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Benzo compares thefe Fruit to Sloes, and fays, becaufe they had 
much Stone and little Pulp, they could not make Wine of them: 
Thevet {ays it grows in Canada, Cofm. 
The Wood is hard and of a violet Colour, good for feverdl Works, 
Rechef. | ce a | 
Layfield, ap. Parchas, lib. 6. p. 1172, faw this Tree in Porto Rico, where 
the Fruit ftops Fluxes. | 
There are Berries called K¢Hettee ufed by the Indians to ftop bloody 
Fluxes, Harcourt, 1b.1 276. | 
Dr. Plukenet finds Fault with me, p. 190. of his Mantiffa, that I took the 
Synoninons Names of this Plant from his Phytograpsy. This Book of his was 
rot publifhed before my Catalogue, tho’ the Date onthe Title Page was 
made 1692, it never was publifhed till 1696; as may appear by the 
Gazette and other Books wherein new Books were then advertis’d. 
XX. Prunus racemofa, foliis oblongis hirfutis maximis, fratta rubro. Cat. 
Fam. p. 184. Tab. 221. Fig. 1. Raij, Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 43. Arbor Indica 
baccifera verbafct folis lanuginof{a, Loblolly Barbadenfibus ditta. Plukenet, 
Alm. p. 38. 
The Broad-leaved Cherry-Tree. 
This Tree has a Trunc as thick as one’s Middle, covér’d with a grey 
furrow’d Bark, rifing to about fifty Foot high, having many crooked 
Branches; the Twigs are green and befet with Leaves, a Foot and a 
half long, and half as broad near the Bafe where broadeft ; each of them 
is hoary, corrugated like Sage or Foxglove, woolly, and of a frefh green 
Colour, having one large middle Rib and feveral tranfverfe ones, and 
ftands on a Footftalk three quarters of an Inch long. The Ends of the 
Branches or Twigs ,are divided into feveral hoary and purple Footftalks 
nine Inches long, having here and there feveral Berries or Plumbs 
which have a {mall Pulp, are of a reddifh Colour, and about the Bignefs 
of a great Bean. 
It grows in all the inland Woods, and near the Town of St. Jago de 
la Vega on the Banks of Réo Cobre. 
Mr. Reid who went to Barbados in Search of Plants, brought the Leaves 
of this Tree from thence which only differ’d in being lefs. 
The Defcription of this fhews it to differ from Dr. Plukenet’s Arbor 
Americana ampliffimis rugofis folits fere orbiculatis glabris ex Syrinam. Pluk. 
contrary to his own Conjetture, Maat. p. 18. He is likewife miftaken 
in his Opinion in the fame Book, p.27, where he thinks it may be the 
Arbor Americana convolvulacea Broad-leaf, i. €. Platyphyllos Barbadenfibus 
ditta folits ferratis, Phyt. Tab. 146. Fig. 1, Alm, p. 48. 
XXII. Arbor maxima forte prunifera, cortice cannabino, folio longiffimo 
Litiffimog, Cat. Jam. p. 184, Ratj. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 43. 
The Broad-Leaf-Treer 
This has a very large Trunc, and grows to a vaft Heighth, cover’d 
with a grey, or very light brown Bark, like that of Fiddle-wood- 
Trees, feeming to be loofe and come off of its felf in feveral long 
Pieces (like to the Bark of Hemp before ’tis much wrought) in many 
Places. It hath here and there fome Knobs or Eminencies on its Sur- 
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