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 PITHECOLOBIUM SAMAN, Benth. 



GUANGO. 



Native of tiopical America. Naturalised in Jamaica. 



A large spreading tree, often 6 feet in diameter, with compound 

 leaves, reddish flowers, and long pods. (Leguminosce.) 



Wood hard and ornamental, but it is cross-grained and difficult to 

 saw. 



Pons are a very fattening fodder. The trees form a good shade in 

 pastures. 



" Found on the coast, but growing to perfection on the alluvial 

 plains of St. Catherine and Clarendon, and in the Plantain Garden 

 Valley. A large spreading tree, with a short stem and a diameter up 

 to five feet at the base. Grown in pastures and yields a very sweet 

 pod eagerly eaten by horses and stock. Introduced with cattle from 

 the mainland.'' (Hooper.) 



PLANTAIN. See Musa paradisiaca. 



PLUM, DATE. See Diosptros tetrasperma. 



PLUM, MAIDEN. See Comocladia integrifolia. 



PODOCARPUS CORIACEUS, Rich. 



Yacca. 



Native of West Indies. A tree 50 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, with 

 acute tip. (Conifer 02.) 



Wood. u This is one of our most prized ornamental woods and 

 much used in furniture and cabinet work. The most flowery speci- 

 mens grow on the Blue Mountains, where it is crooked and cross- 

 grained. In other elevated parts of the island it is straight and yields 

 capital building and furniture wood, but not so well adapted for orna- 

 mental purposes as that grown on the Blue Mountains. Its largest 

 growth is about 18 inches in diameter." (Harrison.) 



" Blue Mountains, elevations above 4,800 feet to the summit. Up to 

 two feet in diameter in favourable localities, with stem of 40 feet. It 

 is well distributed over the limited area it occupies. All accessible 

 large trees have been cut. The timber gives beautifully-marked 

 planks, used in cabinet work, also in the interior of finishing of dwel- 

 ling-houses." (Hooper.) 



PODOCARPUS PURDIEANUS Hook. 



Yacca. 



Native of Jamaica and Cuba. 



A large tree, 120 feet high ; leaves narrow, with blunt tip. (Ooni 

 ferce.) 



