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with fmall round leaves. The wood 

 is beautiful, folid, and permanent. 

 The fruit in figure and fragrance re- 

 fembies the Englijh Crab Apple. 

 Within its pulp is a hard, fulcated, un- 

 even kernel, containing the feeds of 

 the apple. The milky juice contained 

 in the bark of the tree, upon touching 

 the fkin immediately raifes watery vef- 

 ficles; and both that and the pulp of 

 the fruit being taken internally, occa- 

 fion inflammations and death. Sea- 

 water, however, with the juice of 

 limes, and of the fig, and Whitewood 

 Tree, are effectual remedies. 



The Guava Tree is about twenty feet 

 high, foon dividing into feveral branches. 

 Its bark is fmooth and grey. Its leaves 

 are of a deep green, rough, and point- 

 ed, being about three inches in length, 

 and one in breadth. The flowers are 

 D 3 white, 



