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and (everal (hallow Furrows of a darker colour, run- 
ning varioufly through it making it rough, of an aro- 
matick tafte. The inward Bark is much thicker than 
Cinamon, being as thick as a mill'd Crown-piece, fmooth, 
of a whiter colour than the outward, of a much more 
biting and aroma-tick tafte fomething like that of Cloves, 
and not glutinous like Cinamon, but dry and crumbling 
between the teeth. The Leaves come out near the ends 
of the Twigs without any crder (landing on inch-long 
foot-ftalks, they are each of them two inches long, and 
one inch broad near the end where broadeft,and roundifh, 
being narrow at beginning, from whence it augments in 
breadth to near its end , of a yellowifh green colour, 
fhining and fmooth, without any incifures about its 
edges, and fomewhat refembling the Leaves of Bay or 
Laurocerafm. The ends of the Twigs are branched in- 
to bunches of Flowers, (landing fomething like Umbels, 
each of which has a foot- (talk, on the top of which is a 
Calix made up of (ome Foliol*, in which (land five Scar- 
let or Purple Petala, within which is a large Stylus. To 
theft follow fo many calculated Berries of the bignefs of 
a large Pea, roundifti, green, and containing, within a 
muciraginous pale-green thin Pulp, four bhek fhining 
Seeds or Acini, of an irregular figure. 
All the parts of this Tree, when frefb, are very hot^ 
aromatick, andbitinjz to the tafte, fomething like Cloves, 
whifch is fo troubleiom as (bmetimes to need a remedy 
from fair wat^r. 
It grows in the Low* land or Savanna Woods very fre- 
quently, on each fide of the Road between Pajjage-Fort 
and the Town of St. Jago de la Vega in Jamaica, in Anti- 
gua, and other the Caribbe Iflands. 
The Bark of this Tree is what is chiefly in ufe, both 
in the Plantations of the Englifli between the Tropicks 
in the Weft-Indies, and in Europe, and is without any diffi- 
culty cured by only cutting off the Bark, and letting it 
dry in the (hade. It 
