ene 
The Natural Hiftoryof JAM ATG A, * 
On every Hand, fending out here and there Twigs befet with Leaves 
alternatively towards their End, they have Foorftalks an eehth of 
an Inch long, are three Inches: and a half in 1. 
: ength, and an Inch 
and a halt broad near the Ead, where broadeft ; - are thin, {mooth, 
fhining, very green, and when rub’d or bruis’d between the Fingers 
{mell not unpleafantly. On the Branches here and there come out the 
Flowers on 3 qrs. of an Inch long Footftalks; there appear at firft three 
green Leaves, then three yellowith green, thick Petalz, inclofing a round, 
rough, green Stylus or Knob, like a Button, which the ‘Petala or Leaves 
alling, encreafes by Degrees till it comes to be a‘very large’ Fruic, 
as big as one’s two Fifts, being turbinated, of an Irregular Shape, 
large towards the Footftalk, and ending in a Point; ic is yellowith 
green on the Out-fide, and cover’d with feveral {mal} pointed ‘Knobs 
or Tubercles, blunt and foft ; 
the Skin is thin, and- when ripe “the 
Pulp Fruic is as foft as Cuftards, being white, juicy, ‘of a fowr and 
{weet Taite mix’d, containing many oblong, roundifh, brown Szeds, a 
little flat, fhining, and having within them.a white Kernel of the fame 
Shape. 
ip is propagated by the Seed in Jamaica and the Caribes. rn 
When they are as yet unripe,. and about the Bignefs of Turneps, if 
fo drefs’d, they eat like thengs 0 . Gor A a 
.Dhe Fruit from its. Tafte: is% reckon’d’ one of” their pleafantest 
Fruits, it is cooling,’ and if: a ‘whole \one-be-eater it hurts Not, as 
Ovigda: faith. gral xi siitasd sfororitin Soi | 
Of the unripe Fruit prefs’dis made a Wine which is asclear as Water, 
and.is: good for Fluxes and Gankers in Childrens Mouths, 
Fhe. Wood is notvery ftrong. : : 
es eaves infus’d according to Pifo, or burnt and mix’d with Oil, 
according to Marcgr, being rubb’d upon‘an Apofteme, ripens, opens and 
heals it. a 
C. B. did not well: to make this the farhe with 'Duriones. 
If this be Lice, it as wellas the following, are kept feveral Days by 
rinkling on them) Salt Water, Boym. | ps Mh 
'P An Pisleios Portugal obferved this Fruit, in’ Brafile Purchas Lib. wl 
Cap. Ly. p. £307. and Ligon p. 38. & 70. faith it-taftes like /a mutty Melon 
and.is,fhaped like! an Ox’s Heart. : is i ckn 
X., Anowa maxtroa, foliis oblongis anguftis, fructu maximo luteo conotde. 
haere in axeol ag sdbmdio det, fark p.'204. Tab. 226. Rai Hift 
V ol... 3... Denar. p77» Anona zda fpecies, Ruyfch o Kiggetaer. Obf] tir hort, 
Ami. pe 133. Anona Steerbeck citric, p. ‘201. An Gaanabanus frutta an 
reo <p molliter acubeato, Plumier' pb: Am. p.43. Regt fat maf, #2 
186,,Gachimens de Bouton p. 63: Lawyen. Boy. lit. E. 2-F. eve ot. P, 20K ? 
r¢ 
Fhe Cuftavd Apple-Tvee.° as pence 
his Tree is largerin every Part than the former, «the ‘Branches. ate 
aut ee the Berk is fenacth and grey, the Leaves are longer, being 
five Inches long and one broad’ in the Middle, where broadélt, ‘and 
trough’d or hollow 3° the Flowers are longer, the Fruit bigger, of a 
deep yellow of Orange Colour, when ripe, the Membrane covering, 
it has) many. Lines \:ais’d and deprefs'd- in ir, making its Surface 
divided into many Aree, the Pulp is for Colour, Confiftence and fweet- 
ith, Tafte: like a Cuftard, wheticé® the Name, and the Seeds are black, 
oblong, deprefi’d and fhining, like thofe of the Sowr-/op only oe 
fmatley and blackef\ | 78% : toon 
