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Myrobalanus minor, folio fraxini, alato, fruflu purpurea &c. Slo. Cat 



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& H. t. 219. fed male depifta, 



The Spanijfj Plumb Tree. 



Per ian t i u m Monophyllum p 



Corolla Pentapetala, petalis parvis lanceolat 

 Stamina. 



ad medietatem quinquepartitum 



eretlo-patentibus 



Milium 





Filament a decern ', quorum quinque petalis interpofit a funt\ cater a 

 vero paulo minora funt & petalis fuppofita. Antherse cor data, 

 Germen ovatum-, ftyli ut plurimum tres, quandoque quatuor, bre- 

 ves ; ftigmata obtufiufcula. 



Pericarpium. Bacca fucculenta fubrotundo-ekngata unilocular is •, line a lon- 

 gitudinal! notata. 



Naucum ligneo-fibrofum folidum incequale tri- vel quadriloculare, 



Semina 



nucleis folitariis reft 



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a fmall fpreading 



which feldom rifes above 



twelve feet 



height : its foliage is of a dark gloomy g 



bloffoms fall 



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and generally begins to (hoot as th 



cultivated by many for the fake of the fruit, which is pretty 



pleafant, although not held in any great efteem in J 



where they are 



ays furnifhed with a great variety of the richeft fruits. There is a Variation of 

 this plumb, called the Leather-coat, from the appearance of its fkin ; but this pro- 

 ceeds from the dry foil in which it is produced. This, as well as the two fol- 



:on-tree. and fome other 



Thi 

 g fpecies, the firft fort of maiden-plumb, the filk 



American pi 



getate fo eafily, that a limb or branch ftuck into the ground 



feldom fails to (hoot up a-new; and generally appears 

 with roots and leaves like the parent (talk 



few weeks, fupplied 



It is remarkable that in this, and many other American bacciferous plants, where 

 the cup (lands under the germen, the embrio is always furrounded by a fleftiy navel, 

 which fwells as that increales, and forms the pulp gradually about it. 



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SPONDIAS 2. Foli is pancioribus pinnatis ovatis nitidis, racemis terms 



naltbus. 



Spondias. L. H. C. & Sp. PI. 



Prunus Brafilieyifis. Slo. Cat. 182. &; H. 



The Hog Plumb Tree. 



SPONDIAS 3. Foliis plurimis pinnatis ovatis, racemis terminalibus, cortice in- 

 terne rubenti. 

 Myrobalanus folio fraxini alato, fruflu luteo. Slo. Cat. & H. t. 219. 1,2. 



The yellow, or Jamaica Plumb Tree. 



It is not eafy to determ 



height 



hether the two lad pi 



different 



they are indeed very like each other, and rife generally to a very coniiderabl 



hether they grow in the low lands 



The leaves are larg 



d oval in both, and the fruit much of the fame appearance : but the nut or (hell 



ppears as 



if 



had been compofed of lis;nous fibres ftrongly interwoven and 



ecled into a 



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in all 



<P 



upright, and grow in an even circular order round the germen in thefe two fo 



The filaments of the flower ftand 



and 



ffyles are always four 



prefTed, and 



ged at the top. The fruit of the 



thofe illands, and fupplies the 



fecond fpecies is much efteemed by fome people in 

 principal part of the food of the wild hogs in the feafon. 



MALPIGIA i. Viminea foliis oblongis hifpidis, racemis alaribus. 







Malpigia. Plum. t. 36. 



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