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The Natural Hiflory of JAMAICA. 
They grow on an Ifland near Campeche, and on the main Continent 
in feveral Places, where they aflord Meat for Monkies and Tygers, but 
here in Sfamaica none grow but what are planted by Sced, and that 
with Difficulty, being to be caken Care of by the beft Soil broughe 
from under Baflard-Cedar-Trees. Concerning the Reafon of which, fee 
the Defcription of that Tree. 
Their greateft Ufe is by Way of Deffert as other Fruits, they com- 
mending themfelves fufficiently to all Pallats by their grateful Tafte. 
Ravenau de Luffan, p. 45. and Dampier found this Tree inthe pleafant 
Ifles by Pazama in the South-Sea. 
Dr. Plukenet Tab. 269. Fig. 3. Alm. p. 45. figures fome other Tree 
for this, perhaps one of the Plumb-trees before defcrib’d: 
XXXVI. Anona maxima, foliis laurinis glabris viridi fufcis, fructu mi- 
nimo rotundo viridi flavo, feminibus fufcis, [plendentibus, fiffura alba nota- 
tis. Cat. Fam. p. 206. Tab. 169. Fig. 2. Raij. Hit. Vol. 3. Dendr, 
f° 2s } 
The Bull-Tree. 
This, which is of the fame Kind with the Né/peras, only a larger 
Tree and fmaller Fruit, has a Trunc as big as an Oak, and riteth 
much higher, having a Bark of a light brown Colour, very rough, 
with very deep Furrows in it ; the Braaches, which are many, are 
at their Ends befet with a great many Leaves. without any Or- 
der, each of which has an Inch long Footftalk, is four Inches long, 
and two broad, of an oval Shape, green Colour, being fmooth, thin and 
dry, having. from. one middle: Rib feveral tranfverfe ones. The Fruit 
comes among the Leaves upon Inch long, Footftalks, they are round, 
about the Bignefs of a Nutmeg, having their outward Skins rough 
like, thofe of the Ni/pera, or Kafferings to which in Colour! they are 
tike: The Pulp is firit auftere, but atter lying, fweet, and ;has with- 
in it a great many oblong, comprefs’d, black, fhining Seeds, with a 
white Edge, Slit, or Fiffure, exactly like that of -the Vi/peras, only. 
in every thing larger. : : bn : 
Jt is one of the largeft Trees in the mountainous Woods: of this: 
Ifland. ) 
The Timber is of great Ufe for making of Shingles to cover 
Houfes, for which it is very proper. } | 
The Fruit ‘is eaten, and 1s not unpleafant. Aw 
a one of the beft and, ftrongelt, Timber Trecs..in the Iflands, 
Oviedo. ee ae ae i" y act 
“It is not pleafant unlefs macerated. in. Water thereby to ‘part with 
its -iaice, Sees. . * ah rise 
Ligon. p. 14. {peaks of it in the Cape-Verde-Tfles,and Barbados.) p. 41- 
where he fays that it affords good ‘Timber, and p, 73. that the Fruit 
is ike a Bullace. | 
“XEXVIL, Arbor cucurbitifera Americana folio fubrotando. Rai Hifi. 
Cat. fam. p..206.. Arbor :cucurbitifera Americana, folio longo, mucronato, 
frudia oblong 0, Commel, Hort. Amff. p:.137> Toutou Lagenarta arbor, In- 
dica fruttu cucarbitino tumido Cr amplo.e. trunco enafcens, SyriatasT aboe. 
Lagenaria arbor altera, fructu minore, quo Indi loro .difcs mtuntars, Bj. it 
Cujete foliis oblongis G anguftis, magno fructu ovato, Plam. pl. aes 23. 
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