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Allspice or Jamaica Pepper, is set in a 4 or 5 starred calyx in 
a loose cluster, each on an \ inch footstalk. Between the 
outward skin and kernel, which is solid and very hard, is but 
little space. 
69. Grista Pavonis Ghinensis. Abrus folio. Bo ya hoa Herbar. 
nost. Chin. tab. 2, fig. 4. 
Hoa in the Chinese language signifies a flower. The leaves are 
much less and narrower than the American kind, otherwise in 
its spikes, flowers and way of growing it very much resembles it. 
Crista Pavonis is Adenanthera pavonina L. Lam. Enc. Bot. II 76 
mentions it as a native of China. Dr. Hance has observed it in Hongkong. 
70. Cupressus chusan. Abietis folio. Gazoph. Tab. 6. fig. 3. 
Where you may with its figure see a description of its leaves 
and seed. 
It bears its cones single at the end of each branch; the scales 
of these, when they are open or cracked, are serrated and rugged. 
As we have stated above (Gazoph. l.c.) this is Cryptomeria japonica. Don. 
71. Fuonymo affinis chusan. Fraxini folio, semine nigro. 
The leaves grow opposite, and generally 3 pairs tailed, i.e. 
one at the end. The footstalk is very short and next the tail 
scarce any. The fruit grows in clusters, each husk rugose, 
including one black shining seed. 
72. Fagar a Fmuyaca Fraxini folio. 
This is distinguished from the next in having much broader 
leaves. They grow opposite and are much like the Ash. The 
berries are about the bigness of Pepper and grow in small 
clusters. The tender shoots and first sprouts are prickly, in 
the more grown they are not so discernable. I have not as 
yet observed any prickles on the leaves of this kind except in 
its first shoots, which are very small and wear off as they 
grow older. 
I call Fagarae those trees and shrubs, whose berries split 
like those figured by Garcias ab Horto, Gerard, Parkinson, 
Clusius, etc. There are also these peculiarities, which generally 
attend this tribe, viz., the branches are prickly and often the 
leaves on the underside and middle rib, and sometimes on both 
sides and the lesser veins. The berries split in the middle and 
discover a black shining seed, the outer skin rough, tastes hot 
and spicey. The leaves in all I have yet observed are per¬ 
forated like St.Johns wort, Orange leaves, Myrtle. The 
Hercules and prickly yellow woods of the W. Indies are of 
this family. 
The genua to which the Fagarae of the ancient botanists belong is now 
..called ZanthQ&yliMik Lin, 
