The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
face, and very large and long Leaves, for which Caufe E refer it to 
this Place. at, 
It grows in all the inland great Woods of this Ifland, and becaufe 
it was very high, 1 could never come to defcribe the Parts of it more 
particularly. 
XXIIL. Arbor, forte prunifera, folio febrotundo glabro, venis purpareis. Cat. 
fam. p. 184. Tab. 221, Fig. 2. Razj. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 43 
This had a very large Leaf, being roundifh, about a Foot long and 
nine Inches broad near the further End where round and _ broadeft, 
beginning from a fhort Footftalk, narrow, and augmenting in Breadth 
to near its End. This Leaf is even on the Edges, having one middle 
and feveral tran{verfe dark brown or purplith, colour’d Ribs, and is fmooth 
on its Surtace. Becaufe of its Largenefs I refer it hither. 
I gather’d it in the Woods of Famaica. 
XXIV. Prunus racemofa, caudice non ramofo, alato fraxini folio non crenato- 
frutu rabro fubdalcr, Cat. Fam. p. 184. Tab. 222. Fig. 1. Raij. Hift. Vol. 
3. Dena. p- 44: 
The Maiden-Plamb-Tree. 
This Tree has a ftraight undivided Stem, twelve or fifteen Foot high, 
not much bigger than an ordinary walking Stick, very brittle and cally 
broken, and cover’d with a grey Bark; the Leaves are only about 
the Top, fpreading themfelves om every Hand, being winged, about 
fourteen Inches long, bythe Middle Rib whichis roundifh, Purple on 
one Side and green on the other; the Pinne are fet on by Pairs not 
juft oppofite to one another, at an Inch and a half’s Diftance, having 
{carce any Footitalks, being three Inches long and more than one broad 
near the Middle where broadeft, of a very dark green Colour and fmooth, 
having a middle and fome tran{verfe apparent Nerves. The Top of the 
Tree is branch’d out above the Leaves into many tender and fmall foot 
long Branches, fuitaining feveral Flowers, each whereof confifts of three 
Apices or Petala, with fome yellow Stamina, to which follows a Fruit 
of the Bignefs and Colour of the largeft Cranberries, biggeft at the Bot- 
tom and tapering to the Top, and containing within a fmooth, thin, 
red Skin, a liquid, fweetifh Pulp, in which is a large Kernel of the Shape 
of the Fruit, lying in a very thia Shell. 
It grows on the Road between Paffage-Fort and the Town of St. Fago 
de la Vega, and on the woody Savanna’s, as well as on the red Hills going 
to Guanaboa, 7 
Ic is pretty plain that this Tree differs from all the foregoing Trees, 
and is alfo not the fame with the pranifera arbor Madera /patana malt 
Perfice foliis rugofis, Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 312. Fig. 2. Alm. p. 307. tho’ the 
Dr. thinks they may be all the fame with this, 
XXV. Pranifera racemofa; folio alato; cofta media membranulis wtringue 
extantibus donata, fruttu faponario. Cat, Fam. p. 184. Sapindus foliis cofte 
alate innafcentibus, Tournef. p.659. An faponaria arbor Indica Aman, Hort. 
Bo: p. 32? Noulourhoue faponaria altera, arbor racemofa coscigera, pro pre- 
caria corolla ¢ fapone Indians utuntur, Sarian. Nux Americana folits alate 
bifidis feu Knippa Herm. par. pat. p. Hort Amft: p.183. Ao prunifera fee 
nuci prunifers, fructu faponario, minore fufeo ex infaula Famaicenli, Plaken, 
Almag. p. 266% Saponarte [pharule Gontaat. muy. Swammed. p. 15. rie 
