Catesby, Mark. Vol.II, Tab. 99, The Balsam-Tree

Mark Catesby (1638 - 1749)Etching with hand color, paper dimensions: approximately 14 x 19 inchesFrom Volume II, Part 10 of Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama IslandsLondon: 1743 - 1771 Currently known as the pitch apple or Scotch attorney, Clusia rosea*, Catesby described this subject as follows: CENCHRAMIDEA Arbor Saxis adnescens, obrotundo pingui folio; fructu pomiformi, in plurimas capsulas granula ficulnea stilo columnari octogono praeduro adhaerenti continentes, diviso; Balsumum fundens. Pluk. Almag. The BALSAM-TREE. These Trees usually grow about six Inches thick, and twenty Feet in Height, having a smooth light coloured Bark. The Leaves grow by Pairs, they are thick, and succulent, having a large Rib in the Middle, from which run transversely narrow streight Lines, parallel and close to one another: In June it produces ample fair Flowers, composed of six white Petals, stained with purple In the Middle of the Flower is formed the Rudiment of the Frui