A Voyage o JAMAICA. 45 
I met with this Plant in one of rhe Caribe Iflands. : 
Colutee afinis fruticofa Pimpinelle folio, filiquis falcatis bovinorum cornuum in 
modum difpofitis. Cat. pl. p. 142. | 
This Branch. was covered with a long Ferruzineous Wool, making it 
rough, under which was a hard Wood. It was frequently divided ‘into 
Twigs which were fet pretty thick with Leaves at about an Inch diftance 
afunder, each of them being aboutan Inch long, and half as broad near the 74d. 16, 
Bafe where broadeft, and from whence they decreafe towards their ends toa Fg. 2. 
Point, being very deeply cut in on the Edges, and {mooth, ftanding on #2 14 
Foot-ftalks. Ex alis foliorum come the Pods. They are always two, ftand- 7% + 
ing like Bulls Horns, being hairy, about an Inch long, crooked, pointed, 
round, and having within them feveral finall Peafe. 
{ found it in one of the Caribes. 
Lauroceraft foliis filiquofa fruticofa. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 153. 
The Twigs of this had under a thin green Bark a foft whitifh Wood and 
large Pith, the Leaves {tood at the Joints oppofite to one another,, and fome- 
times alternatively, having one third of an Inch long Foot-ftalks, they were 
four Inches long, and about two broad near the middle, towards the far- 
ther end where broadeft, being narrow at both extremes, having one mid- 724. 16. 
dle, and fome crooked tranfverfe Ribs being equal, fucculent, and like to the 28: 3- 
Leaves of Laurocerafus. 1c had at top a fhort crooked pointed Pod, with 
two eminent Nerves on its Valves, parallel to the large one on its Back. 
Jn grew in the Caribes, but where I remember not. 
Arbor mali Perfice Mameye ditte foliis fubrotundis, acuminatis, ex adverfo 
fitis. Cat. pl. Fam. p. 180. 
This Tree had Twigs cover’d with a fmooth reddifh Bark, and Leaves’ 
coming out of the Joints by Pairs, fer oppofite to one another at about two 74?-7-Fig.2. 
Inches diftance, having very {mall or no Foot-ftalks, being about two Inches 
long, and one broad, near the round Bafe where broadeft, and whence it de- 
creafed, ending in a Point, being fmooth even on the edges, and having 
Veins running through its Leaf, very regularly after the manner of Mammee. 
I found it inone of the Caribes. 
The Bath here is taken notice of by fome Travellers, as /Zarcourt and Of the hot 
Smith. The firft ays chat it cures the Leprofie: ts good in Coughs, it curing jar) at. 
the Author, who drank and bathd. It alfo remedies burning with Gun-powder, Nieves. 
and fwell’d Legs. Harcourt. Purchas. 1282. The fecond tells us that it 
curd their Men intwo or three Days, who were tormented with a burning 
Swelling, as {calding from the Dew of Trees, Smiths ob]. p. 57. 
That hot natural Waters are fometimes when cold little elfe than common 
Water, and ufed for it, is not only apparent from this, but likewife Purchas, 
who informs us that Seamen furnith their Ships-at Zidore with Water hor ac if- 
fuing out, but cold when it has ftood. Parchas, 44. And thatat Dehuge isa 
Stream of hot Water, which put into a Veflel becomes cool and healthfome, 
and is fo little differing from fair Water as to be drunk, and ferve other ules 
to the Inhabirants inftead and in want of it. Elkington. Purchas li 4. 523- 
Which, by the way, may let us {ee that ’tis not improbable that hor Waters owe 
their warmth to fomething without, and not mix’d in them. 
The Miners being {ent out inthis Iffand found here a Mineral out of which 
Alum could be made. So Alawks ap. Hakl. 3+ p. 469. tells us tis na- 
tural to New-Spain. And ’tis without queftion to be found in feveral places 
of America, though in moft of them it will not defray the Coft of Making and 
Carriage to Ewrope, where is its great demand for the ufe of Dyers 
The Captain General of thefe Iflands, which was Sir Nathanael Fohnfon, ; 
refided during our being here at Aniego. This Mand is not far diftant from Of Antego, 
Nieves, and is thought to be on many accounts preferable to it, It was dil- 
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