30 DIANDRIA. 



of the bay, but of a much stronger aromatic smell; 

 the flowers stand in bunches, and are of a greenish 

 colour ; these are succeeded by the fruit, which the 

 Negroes gather before it is ripe, and dry it in the 

 sun ; in drying, it becomes wrinkled and brown, 

 though before, smooth and green. The tree grows 

 naturally in hilly places in the north part of Jamaica. 

 The churches in the West Indies are usually adorned 

 at Christmas with small boughs of Pimento as we 

 decorate ours in England, at the same time of the year, 

 with Holly and Ivy. 



