at a“ 
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