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The Natural Hiftory of the Book V; 
The GuUAVA-TREE ; Lat. GUAJAVA. 
HOLE Fruit called the Guava is diftinguifhed into Two forts ; the 
White and the Red ; and thefe, with regard to their Shape, into 
the round, and the Pear-fafhioned, or perfumed Guavas. 
The latter have a thicker Rind, and are looked upon to ke of a more 
delicate Tafte, than any other : However, I think the Difference is very 
{mall. 
This Tree, if carefully cultivated, and in a good Soil, will grow to 
about Eighteen Feet in Height. _ 
Its Bark is very {mooth, and of a reddifh Grey. 
The Leaves are atoutThree Inches long, fharp-pointed, and high-ribbed. 
The Flowers are white, and pentapetalous, guarded with Four capfular 
Leaves, green without, and white within. 
The Petals furround a great many fhort Stamina, tipped with pale- 
yellow Apices. . 
Thefe inclofe the Sty/us, which is the Rudiment of the Fruit; which, 
excepting the perfumed Guava, is round, and about the Bignefs of a large 
Tennis-ball ; the Rind, or Skin, generally of a Ruffet, {tained with Red; 
the Top adorned with a Corona, asa Pear. 
The Skin, or Rind, is lined with an Apple-like Subftance, as thick as 
a Crown-piece. 
The Infide of this is full of an agreeable Pulp, mixed with innume- 
rable {mall white Acizi or Seeds. 
The Rind-part of the Guava, when ftewed, is eaten with Milk, and 
juftly looked upon to be preferable to any other ftew’d Fruit. 
From the fame Part is made Marmalade; and from the whole Fruit, 
the fineft Jelly perhaps in the World. 
Thefe Trees grow in moft Parts of the Ifland. 
The Fruit is ripe about Offober. 
The SAPPADILLA-TREE ; Lat. CAINITO. 
| ‘HLE Roots of this Tree are confiderably large. 
The Bark is very much furrowed, and of a greyifh-white Colour. 
The Branches are very many, and {preading. . 
Thefe are thickly covered with very fmooth fharp-pointed fhining- 
green Leaves, of about Three Incheslong, and an Inch and an half broad. 
It bears many {mall monopetalous Flowers, of a pale White, deeply 
laciniated, at their Tops, into many Divifions, refembling diftin@ Petals 
furrounding a green Piftil. 
_From the Sides of thefe feeming Petals rife many fhort Stamina, tipped 
with yellow .4pices. 
Thefe Petals are guarded with Two Sets of capfular Leaves ; one of 
a brown, and the other of a pale White. 
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