Book VII. JS/land of BARBADOS, 
not above one feventh of an Inch thick, covering a rough, fulcous, ftony 
Kernel. This is delineated in Plate XIII. 
The Wuite Pitum-TRrer. 
HIS isa middle-fized Tree, the Body of it cover’d with a whitith 
Bark ; the Branches are cloath’d with Leaves of about four Inches 
Jong, and two broad, ending in a round Point ; the flender top Branches 
fuftain Groups of white {mall Flowers, which are fucceeded by a great 
Number of {mall Plums, green even when ripe ; thefe by the Heat of 
the Sun open into three thick Partitions, emitting a great many {carlet 
 firingy Seeds. 
The Jamaica PLum-TREE. 
aye Hits gtows to a confiderable Bignefs ; the Branches are cloathed 
with pennated Leaves ; the Flowers are fucceeded by oval Plums, 
fomewhat depreffed at both Ends, having their Surface here-and there in- 
dented. Thefe are of a purple Colour when ripe, and of a fharp agree- 
able Tafte. 
The DaMascen, or the CALLIMATO-TREE ; Lat. Icaco. 
TL F118 Tree grows to about twenty Feet high, The Leaves are long, 
fharp-pointed, and {mooth-edged ; very green on the upper, and 
pale on the under-fide ; they are fet on the Branches alternately. It bears 
about April a great many Flowers, very much refembling thofe of a 
Sugar-apple ; thefe are fucceeded by black, longith, very clammy Plums, 
having one, fometimes two Stones or Kernels in them, the pulpy Part be- 
ing very {weet, and agreeable. The great Turtle-Doves, Pivets, and 
Thruthes, feed greedily upon them. 
The Cu1GERY-GRAPE-TREB. 
HIS is a middle-fized Tree, having ftrong numerous Roots ; the 
Bark of the Trunk is of a dark Grey ; the Branches are thickly 
covered with Leaves; thefe are about five Inches in Length, and two 
in Breadth. The Flowers, which are {mall, five-leaved, and of a 
brownifh Colour, in great Number furround feveral ruffet ftrong 
Spikes, of about two Inches long ; thefe Flowers are fucceeded by Ber- 
Nes fomewhat fmaller than white Currans, each compofed of f{everal 
thick juicy Lamina, inclofing a blackifh fharp-pointed Stone or Kernel ; 
thefe are red when half-ripe, and white when full-ripe: They have an 
acid, fweet, agreeable Tafte, like white Currans ; but if eaten to Excefs, 
they caufe a tingling Itching in the Skin. They are generally ripe in 
Auguft and September. 
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