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Book VI. Hiand of BARBADOS. 
Box-Woobp. 
HIS Shrub is covered with a whitifh-grey Bark, 
_ Its Leaves are about Two Inches long, and One broad; and are 
generally fharp-pointed. 
Thefe are fet on the Branches alternately. 
The Flowers are of the tubular ftellated Kind, fucceeded by {mall 
Berries, which are eaten by Birds of different kinds. 
This Shrub generally grows in the Shade: Several of thefe are to be 
found on the Eftate of ohn Colliton, Efg; in Sz. Lucy's Parith. 
The Wiup HonEy-TREE., 
| es Tree grows to a confiderable Bignefs. 
The Bark is fomewhat fulcated, ‘and of a reddifh-grey Colour. 
The Leaves are of a deep Green, {mooth, and winged, exaétly refem- 
bling Ivy-Leaves. 
Its white Flowers are fucceeded by Berries, fomewhat round, as big 4s 
a Cherry. : 
Thele are of a fnowy White without ; and the Pulp within (which is 
as {weet as Honey, and as yellow as Gold) is divided into Partitions, in- 
cluding many {mall Seeds. 
I found this Tree on a {mall Grove belonging to Mr. Yoleph Jordan, 
jun. in Sz, Lucy's Parifh. 
The BuAcK CHERRY-TREE: 
at IS Tree feldom rifes above Eighteen or Twenty Feet high, 
The Bark is of a ruffet Grey, and the Branches thickly cloathed 
with dark-green Leaves of about Two Inches long, and one and an half 
broad. 
The Flowers are white, and of the rofaceous Kind. 
Thefe are fucceeded by {mall black Cherries, fomewhat larger, and 
more compreffed at both Ends, than the Exgli/b Black-cherry. 
Their fweetifh Pulp furrounds a foft Kernel. 
They are generally ripe in 4uguf? and September, and are eaten by Men 
as well as Birds. 
This grows in almoft every Parifh in the Ifland. 
The Buack SAGE-BUSH. 
: [ils bath a great many ftrong Roots. 
The main Stalk is cloathed with a blackifh Bark. : 
~The Leaves, which are high-ribbed, and corrugated, are about Two 
Inches and an half long, and above One broad. 
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