BULLY-TREE. ACHRAS. 



Cl. 6. OR. 1. Hca:andriam:mogT/mc, Wat. oR. Buynos.-e. 

 This generic name is derived from the Groek i;ame c>f a tree in Theophrastus, corn 

 monly translated the wild pear. 



Gen, char. Caiyx a six-!eafed perianth ; leaflets ovate, concave, erect ; outer 

 ijroader, shorter, inner-coloured'; corolla one-petalled, ovate, of the sameheight 

 v.ith the calyx ; border cut into six sub-ovri:ie flat divisions ; scales at the jaws of 

 the corolla, equal in length -to the divisi<3ns, narrower, spreading, emarginate ; 

 ihe stainliia are short awl-shaped fdanaents at the jaws of the corolla, alternate,, 

 v/ith the divisions bent inwards, with s4rdrp-aytheis ; the pistil has a roundish flat- 

 ted germ, aw!-sbaped styie, longer than the corolla ; stigma obtuse ; the pericarp 

 is a globose siiccilent pome, twelve-celled-, seeds solitary, ovate, shining, scared 

 on one side, and pointed at the base. Two species only are reckoned in this island 

 the mammosa, ot viaimnee sapota, and the */;/.'/, or iiaseberiy. The naseberry 

 buliy-tree has been thought only a variety of the former, but is certainly a very 

 distinct species. 



Species DoubfJuL 



Anona maxima, foliis laurinis giabris mridi fusch,'/ruciii r/iimmo 



roiundo viridi Jlavo, senmizhiis fuscis, splcndentibus, fissura alba 



noiQ.tis. Sloane, v. 2, p. 172, t. 169, f. 2. Caudice altissimp 



J'ructti ininori, scmine nmcronato.. Browne, p. 201'. - / 



The naseberry bully-tree has a trunk as big as an oalc, and riseth much liighee hav- 



nutmeg, having its outward skin rough like a naseberry. The W^?f^ nrst austere, 

 but^ after lying, swe^i., and has within it a great many oblong, p^Pyessed, blacK, 

 -shining, seeds, with a white edge, sht, or fissure, exactly like tb^ oi thf nasebenyj. 

 only in every thing larger. It is one of the largest trees in the^and, and the timber 

 af great use. The fruit is eaten and not unpleasant. S'loan^ 



TKlc ;. =n r!.llpd bv tl.r .fnmflirans. for its fruit wheiv^"^ '^ ^s black as a buliy or 



This is so called by the Jamaicans, for its fruit w^hen^p >s as niactc as ? buUy o 

 damson, but in shape ofaLucca olive; pigeons f.^uch upon tiiem, and they maks 

 them very fat : its timber is very strong and I astiiv'^^'^' '''*'"> -V- 25. 



The naseberry is called the bully-tree, "bj^'^^ '^ generally grows the tallest of all 

 the trees in the woods: its fruit is sma!U^^^^^^%^,ffl^ oblong and narrov/. It is es. 

 teemed one' of the best tunber trees of^"''^^'^^- The bark of the naseberry bully-tree 

 (as well as all s])ecies of the achras) V^l T T^yp^t""^^"'' and all indiscriminately 

 Lw go by the ime of ..r/..r /.H^''^^^ ^hf';^^^^ 



imposed on some of the people C-Jf^&i^lf'^f the one or the other to be the true 

 Jesuits bark, and on this acc^^^'^f, frequently administered hem aniong the negroes, 

 where they were often obj^^^'^ to answer all the purposes of tnat medicine as all bitter 

 astringents will do on rp>^^ constitutions when the disease proceeds immediately from 

 a weakness of the visci-^ ^nf ^ gross undigested chyle : this brought them first into 

 3omevo"-ue and tV"^"^'='^ ^'^^" frequently, since that time, brought into England 



