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LACERTUS VIRIDIS F¥AMAICENSTS. 
Fhe Green Lizard of Jamaica. 
HIS Lizard is ufually fix 
inches long, of a fhining grafs 
green colour. It is com- 
mon in YFamaica, frequent- 
ing hedges and trees, but are 
in houfes, that I obferved. 
feen 
When they are approached to, they, by 
filling their throat with wind, fwell it into 
a globular form, and a fcarlet colour; 
which, when contracted, the red difappears, 
and returns to the colour of the reft of 
not 
the body. This {welling action feems to 
proceed from menacing, or deterring one 
from coming near him, though they are 
inoffenfive. 
Lézard verd de la ae 
mun @ la Jamaique; & fe 
<a tient dans les hayes &§ dans les 
Ide 3 mais je wat point obferve qu'on en 
voye dans les maifons. Quand on approche 
de ces Lézards, ils enflent leur eae comme 
une boule, en le rempliffant de vent; 
alors il paroit d’un rouge vif’; mais cette 
couleur difparoit, lors qwil fe contracte, &P 
il redevient de la méme couleur que le Sei 
du corps: i femble que cette enflure att pour 
but de ménacer, ou d’épouvanter, pour C= 
pécher qu'on n *approche deux, quot quils ne 
Joyent point dangereux. 
L IGNUM CAMPECHIANU M; Species quedam Brafil. Joh. de Laet. 
Sloane, Hift. Jamaic, 
L 0G W:0 OD, 
N the year 1725, I faw three of thefe Trees in the Ifland 
of Providence, which were raifed from feeds brought from 
the Bay of Honduras, by Mr. Spatches, a perfon of more than 
common curiofity. He told me, they were of three years 
growth from t eeds; they were then about fourteen fee 
high; their trunks ftrait, and about feven or eight inches 
thick: their head one regulary, and being in full 
bloflom, de autiful ana The leaves are 
d fome | pair of lobes, {fet 
i are in fhape of an heart: from 
ps of the bra t forth se {pikes o {mall 
pentapetalous yellow a every one of bef 
it opens, is cover The flewers are 
fucceeded by fall flat tp which, 
when ripe, fplit open in the middle, and difclofe five or fix 
fmall flat feeds. 
The zvipsdy difputes which this ufeful Tree has <a d 
as - fees rds oe ingiif, are too well known to fay 
3 only he nuapieines of our 
Bice 4 fantation could te ae to propagate it, as well 
may be ia by them, 
e Spaniards, as we 
h. 
for tii 
ae wholly deprived afer it fom th 
ve hithert r ftealt 
“Te upon a ae see ae will a four years bear feeds, 
and grow to the thicknefs of eight inches; a much quicker 
progrefs may be expected when planted in a deep moitt foil, 
which Yamaica and many other of our iflands abound in 
: Ee cane 
Vol. IIe -p. 183. 
Bois de Popes 
a Tile £ Ja Providence frozs 
1725 je 
Arbres, qui inte venus de femence apportée du et 
sunt ae Monfieur Spatches, homme extremement curt 
Ll me dit quil y avoit trois ans qu'on les avoit femés :, ils Cmicte 
alors environ 14 piés de hautéur: leurs troncs étoient droits, le 
Sept ou huit pouces de diamétre: leurs Miia sétendant regu- 
peg & leurs fleurs etant alors dans leur perfeétion, ils fai- 
ie Mac iee n tres ee goes Leurs feuslles crénelie ee les p 
cee vt la figure Cun ceur if oe du dout fe 
branches fe ips i pe les fleur janes a eng ara He at 
violet. 
Ved urs " ee de petite Si ates x environ deux pouces 
long, qui, lors qu'elles Jont mires, 8 oe en fe Jendant par a 
milieu, & laiffent voir cing ou fix petites ee plattes. 
On fait trop quels fale ‘mélés cet ene: fi utile a caufes 
entre les Efpagnols & /es Anglois, pour endre beaucou up Wis 
Je foubaiterois feulement ee engage a _ le nos planta~ 
ales a le cultiver autant pour leur avantage, quafin 
er ces Arbres en quatre ans de 
ae ent des Jemences, & grofiffent jufqu'a buit wea de 
diametre, on doit croire, gut ils ae encore bien plu 
irae plantés dans un terroir humide & profond, tel quil y ena 
beaucoup a la Jamaique & dans afore autres de nos tfles. 
