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ACHRAS 3. Caudice altifflmo^ frutlu minor 7, femine mucronato. 



Anona maxima, &c. Slo. Cat. 206. & H. 1. 169. 



The Bully, or Nifberry Bully-Tree. 



This is called the Bully-tree, becaufe it generally grows the talleit of all the trees 

 in the woods : its fruit is fmall, and the feeds oblong and narrow. It is efteemed 

 one of the beft timber-trees in Jamaica. 



ACHRAS 4. Fruftu coriaceo fubrotundo verucofo, fe mini bus anguftis, margi 



mbus reclis. 



An, Xylobocion baccif er a f rondo/a. Pk. t. 238. f. 1. 



Beef- wood. 



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This tree is commonly called by the name of Beef- wood by nio/r people in J a 

 lica, from the flefhy colour of the interior bark. 



ACHRAS 5. FntcJu maximo ovato, feminibus paucioribus oblong is turgidis. 

 Malus Perlica maxima foliis magnis integris, Slo. Cat. 180. & H. t. 218. 



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The Mamee-fapote Tree. 





ACHRAS? 6. FruBibus minor ibus^glabris per ramos fparfis, feminibus fubro- tl~> ■ U ^ff 



Hindis, cicatriculd minima ovatd. 



The Baftard Bully-Tree. 



ACHRAS ? 7. Frudlu minori glabro, foliis ovatis, floribus confertis alaribus. -- .. ^^jUa. rub* 



The Mountain Baftard Bully-Tree. 



ACHRAS ? 8. Foliis oblongis nitidis uirinque produc~lis,floribus confertis , fafci- 



culis infra frondes fparfis. Tab. 1 7. fig. 4. 

 Salic is folio lato fplendente arbor, &c. Slo. Cat. 170. 6c H. t. 206. 

 An, Arbor, &c. Pk. t. 360. f. 4. 



The White Bully-Tree, or Galimeta- wood . 



Periantium Parvum penta- vel bexapbyllum, foliotis fuBtotundo-ovatis. 

 Corolla Monopetala campanulata, calice major; limbus in quinque vel fix 



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lacinulas ereftas oblongas ft 



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Neclarium. E fauce tubi furgunt nectaria totidem lacerata, lac. :h 



interpofita fed breviora, conniventia. 



Stamina. Filament a quinque vel fex fore longiora, laciniis corolla fupi 



fita & e tubo orta; anthers oblongce. 

 Piflillum. Germcn fubrotundum ; ftyltra brevh \ Rigmz crajiufculuw. 

 Pericarpium. Bacca fucculenta bilocularis. An quinque jo vel 12 locula 



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Semina. Nuclei folitarii oblongi, naucis propriis atroniteniibus fulco I 



tudinali not at is* tecli. 



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This tree grows to a conndcrable height, and is generally furnifhed with many 

 branches towards the top; but thefe rife irregularly, andatdiftant flages, astheyufually 

 appear in moil of our Firrs in Europe, It is commonly obferved to grow ftraight and 

 tapering, and moft frequently found in the lower lands, efpecially about Liguai. a and 

 Mangonel: it is of a pale yellow colour, and reckoned a good timber- wood, but is mc/ily 

 ufed in fuch parts of the building as are leaf* expofed to the weather. The berries of this 

 tree are black, fmooth, and very final! j and no part of the plant milky. All the fpecies 

 of this verms are found either growing naturally in the woods, or cultivat d in the 



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