Book V. Tland of BARBADOS. 135 
The GAsHw-TREE; Lat. ANACARDIUM, 
Gh) koe IS is a low wide-fpreading Tree. 
Its Branches are generally crooked and ftraggling, cloathed with 
oval Leaves, whofe middle Ribs are ftrong and prominent ;_ the tranf- 
verfe ones running almoft dire@tly crofs the Leaf. 
It bears {mall white five-leaved Flowers. 5 
Thefe are fucceeded by the Fruit, which is diftinguifhed into Three 
Sorts; the Large White, the Large Red, and the Red-and-white. 
Thefe are not unlike, in Shape, to an Apple, called in England, the 
Pearmain. 
The Infide is very ftringy, full of rough, aftringent, yet pleafant Juice. 
Upon the Top of each ftands a Nut, inclofing a Kernel. This Fruit is 
the Avacardium of the Antients. 
Its Shape is like an Hare’s Kidney, affording a great Quantity of 
cauftic Oil ; and the infide white Kernel is roafted and eaten. 
The CocHENEEL Survup. 
ps very much refembles the Pimploe Shrub already defcribed ; 
and differs chiefly from it by its greater Height, which is often 
‘Twelve Feet. 
Its Leaves likewife are very prickly. 
It bears upon conic Footftalks, fuch as the prickly Pear Footftalks, {e- 
veral rofaceous Flowers, of a deep Scarlet, furrounding a Tuft of purple 
Stamina, tipped with whitith Apices. 
In the Middle ftands the Piftil, divided at the Top into Six Starlike 
Divifions. 
The Flowers are fucceeded by a Fig-like Fruit ; which, when ripe, is 
full of a deep-purple Pulp, as well as Juice. 
It is to be wifhed, that the fine Colour it ftains Linen with, could ke 
fixed. 
The AMERICAN TorcH; Lat. Cereus Maximus. 
2 B HE Roots of this are fibrous and many. 
The reticulated Body of the main Stem, as well as the outward 
Lamina, covering the Whole, exadtly refembles the Texture and Colour 
of Pimploes, already defcribed. The Body of this, near the Ground, rifes 
into feveral upright lefler Stalks, from whofe Top rife others, till by fuch 
a Multiplication theWhole grows often to Eighteen or Nineteen Feet high. 
Each of thefe are nearly of a Bignefs, being about Eight Inches in Cir- 
cumference ; and, from Joint to Joint, about Three Feet in Length. 
Thefe are regularly chanelled from Top to Bottom into about Ten 
deep-gouged Furrows. 
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