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"The Natural Hifory of JAM ATCA, 133. 
arbor Americana prenos ferens: pyriformes, ejufa. ib. Avogato Pear-Tree of 
Dampier, ap. J ; i 
The Albecato Pear-Tree, Hifp. Abacado, feu, Avocado, 
This Tree has a Trunc as thick as one’s Middle, with a light 
brown or grey afh-colour’d Bark, having very deep Furrows or Sulci 
in it, rifing co twentyor thirty Foot high; the Ends of the Branches 
have a great many ‘Leaves, ftanding without any Order on yellowifh 
half Inch long. Footftalks, they-are three Inches long, and one and a half 
broad: in the Middle, where broadeft, very {mooth and of a deep green 
Colour, with an Eye of yellow-in it, having one Rib in the Middle and fe- 
veral tran{verfe ones branch’dfrom it: Among the Leaves come out a fhort 
half Inch long Stalk, to which are faften’d ‘by fhorr Petioli from near 
the Bottom, Flowers: of a yellowifh green Colour, to which follows a 
Fruit fhaped like a Pear, as big as one’s two Hilts, greenifh on the ou: 
fide, having a {mooth Skin and a Pulp under it of an Inch int Thicknefs, 
which is green, foft, almoft infipid to the Tafte, and very nourifhing. Withiu 
this lies a naked great Kernelibigger than a Wallnut, having many Tu- 
bercles and Sulci on itS Surface, divifible into two great Lobes, berween 
which lies the young Sprout or Germen. 
It is planted and grows every where in. this Hand, | 
This is accounted one of the wholefomeft Pruits of thefe Countries, not 
only by Way of Difert, being eat with Juice*of*Lemons and Sugar to 
give it a Piquancy, but likewife for fupporting Life it felf Itis ufeful 
not only. on thefe: Accounts to ‘Men, but likewife to all Manner of Beafts;’ 
It is reckon’d a great Incentive to Venery, and fo fays Scaliger. : 
“Hawks ap. Hakl. p. 3- p. 464. found this Tree about Mexico. 
. There (in-the Way between Panauco and Mexico) groweth a Fruit 
which the Spaniards call Avocottes, it is proportion’d like an Egg, and 
as black as Coal, having a Stone in it, and it is an excellent good 
Fruit. Hortop ap. Hakl. p- 3. p- 492. - 
Hughes, p. 40. tells us that this Fruit nourifhes, ftrengthens, and is Ve- 
nereal ; and that it is eaten with Vinegar and Pepper. 
Clufius defcribes this Tree witha black Fruit, and ’tis: purplifh when 
ripe; he defcribed the Fruit by Hearfay, the re(t well, only it has a pen- 
tapetalous Flower. 
The Leaves dry, powder’d and ftrew’d on Wounds, cure Hemorhages. 
onft. | 
I The Fruit is eat with Salt and Plantain roafted, and is fit to makea 
Meal of, at Campeche, Cartagena, Cafaccas and Jamaica, Dampier. ; 
I believe the Synonimous Names in my Catalogue, p. 185, to belong to 
this Tree notwithftanding what is faid by Dr. Plakenet. p. 18 of his Man- 
tifa. Hernandex.. fol. 89. defcribes it with many Kernels, which may 
be a Variety. | 
XXVIL. Pruno vel Evonymo affinis arbor, folio alato, buxeo, fabrotundo, 
flore pentapetalo caruleo racemofo fructu aceris cordato, cujus cortex luteus cor- 
rugatus, femen unicum maju(culum nigricans nulo officulo tectum opertt. Cat. 
am. p.1%%, Tab, 222. Fig. 3,4,5,5- Guajasum Americanum lentilct folio 
Com. Hort. Amjt.p.17%. Guajacam arbor Indica baxi folio rotundiore flore 
purpareo, vulgo Bois Saint, Surian. Guajacan,Worm, Muf p.170, &177.Gua- 
jacum verum majus Mant. p. 96. Phyt. p. 4. Fig. 16. Guajacum legitimum, ceram 
tonia foliis aceris fruttu, C,H. B. M. Guajaicum minus verum §. Lionum 
Santtum, Munt. p. 5. Fig.t7. ia lalate lents[ct folio evonymi fruttu, 
