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In the fruit of this 

 between the valves an 



(which feems very nearly allied to the Samyda) th 



of a beautiful red 



as well as 



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nd the 



filaments of the flower very numerous. The tree grows to a considerable fize, and 



is efteemed a fine timber-wood: it is much ufed in all forts of buildings. 



CHRYSOBALANUS 1. Fruticofus, foliis orbicularis alternis, foribus laxe 



racemofs. Tab. 17. f. 5. 

 Chryfobalanus. L. Gen. 8c Sp. Plant. 

 Icaco. Plum. t. 5. & Pk. t. 217. f. 1 & 2. 



The Cocco Plumb Tree. 



This fhrub is very common both in' St. Elizabeth's and Portland, and feems to 



thrive beil: in a cool moid: foil. It grows generally to the height of feven or eight 



feet, and bears a fruit not unlike our European plumb, either in fize or fhape: 

 of thefe, fome are black, fome white; but no efiential difference appears in the 

 fhrubs that bear them. The fruit is infipid, and contains a large nut, marked with 

 five longitudinal furrows: it inclofes a fingle kernel of a very pleafant flavour; 

 which makes up abundantly for the infipidity of the pulp; and for which it probably 

 had been fo much efteemed by the native Indians. When this fhrub is planted in a 

 dry funny foil, the fruit remains always a dry drupa ; the nut being covered only by 

 a thin fkin 01 bark. 



SLOANEA ? 1. Foliis majoribus, oblongo-ovatis, integris t venis arcuatis re- 



fertis. 



An, Sloanea. ^Plum. pag. 49. t. 15. 







An, Jacapucaia. Pif. 155. An, arbor, Sec. Thez. Zey. pag. 255 ? 



The large oval-leafed Sloanea > or Brake-axe Tree. 



Pericarpium. 



Sem 



Capfula magna, cordata, obtufe quadrigona, crnjja, lignea, 

 jibris radiatis texta, & denticitlis ereftis rigidis numen 

 fftimis oppofta-, qnadrivalvis, quadrilocularis, quadrifc 



b a pice Qji bafim dehifcens. 



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Nuclei duo, tres, vel pi 

 pulpd crocd obdudli 



ftngulo loculamento pericarp 



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I have feen only one tree of this kind in Jamaicd ; but it is faid to be pretty 

 common in the mountains of St. Ann's, and efteemed as one of the befl and largeft 



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timb. 



wood : though fo very hard, that it is found a difficult 



down j and from thence it takes its common appell 



The 



bout five inches in length, and two and a half in breadth. The fruit is about 

 inches and a half in diameter; and contains fome bilobed kernels, of ana^ree- 



able tafte, inveloped in a foft mucilaginous fubftance, of a fcarl 



The feed 



ch coveted by the mackaws and parrots, the only birds that can break thro : 



thofe thick and lignous feed-vefTels, which are not eafily broken 



mer : but when they 

 drop or expofe their feeds 



hly ripe, they fplit naturally 



en with a ham- 

 four parts, and 



XYLOPICRUM? 1. Fruticofim-, foliis ovato-acuminatis, products, alternis-, 



capfulis punSlatis ; fori bus confer t is ad alas. Tab. 5. 



An, Xylopicron, &c. Pk. t. 238. £4? 



The fmaller Bitter- wood. 



Periantium Monophylfam, breve, cyathiforme, tri- vel quinquedentatum, 



f erf ft ens % 



CoroJ^K. 



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