The Natural EHiftory of JAMAT C A 
their Edges, always regarding the Centre, bigeer than tho 
Nifperas, adh of which is cae in a thin, waite Menthe 7 an 
Fruit be cut athware the Places where the Seeds were lodg’d will re 
prefent a Star, whence the Name as well may be derived, as from 
the likenefs that the Pulp has to what is called, Fallen-Star-Jelly, 
It doth not grow here /ponte, but the Seeds are dropt as thofe of o- 
ther Fruit ‘T'rees, and by them propagated, they thriving very well 
and growing without any farther Care. 
It is ufed by Way of Deffert as other Fruits, is not very unplea- 
fant, and is thought from fome Signatures, and Similitudes to be 
very much provoking to Venery. 
The Fruit is fmallin the Ifles, on the Continent it is as large asa Tennis 
Ball (as all Lever faw were) in otlier things they are alike, being whole- 
fome, and of good Digeftion. Many are fold in Sio. Domingo in the Seafon ; 
the Timber is {trong and good to work upon, if it be not ufed before 
it is feafon’'d, or when too green, Oviedo. 
They grow in Perz, Laet. and in the Ifles about Panama. Dampier- 
Ravenau de Luffan p. 45. found this Tree in the pleafant Iles of the 
South-Sea in the Bay of Panama. 
- Dr, Plukenet has confounded this, the Sapadilla and feveral other Trees 
together. | 
XEXV~ Anos, folits lanrinis glabris, viridi-fufcis, fructu minore rotunda 
viridivflava, feabro, feminibus fufces, [plendentibid, fiffura alba, notatis, Cat. 
Fam. p. 206. Tab. 230. Retj. Hift. Vol. 3. ‘Dendr. p. 78. Sapadilloe-Tree 
Of Dampier caps 7°) 
The NMafebery, i. es Melpilas Hifp. and in Pottuguefe Nefperia, or, 
1 O18 ——-Sappadilla-Tree. 
o'This ‘Tree rifeth up with a ftreight Trunc, cover’d with a datk 
brown Bark, having fome Sw/c# in it towards the Bottom, to about 
thirty Foot high; its Branches rife ftreight up likewife, the Ends of 
the Twigs inclining downwards, being very thick fet with Leaves ; 
they ftand on Inch long ets rar are. four Inehes long and one 
and a half broad, ‘where broadeft, fmooth, thin, fhining, and of a ve» 
ry dirty green Colour; the Flowers come out at .the Ends of the 
Twigs, may together, every’ one having its diftinét three quarters 
of an Inch long Footftalk, on which! are’ fix pale green Leaves, 
and one round, white, monopetalous Bell-fower, fwelling in the Mid- 
dle and growing’ lefs towards the Top like the Flowers of Aalet 
or Lilium Convallium, having green Stamina, to which fucceds a Fruit o 
the Bignef§ and Colour of an ordinary Ruffeting-Apple, being round ; its 
outer Skin is rough, having within a fweet, brownifh, ey Pulp, when 
ripened with lying, feveral fmooth, black’ Seeds, fhining, with a whice 
Slit on-one Edge, ‘and’ within’ it a pretty hard Shell, containing a white 
Kernel. 
The whole and all Parts of this Tree, the Wood excepted, are milky, 
and the Bruit it felf' whem Tree ripe, is fo full of Milk, as to drop out 
plentifully when gather’d, and if it be cut there appear little Rills or 
Veins of Milk, quite throt the Pulp, and then ’tis’ fo acetb and ungrates 
fully auftere, as ‘to: draw the ‘Mouth together, and therefore is not to 
be eaten ‘till rotten ‘as ‘Mediars © - ee 
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