( 4i ) 
ing to the height of twenty feet or more, fending 
out many ftiortifh branches, garnifhed with entire, 
oblong, pointed leaves; the flowers are produced 
Upon the fmall branches, making but little appear- 
ance, and are fucceeded by large, globular or oblong 
fruit, which when fully ripe has a fweet agreeable 
tafte. A full groVn tree will often yield two bufhels 
or more of fruit, which upon diftillation will afford 
as many gallons of Spirits, allowed to be equal in 
tafte and flavour to Weft India Rum. Our country- 
men have not enough attended to this, but in fome 
places they brew of them a very good Beer. There 
appears to be varieties of this, fome with early ripe 
large fruit, others with fmaller and late ripe* 
DIRC A. 
LEATHER WOOD. 
Clafs 8. Order i. Odandria Monogynia. 
H E Empalement is wanting. 
**■ The Cot oil a is one petal’ d and clubb’d. The tube is more 
bellied above. The border none, the margin unequal. 
The Filaments are eight, capillary, inferted in the middle of 
the tube, and longer than the corolla. The Anther® are 
rouadilli and ere<5L 
The Germen is ovate, with an oblique top. The Style is thread- 
form, longer than the ftamina and curved at the top. 'Tile 
Stigma is limple. 
The Seed-vejjel is a berry of one cell. 
The Seed is one. 
There is but one Species of this Genus , viz. 
Birca paluftris. Virginian Marjh Leather™ 
wood. 
This is a lowfhrub, growing in moift fhady places, 
feldom riling more than three or four feet high, 
F fpreading 
