iiAicvTOTl HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. u 



are two seeds inciosed in the same pericarp. From the above description it appears . 

 that tiiis tree, altliough it agrees in many respects, yet differs very much from the for- 

 mer si>ecies. The Spaniards call it viunglt bobc, ur I'oolish mangle. Sloane calls it . 

 the white mangrove. 



These trees have no great beauty. They grow in most of the sandy bays and marshes 

 about the island, and may be propagated by seeds, slips, or cuttings. The fruit is 

 drying, binding, and healing; and the bark tans leather well. 



All-heal Sec Self-heal. 



ALLIGATOR APPLE OR CORKWOOD ANNONA 



Cl. 13, Oft. 7. Pvlyandria polygynia. Nat. Oil. Coadunatte. 



This plant has also been termed the shining leaved custard apple. The name of t':e ge- , 

 nus can boast of no learned derivation, Linnens having adoptej it fronian jVnierican term 

 fdr a mess, on account of the fruit of some of the species being so called b, tiie natives. ' 



Gen. CHAR. Calyx a small three-ieaA'ed perianthium ; corolla six- petalled, cordate, 

 and sessile, the three alternate interior ones less ; the stamina have scarcely any fila- 

 ments, the anthers numerous and placed on the receptacit- ; gern.en roundish, and 

 placed on a roumlisli receptacio, no styles ; . numerous obtuse stigmas covering the 

 whole germ ; the pericarpium a large roundish berry, one-celleJ, witli a scaly bark ; 

 seeds many, hai J, ovate-oblong, [)laced in a ring, nestling. I'licre are several spe- 

 cies indigcnoas to this island, referred to below ; the alligator appie is the 



FALUSTRL^;. 



Annona aquatica foliis lauririis atravirentibus, fruclu rainore conou'e 

 luten, cortice glabro in area/as distincto. Sloane. v 2, p. 169, t. 228, 

 f. 1. Uliginosa, Joliis nitidis oiaiis, Jractibiis arcclatus odoratis, 

 Browne, 256. 



Leaves oblong, rather obtuse, smooth ; fruits ai'eolatc. 

 This tree rises thirty or forty feet, the trunk as thick as one's middle ; the leaves are 

 shaped like those of the bav, smooth, dark green, and hard. The truit is as big as 

 cole's fist, turbinated like a sour sop, hanging by an inch-long foot-stalk, wh;ci; .briogs 

 out some of the pnip with it, when ripe, leaving a hole in the fruit. Taeoucvvdid 

 i.kin is first sreen, thtn jellow, smooth, only it bath some checqutred lines on its sur- 

 face, as the custard apj)le. The seeds lie from the centre to the circumference ot cne 

 fruit, and are as large as a betm, oblong, almost round, of an ash colour, having a ci- st' 

 running their lengths, lying in an orange-coioured pulp, of an unsavouiy laste, but 

 has something of the smell and relish of an orange. Sloane. 



It grows in great abundance about the south side lagoons, and on the banks of spve- ' 

 ral ii\( rs. The fruit or E{.'ples are large, and of a cold watery quality, esUca ed hijjhly 

 narcotic, and even poisonous ; but of the latter we have no ctrtaiu proof. Wnen tiiey 

 are ripe, and drop into the .v;,;-. r. the a.ligators watch their tailing, and, at tise projir 

 Sicasoa of the year, are sui lit thietiy upon them, They have a sweetish Uis'.o ' 



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