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A description of the pimienta or Jamaica pepper-tree, and of the tree that bears the cortex winteranus:

1691; Royal Society; Volume: 17; Issue: 192 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rstl.1686.0083

2053-9223

Hans Sloane,

Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean

This Tree has a Trunk as thick as ones thigh, rising streight about 30 feet high, covered with an extreamly polite or smooth Skin of a gray colour, and branched out on every hand, having the ends of its Twigs set with Leaves of several sizes, the largest being 4 or 5 inches long, and 2 or 3 broad in the middle where broadest , and whence it decreases to both extreams ending in a point, smooth, thin, shining, without any incisures, of a deep green colour, and standing on inch-long footstalks; when bruis'd very odoriferous, and in all things like the Leaves of a Bay-tree.