158 ‘The Natural Hiftory of the Book VI. 
The Berry is likewife marked with Six unindented Seams of a blackith 
Colour, feemingly dividing it into fo many Partitions. : 1 
~ The Leaves, Stalk, and Fruit, when broken, emit a white glutinous 
Liquid, which will harden by the Heat of the Sun. 
The LigNuM Rorvum. 
T HE Bark of this fhrubby Tree is of a dark Green, ftreaked with 
White, efpecially on the younger Branches. 
Thefe are covered with fmooth deep-green round-pointed Leaves, Five 
Inches long, and near Three broad. 
:. The f{maller Twigs fuftain Bunches of white Flowers, each compofed 
of Six Petals furrounding Six flender pale yellowith Stamina. 
Thefe inclofe a whitith Piftil, which is fucceeded by a {mall Berry of a 
purple Red, when ripe. 
The younger Branches are {eemingly jointed. 
Thefe, and every other Part of this Tree, have fo much of a terebin- 
thial Quality in it, that it will, when even half-dried, burn like a Candle. 
From this Quality it derives the Name of Fack-Lantern ; for, bein 
tied into 'Fagots, and lighted, it ferves the Fifhermen inftead of Torches, 
to fifh in the Night-time for Crabs and Lobfters, 
It grows generally in fhady Places. 
The CorFEE-TREE ; Lat. JAsMINUM ARABICUM. 
Ge E Coffee-tree, if fheltered, grows to be about Fifteen Feet hich, 
tho’ its common Growth feldom exceeds Twelve. 
It'divides into feveral flender Branches, generally {piral. 
The Bark likewife is of a {mooth reddifh-grey Colour, 
The Branches are cloathed with Four-inch long fharp-pointed dark- 
green Leaves, their Edges being waved or finuated in an elegant regular 
manner. 
Among thefe Leaves rife a great many Five-leaved white Flowers, each 
Petal being round-pointed; the Whole furrounding feveral fhort white 
Stamina, loaded with Apices. 
_Thefe likewife furround the Piftil, which is the Rudiment of the fuc- 
‘ceeding Berry. 
This, even when Tipe, is covered with a thin husky Cap/ula; which, 
when fufficiently dried in the Sun, eafily cracks, and difcovers the Berry, 
‘which is too well known to want a further Defcription, 
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