7(3 HOST us JAMAICENSrS.. bat 



ponJcrons, and capable of being polished ; used for the cogs of- wheel; in miUworKV 

 iind in otiier works where considerable fiiction is required. The younger branches are 

 acutely four-cornered and green ; leaves numerous, quite entire, shining, bright green, 

 with transverse voinn, blunt, attenuated into a short petiole, always opposite, com- 

 monly ihree or four inches long, of a very sweet aromatic smeii, and,, en accoact ot 

 their agree:u>ie asinngenoy, are used for sauce willi food. The flowers are small, 

 white with a slight tinge of reLiness ; 'the berries round, the size of peas, crowned witli. 

 the remains of the calyx, having an aroinatic smell and taste, which rendef ihein agree- 

 able for culinary purposes ; they contain about seven or eight seeds. 



This tree is a native of several of the V/est India islatuls, ixnd in Grenada is called 

 Bois d'lnde. Browne says it is common in Antigua and Jamaica, as v/eU as Barbadoes, 

 and grows generailv to a considerable size ; that it fills the woods with the fragrant smell 

 of its leaves, neaiiv resembling that of cinnamon, but that the hark has no warmth of 

 that sort, though the berries n^senible cloves very much,, both in form and flavour. It 

 is comraonly called wild cinnamni, or wild clove Iree , and is said to be the bayhtrrij of 

 Hughes, it does not seem, however, to be very accurately di^ilinguishcd from the- 

 pimenta. 



Sec Bastard GREEXHE.^RT Black citerry Myrtle Pimenta Silver tree. 



BAT OR SEA-SIDE GRAPE. GOCCOLOBA. 



0,1.. S, OR. 3. Oclandria trigynia. Nai\ or. Holoracew. 



This was so named by Browne,, from the kernel being lobed at bottom. 



Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed, five-parted perianthium, divisions oblong, obtuse, 

 concave, spreading most wiilely, coloured, permanent : there is no corolla ; sta- 

 mens subulate, patulous, shorter than the calyx ; anthers roundish, twin ; the 

 pistil has an ovate trigonal germen, v.ith short filiform spreading styles, and 

 simple stigmas ; no pericarp ; calyx berried, thickened, converging ; invohnng 

 the seed, v/hich is aii ovate nut, acute, one-celled. There are six species, na= 

 tives of Jamaica. 



1. UVIFER.!^. GRAPE-BEARING. 



Primus maritima racemosa, folio rotimdo glahm, Jntchi minore pur-^ 

 pureo. Sloane, v. 2, p. 129, t. 220, f.'S, 4, 5. Foliis crassis or- 

 biadatis, sinu dpcrto. Browne, p. 209. 



Leaves cordate-roundish, shining. 

 Sloane calls this the Jiiangrove giape tree, and says it has several ten or twelve foot 

 high trunks, covered with a reddish brown smooth bark, and furnished with thick, 

 veined, shining, orbicular, leaves, about six inches diameter, standing upon short 

 footstalks. The flowers com.e out at the wings of the stalks, in racemes fire or sixinchei 

 long ; they are whitish, smelling like those of the cherry. After tiiem follow the 

 berries. 



It hath a verj' large leaf in the shape of a horses hoof, and its fruit is as big as a com* 

 mon grape,^ an'd, whea full ripe, of a blueish black. Until tliey are thoroughly ripe 



there 



