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XVIII. 



or Vegetables that have their 



the Polyadelphia ; 



Filaments joined into three or more bundles at the 

 bafe. 



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Of fuch as have but Jive Filaments in every Flower. 



IpHEOBROMA i. Foliis oblongo-cordatis, ferratis, ab altera latere major I 

 bus ; friiflu minori fcabro. 

 Theobroma foliis fer rati s. L. Sp. PI. & H. C. 



Guazuma. Plum. t. 18. 



Alni jruclu mori folia arbor, &c. Slo. Cat. 135. 



Baftard Cedar. 



This tree is a native of Jamaica ; and peculiar to the low lands, where it often 

 forms a very agreeable made for the cattle : and frequently fupplies them with food in 

 dry weather, when all the herbage of the fields is burned up, or exhaufted; mod 

 forts being obferved to feed very greedily both upon the fruit and foliage of the 

 tree. The feeds are very mucilaginous, but, otherways, agreeable to the palate. 

 The wood is light, and fo eauly wrought, that it is generally ufed by our coach 

 and chaife makers in all the fide-pieces. The flowers grow in clutters at the alae of 

 the leaves. 



THEOBROMA 2. Fruclu ovato-acmninato.fubverrucofo, decern fulcis longi 



tudina libus Jubarato. 

 Cachaos. Mart. 369. 



The Chocolate Tree, with long pods. 



TH EOBROMA 3. FruBu fubrotimdo, fubverritco/o, decern fulcis fubarato, 

 Theobroma foliis integerri?nis. L. Sp. PI. & H. C. 

 Cacao. Ger. Ema. &c. Slo. Cat. 134. & H. t. 160. 

 Cacao. Catefb. App. t. 6. Cf Chacolata. Bontii, pag. 198. 



The Chocolate Tree, with round pods. 



Both fpeciesof the Cacao, or Chocolate tree, are pretty frequent in Jamaica*, 

 often found wild in the woods, where doubtlefs they had been cultivated in the 



and 



f the Spaniards: but they are feldom planted there in regular walks 



on 



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the 



main ; where hur 



d (a) 



very del 



are neither fo freq 



they 



are 



nor (6 deftrucl 



d rarely furvive when once they are loofened in the 



which is generally the cafe, when they are not well maded, in h 





cane times: for the ground is then quite foft and yielding for the fpace of many 

 feet under the furface; and the force of the wind, often fuch. as to 



the moil; robuft 



many of the Coral B 



The Spaniards, to prevent fuch 



break or bend 

 :s. ufed to in- 



(b) (from whence they have been fince, g 



(a) The root cankers generally on thofe occafions, and decays mod commonly afterwards : but I 

 query, whether many of them would not recover, had they been pulled up, and pruned both at top and 

 1 (torn, when they begin to weather ; and then tranfplanted I 



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