: A Description of the Pimienta or Jamaica Pepper-Tree, and 
of the Tree that bears the Cortex Winteranus : Commu- 
nicated by Hans Sloane, M. D. and Reg. Sue. S. 
Myrtus arborea foliis laurinis aromatica : Jive 
^ifnienta y ^maiia^c^cv y or All-Spice-Tree. 
T^Uk Tree has a Trunk as thick as ones thigh, rifing 
(height about 30 feet high, covered with an ex- 
treamly polite or fmooth Skin of a gray colour , and 
branched out on every hand, having the ends of iti 
Twigs fet with Leaves of feveral fizes, the largeft being 
4 or 5 inches long, and 1 or 3 broad in the middle 
where broadefr, and whence it decreafes to both tx- 
trearas ending in a point, fmooth, thin, ftiining, without 
any incifures, of a deep green colour , and (landing on 
inch-long footftalks^ when bruis'd very odoriferous, and 
in ail things like the Leaves of a Bay-tree. The ends of 
the Twigs are branch'd into bunches of Flowers, each 
footftalk fuftaining a Flower made up of four her- 
baceous or pale green Petala bowed back or refle&ed 
downwards, within which are many Stamina of the fame 
colour. To thefe follows a bunch of crowned or um- 
bilicated Berries (the Crown being made up of four fmall 
Fol/ola or Leaves ) whfch are bigger when ripe than Ju- 
niper-berries, at firft when fmall, greenifh 5 but when 
ripe, they are black, fmooth and (liining, containing in a 
mo'ut, green, aromatick and biting Pulp two large Acini 
or Seeds, feparated by a Membrane lying between them, 
each whereof is a Hemifphere, and both join'd make a 
Globe or Spherical (appearingly one) Acinus^ whence Clu- 
fw makes it one Seed divifible into two parts. 
it grows on all the hilly parts of the Ifland of Jamaica y 
but chiefly in the North- fide thereof 3 and where-ever 
thefe 
