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GEOPrROYA INERMIS. SMOOTH GEOFFROYA, 



Or, BASTARD CABBAGE-TREE. 



STNONTMA. Geoffea. Phanih Ed'inh, GeofFrasa jamaicencis 



inermis. Wr'ighf s Befcription and Ufe of the Cabbage-bark Tree of 



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Jamaica, PhiL Tranf vol 6j. /. 507. GeofFroya inermis 

 liolis lanceolatls. Swartz, Prodr 



Clafs Diadelphia. Ord, Decandria. Lm, Gen, Plant, 876. 



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Eff. Gen, Ch, Cal, 5-fidus. Brupa ovata. Nucleus comprelFus. 



Sp,Ch. G. inermis, foliolis lanceolatis. Swartz, I, c. 



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THIS tree rifes to a cohfiderable height, and towards the top 

 fends ofF feveral branches : the wood is hard enough to admit of 

 being poHihed : the external bark is finooth and grey, internally it is 

 black and furrowed : the leaves are pinnated, confifting of feveral 

 pairs of pinnae, which are lance-fhaped, pointed, veined, fmooth, 

 {landing in pairs upon fhort footilalks, but with an odd one at the 

 end ; the flowers appear in clufters upon large branched fpikes : the 

 ^ calyx is bell-fhaped, and divided into five fhort obtufe fegments : the 

 corolla is of the papilionaceous kind, of a pale rofe colour, confifting 

 of a vexiUum, which is roundifh, concave, and notched at the apex ; 

 two ^Z^, which are oblong, obtufe, concave, and fomewhat fhorter 

 than the vexillum, and an obtufe divided carina : the filaments are 

 ten, nine of which are united at the bafe : the antherse are fimple, 

 and roundifh: the germen is oval, and furnifhed with a tapermg 

 curved ftyle, which is terminated by a hooked ftigma : the fruit is 

 pulpy, refembling a fmall plum, and containing a hard nut or feed, 

 feparated into two valves, and marked on each fide with a longitu- 

 dinal furrow. 



This tree is a native of Jamaica, where it is difi:inguiilied by the 

 name of Cabbage-bark tree, or Worm-bark tree : the bark, which 



has a mucilaginous and fweetifh tafte, and a difagreeable fmeli, was 



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