-STLiMRt HORTUS JAIVIAICENSTS, S7 



This is a brancliy ^I't inelejrant tree ; the trunk is covered by a brownish bark ; the 

 leaves have nlter.iatc footstulks, are entire, oblong, veined, smooth, acuminate, nifCririn 

 tindiilated, dry, laurel-like, arrowing in a heap at the extremities of the branches ; tlie 

 f, lotstalks have a swelling on Iioth sides ; the racemes are short and compact, generally 

 proceeding from the larger branches. Tlie corolla is pale vellovv, the segments being 

 each marked on the inside with three purplish groovufs, ttie sinell of which is very un~ 

 pleasant. The negroes in Jamaica call it A/f/fj/ or cc/;/, where the seeds are used by 

 -themselves, or mixed with capsicum, for complaints in the bell}-. 



Although this tree was but seven years old, raised from seed, which was brouglti; 

 from Guinea, yetjt was twenty feet high, had a trunk as thick as the talf of one's leg, 

 straight and round, covered with an almost smooth, reddish brov/n, bark, with greyish 

 or white spots liere nnd there, the boughs were spread an all hands, those lower being 

 the longest ; the twigs \ve\:e on their further ends beset with very many leaves, set close 

 by one another, and for the most part fr[:>positc. The footstall^s were two inches long, 

 having a swelling at the coming out of the twigs, and another near the leaf itself, which 

 was six inches long, and two broad at the middle, where broadest, smooth, thin, hav- 

 ing one iniddle rib, sending transverse ones to the sides, hard, aiur exactly like the 

 cacao tree. The blossoms are several, coming out from the branches themselves, pcn- 

 ffepetalous, though all th:^ petala be joined at bottom, yellow and purple striped, with 

 a veilow stilus, standing on the ends of green branciied stalks, three inches long, to 

 which follotvs a large, short, thick, and broad pod, within which lie several great beans 

 or seeds, about which is an edible sweet pulp. The seed brought in a Guinea ship 

 from thirt country wis here planted iiy Mr. GofFe, in Colonel Bonrden's plantation be- 

 yond GnanaI)o:i. It is called kir/ij/ by the Coromant^n negroes, and is both eaten anS 

 sajsed for fj^ysic in pains of the belly. i'loane. 



BiDEXs ftr Watf.r Hemp AortniONY. 

 Bilberry Vee Jamaica Bilberry. 



BTr.TMB^ FRUIT. AVERRHOA. 



"Cl. 10, OR. 4. Decandria penfa^i/nia. Nat. or. Gruinales. 



This name was given in honour of Ebu Elvelid Ebu Rushad, commonly called Averi^ 

 hoes, of Corduba in Spain, a very learned man, who died at the beginning of the 1 3th 

 century. 



Gkn. char. Calyx a five-leaved perianthium ; corolla five petaleJ, lanceolate pe- 

 tals ; stamina setaceous, alternately the length of the corolla and shorter, with 

 roimui-;h anthers ; tlie pistillum has an oblong germen, setaceous styles, and sint- 

 ple stigmas; the pericarpiuin is a turbinate pome, five-cornered, five-celled'; 

 seeds angular, separated by membranes. Oidy one species has been introduced, 

 a native of India, 



BILIMBI. ^ 



Trunk naked, fruit-bearing> pomes oblong, obtuse angled. 



This plant grows only aboiit eight feet high, with reclining branches; the leaves 



have 



