The natural history of Barbados : in ten books . The Rind-part of the Guava, when ftewed, is eaten with Milk, andjuftly looked upon to be preferable to any other ftewd Fruit. From the fame Part is made Marmalade; and from the whole Fruit,the fineft jelly perhaps in the World. Thefe Trees grow in moft Parts of the Ifland. The Fruit is ripe about OBober. The Sappadill A-TREE ; Lat. Cainito. THE Roots of this Tree are confiderably Bark is very much furrowed, and of a greyifli-white Colour*The Branches are very many, and fpreading. Thefe are thickly covered with very fmooth fharp-pointed
The natural history of Barbados : in ten books . The Rind-part of the Guava, when ftewed, is eaten with Milk, andjuftly looked upon to be preferable to any other ftewd Fruit. From the fame Part is made Marmalade; and from the whole Fruit,the fineft jelly perhaps in the World. Thefe Trees grow in moft Parts of the Ifland. The Fruit is ripe about OBober. The Sappadill A-TREE ; Lat. Cainito. THE Roots of this Tree are confiderably Bark is very much furrowed, and of a greyifli-white Colour*The Branches are very many, and fpreading. Thefe are thickly covered with very fmooth fharp-pointed fhining-green Leaves, of about Three Inches long, and an Inch and an half broad. It bears many fmall monopetalous Flowers, of a pale White, deeplylaciniated, at their Tops, into many Divifions, refembling diftindl Petalsfurrounding a green Piftil. From the Sides of thefe feeming Petals rife many fhort Stamina^ tippedwith yellow Apices. Thefe Petals are guarded with Two Sets of capfular Leaves ; one ofa brown, and the other of a pale White. The. Book V. IfJand of BARBADOS. I The Piftil becomes the Riuliment of tlic Fniit; wliich, when full-ripe,hath a niffet rough Coat, witli a Coro?ja upon the Top of it. This, in Shape, Bignefs, and Tafte, doth not ill refemble a BurgamotPear, except that it is fweeter and foftcr ; the Pulp of it inclofing feverallongifh black Seeds. The Leaves, as well as their Footftalk, and tender Buds, emit, w henbroken, a white clammy Milk. Ihe Mammee-trEE. THIS grows to be a large fhady Bark of the Trunk, as well as of the main Branches, is fonic-what fulcated. The Leaves, which are very thickly fet on in an alternate Order, areround-pointed, and fmooth, of a very deep Green, about Fi\ e Incheslong, and near Three broad. The Flowers are white, and pentapctalous, fomewhat larger thanOrange-flowers. Thefe are fucceeded by a round ruflet Fruit, full as big as the largeflRufTet-apple. The outward Coat is rather an husky, than a skinny Tegument. This
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