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feet ill height, and is frequently rather a shrub : 

 the trunk Ts sniootli, and thebranches spread- 

 ins and round : the leaves alternate, acuminate, 

 enure, nerved, smooth on both aides, glaucouo 

 ■ on the back : the petioles short, round, smooth, 

 ithickened at the base : the llowers pcdunclcd, 

 ■usuallv in pairs, oblong, acuminate, green with- 

 out and whitish withm : the peduncles below 

 the petioles,, longer and onc-flowcred : the calyx 

 ■one-leafed and tnangular : the petals three, lan- 

 ceolate, tri<iuetrous, pL-me-coa\ ex without, sharp 

 at tlie tip, excavated within at the base, dark 

 .purple, smooth: the nectary none : the fila- 

 inents scarcely any : the anthers ^imbricate, 

 pressed close ' to the germ, obtuse and two- 

 valved : the styles short, thick and imbricate: 

 the stisrnias oblong and oblique : the berry oval : 

 ■tlie scales adnate, "roundish, blueish, resembling 

 ,<siibimbricate teats: the seeds flatted a little, 

 ^■black with a white scar on the side, wrapped in 

 . a succulent cottony substance. It is a native oi 

 both the East and West Indies. The fruit is 

 sweet, and eaten in those countries. 



The fourth sort grows to a veiy large tree 

 ■in South America, and is well furnished with 

 branches: the leaves are bright green, much 

 larger than those of any other species : the fruit 

 is oblong, scalv on the outside, and of a dark 

 purple colour when ripe: the flesh is soft and 

 ■sweet, and has many brown seeds intermixed 

 with it, which are very smooth aiid shining. It 

 is esteemed by the Peruvians as one of their most 

 -delicate fiuits. 



The fifth species is a small tree, only a fathom 

 in height, or little more : the branches round, 

 scabrous, ash-coloured : the twigs smooth, al- 

 ternate and patulous : the bark tenacious, and 

 may be drawn out into long threads for making 

 ropes : the leayes are petioled, alternate, spread- 

 ins, ovate, scarcely acuminate, entire, beauti- 

 fully nerved, very smooth, coriaceous, and a 

 little recurved : the flowers peduncled, towards 

 the ends of the branches : the peduncle solit-.uy, 

 the length of the petioles, round, one-flowered, 

 .below the petiole, smooth : the flower yellow, 

 the same size as in the second : the calyx three- 

 parted, almost triangular : the petals three, con- 

 cave, roundish with a short point, thick, coria- 

 ceous, veined on the outside, smooth and paler 

 on the inside, with blood-red spots at the base.: 

 the nectarv consists of three petals, shorter by 

 lialf than the three others, narrower, acute, 

 concave, white without, dark blood-red within : 

 the filaments crowded, fixed to the receptacle 

 .below the pistil : the anthers oblong, angular, 

 ■blunt and white : the germs crowded into aeon- 

 vex, green body: the styles scarcely any: the 

 ^Stigmas bliml, pale : the berry heart-shaped, 



very jnicoth, with a coriaceoos, pulpy rind. It 

 is native of Jamaica. It is known by the name 

 of AUoTcilor Apple, and, from the softness of 

 the wood, Corh-it ood. 



Tlic sixth ha.s the trunk seldom bigger than 

 the small of a man's leg, and rises about ten or 

 twcK'c feet high, ha\-ing a smooth, greenish^ 

 brown bark. In March, when the leaves begin 

 to sprout, its blossoms begin to appear, consist- 

 ing each of six greenish-white petals. The fruit 

 grows in clusters of three, and sometimes four 

 together: thev are at first green, and when ripe 

 y.ello^^■, covered with a thin smooth skin, which, 

 contains a yellow pulp, of a sweet luscious 

 taste ; in the middle of which lie in two rows, 

 twelve seeds, divided by so many thin mem- 

 branes. All parts of the tree have a rank, if 

 not a fetid smell. It is observed by Miller that 

 this is rather a shrub than a tree, and that the 

 flowers in this country are of a rusty purple 

 colour. 



The seventh is a middle-sized tree, with spread- 

 ing branches ■: the leaves quite entire, alternate, 

 petioled : the flower pale, single on binate pe- 

 duncles : the petals three, oblong-conical, in- 

 curved and erect : the germs superior, uniting, 

 as they ripen, into an oblong-conical berry, five 

 inches long, red and smooth on the outside, 

 filled with -A whitish, sweet, eatable pulp, but 

 inferior in flavour to the third sort. It is a na- 

 tive of the East Indies. 



Cultnre. — All these plants are capable of being 

 raised from seeds. In the more hardy kind, as 

 the sixth s))ecies, the culture may be eflVcted 

 by seeds procured from North America, which 

 should be sown in the autumn in pots of light 

 rich earth, and sheltered during the winter sea- 

 son by means of a green-house for two or three 

 )cars, when the phnts may be turned out of 

 the pots, and placed in the open ground in warm 

 screened situations in the spring, for the pur- 

 pose of remaining. As the seed of this sort is 

 very slow in vegetating, if the plants do not 

 appear the first year, the mould in the pots 

 should not be disturbed, for they frc(juently 

 come up afterwards. 'Ilieir vegetation, however, 

 proceeds nmch quicker when the pots are pro- 

 tected in the house in the winter seas<>n, and 

 plunged in a gentle hot -bed in the early 

 spring. 



In the tender sorts the propagation is best ef- 

 fected by sowing the seeds in pots of rich light 

 mould in the autunm, and placing them in a 

 bark hot-bed under glasses about Febru.iry.. 

 When the plants are risen to the height of three 

 or four inches they should be pricked out into 

 other separate pots, a little water given th.em, 

 and then plunged into tlic bark bed, bcitig after- 



