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3 6 8 



H 



N 



H 



T O 



Femina. 



Corolla 



5 



m 



Periantium 



Piftillum. 



Pericarpium. Drupa carnofa, frma } ovata, lined longitudmali lateraliter 



Germen bvatum% ftylus brevis, attenuating fligma acutum 



-b 



not 'at 'a , 



locula 



Semen. Nucleus bil. 



memb 



"ji 



bvoh 



& nauco lig 



This tree grows 



glabro y lined longitudinali lateraliter notato, tetlus 



very confiderable fize, and is reckoned among the beft tim 



ber 



of the ifland ; for which purpofc 



frequently cut down in all parts of 



the country. The bark is faid to be a very powerful anthelmintic, and is frequently 

 given for that purpofe in powders and deco&ions both to men and beafts 



but 



operates very violently, and, for that reafon, is not much ufcd among the whites 



ARBOR 2. Foliis obovato-obkngis, fpicillis alaribus; ligno durij/imo, ex fub- 



luteo & fufco variegato. 



Pip-eon- Wood. 





This fhrubby 



is greatly efteemed on account of its wood : it feldom exceeds 



four inches in the diameter of its trunk, though it rifes frequently to the height of 

 fixteen or eighteen feet. The wood is very hard, of a clofe even grain, and very beau- 

 tifully clouded. 



ARBOR 3. Minor diffufa, obfeure virens; foliis obovatis; fronde comosd, fru- 



Bibus Jingularibus ad alas. 



Tab. 20. f. 3. 



The Scarlet-Seed. 



V 



Duplex 



e 





nus 



biphyll 



Cor oil 



St 



foliis craffiuf culls fubrotundi 



pentaphyllum 



Pill 



Germen 



Stylus Jubulatus : ftigma 



acutum. 



Pericarp. Capfula nitid, 



ofo-fungofa, biloculat 



Sem 



Nucleoli pi 



maxima parte abortientes } oblongi, quafi bilobi 



tppreM 



naucis propriis fragilibus unilocular i bus recurvis & 

 quafi bilocularibus, tedli ; naucis cerd tenui 



Receptaculum columnar e per centrum fepti medii duclum, ad 



obducli 



1 



*P 



ultipartitum ; lacinul 



bus intra loculamer. 



utri?ique rejiexis, femina ferentibus 

 This fhrubby tree is frequent in the red hills, where i 



but it feldom rifes above twelve or fixteen feet 



inches in diameter. When the fruit 



height 



; pretty luxuriantly ; 

 exceeds fix or feven 



of which the fmaller birds feem very fond : they 



feeds, 



greafy waxen fubftance of a fcarlet 



dyer's and painter's ufe, when better known 



ripe, it burfls upon the tree, and (hed 



ways 



ped 



which may probably ferve both for tfo 



I believe this may be a fpecies of the Sloanea: the wax and formation of the feed 



Wh 



fmooth in th 



is nearly the fame in both, induce me to think fo, tho' the capli 



13 





ARBOR 4. Foliis ovatis y petio'iis brevibus y fori bus fafciculatis. 



Pift. Germen fubrotundum : tlyli duo, breves, interne canalyculati : ftigmata 



ampliata compreffa excavata. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula videtur bilocularis bifpermis. 





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