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REMALOXYLUM 



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Sprno/um, foliolis pinna t is t race mis terminaUbus. 



Ha?maloxylum. L. H. C. & Sp. Plant. 



Lignum Campechianum, /pedes quadam Braf. &c Sio. Cat. 213. & II, 



t. 231. 



Coath, £fV. Hernandes 1 1 9. & Lignum Nephriticum. Oil. 



Logwood. 



This flirub was firft introduced to Jamaica from fomc part of the main, and is 

 now cultivated in many parts of the ifland. It thrives belt in low fwampy lands, 

 or (hallow waters, where the bottom is rich and moderately firm ; and feldom riles 

 above twelve or fourteen feet in height, or exceeds feven inches in diameter; but 

 the trunk is generally fhort and uneven. This wood is the chief ingredient in 1 

 purple dyes, and a principal one in our beft blacks. It gives a purple tincture by 

 infufion, which is eafily changed, or heightened, by acid or alkalious admixtures ; and 



vanes its appearance in different pofitions, like the Opal, or the feathers of a pea- 

 cock. Both the bark and gum of this tree are gentle fubaft ri ngents - t but tlie J ft 

 excels, and adds a fweetnefs to its virtue, which nukes k the more agreeable to thi 

 palate* 



BUCERAS 1. Ramulis flexuofis i ehuhribm ', foliis cbovatis con/eitis % fpicis 



plurimis terminaUbus. Tab. 2?. f. 1. 

 angle Julifera, foliis fubrotiindis conftrtis, etc. Slo, Cat. 1 56. 





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The Black Olive, or Bark-Tree, 



Periantium Monophyllum urceolatum, inferne ventrkofitm fubrotundum^ 



collo coar&atum >, limbus ercfto-patulus, integer* 



Corolla Nulla. 



Stamina. Filamenta decern ereBo-patentia, limbo paulo longiora & e collo 



Piftillum. 



calicis enata. ■ Antherae ereBcz cor data. 

 Germen cblongum in fundo calicis fitum & adnatum ; ilylus 

 /implex longitudine ftaminum ; fligma acutiu/culum. 

 Pericarpiunii Calix una cum germine mutatur in cap/ulam urceolatam uni- 

 loculars w, qua? ft men uni cum oblongo-ovatum invohit. 





This tree is called the Black-Olive in Jamaica ; but in Antigua , where it is 

 equally common, goes by the name of French Oak. It is a native of the lower 

 fwampy lands, or adjoining banks, and grows to a very confiderable (ize : it is fre- 

 quent about the Ferry> and remarkable for its (lender crooked branches, and the 

 tufted difpofition of its leaves. On the flower-fpikes of this tree you may fometimes 

 find one or more fructifications, that (hoot into a monftrous fize, being feldom under 

 three inches in length, tho' never above a line and a half in diameter ; and fome- 

 thing in the form of a bull's horn. It is reckoned an excellent timber-tree j and the 

 bark is greatly efteemed among the tanners. 



HYMENi^A 1. Foliis geminatis parallelis, paginis inceaualibus, racemis 



terminatricibus. 



Hymenal. L. H. C. 6c Species Plant. 



Courbaril Plum. t. 36. /ed corolla inaccurate deli neat a eft. 



Ceratia dipbyllos Antegoan 



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Refina Lutea pallida, &c. Slo. Cat. pag. 216. & H. t86 



Jataiba 



Pifoi23. 



The Locus Tree 



Periantium Duplex ; exterius biphyllum amplexum deciduum ; mtenus p 



iphyllu 



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ad ba/im /ere Jetf, 



I acini t s 



ovatis. 



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