8 ilORTUS JAMATCENSIS. ItePKRiTiC 



NASEBERRY-TREE. ACHR \S. 



Cl. 6, on. \.Hexandria monogi/nia. Nat. on. Dumosa. 



&EX. char. iVc Bully-Tree, /j. 12+. 



SAPOTA. 



Annona folds laurinis glabris, viridi fuscis, fruclu tnin&re rotunda 

 viridi Jlavo, scabro, seminibus Juscis, splenderUibtts, fistitra alba y 

 notatis. Sloane, v. 2, p. 171, t. 230. Achras l \ 2. Broune, 

 p. 200, t. 19, f. 3. 

 Flowers solitary ; leaves lanceolate-ovate. 

 This tree rises to a considerable height, and is known also by the name olsapodilla ; 

 the trunk is straight, and covered with a dark brown bark. The branches shoot on all 

 sides towards the top, having twigs very thick beset with leaves, collected towards the 

 ends of the branches. in various circular clusters ; they are smooth, and of a dull green 

 colour. The flowers come out both from the axils and the ends of the 'twigs, mixed 

 among the leaves, singly, on peduncles the length of the petioles, inclining down- 

 wards, they are white, and almost closed. The fruit is a round berry, covered with a 

 rough brown coat, hard at first, but becoming soft wherr kept a few days to mellow, 

 about the size of a small apple, having from six to twelve cells, with several seeds in 

 each ; surrounded by the pulp, which, in colour, consistence, and taste, somewhat 

 resembles that of the English pear, but sweeter ; the seeds are smooth, shining black, 

 with a white streak on one edge, and within a hard shell, containing a white kernel, 

 which is bitter, and may be used in strengthening emulsions. All the tender parts of 

 this tree are full of a milky juice, as well as the fruit, while yewng. The bark is as- 

 tringent. Floane observes that the fruit, when tree-ripe, is so full of milk as to drop 

 out plentifully, when gathered, and, if cut, there appear little rills or veins of milk 

 quite through the pulp, which is so acerb as to draw the mouth together, and cannot 

 be eaten until kept some days till rotten as medlars. It is then an agreeable fruit 

 Sloane-also observes that the seeds are best raised from earth brought from under bas- 

 tard cedar trees. 



See Bully-Tree and Mammee Sapota. 



Navelworth See Pennyworth. . 



NEPHRITIC-TREE. MIMOSA. 



Cl. 23y or. 1. Polygamia monoecia. Nat. or. Lomentacac. 

 GEN. CIUR. See Cacoons, p. 137. 



ITCGUIS-CAT.I. catclaw. 



Acacia arbor ea major spinosa, pinnis quatuor, majcribus siiorotuvdij t 

 siliquis varie intortis. Sloane, v. 2, p. 56. Fru/icosa, J'oliis ovatif 

 binuto-binatis ; seviiiiibus comprcssis atra~nitentibus t Jiocculis ru~ 

 idlis adnatis. Browne, p. 252. 



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