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: 128 The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
Brafil Worm Mnuf. p.r11. Noix Medecinales de Bouton, p 64. Barbado 
Med. Cur. Noix de medecine de Rochef. Tatl. p. 25. Ricintides ppenca ii 
fvpii folio. Tournef. Inft. p. 566. - 
This Tree has ceep brown Roots. It rifes to about twenty Foot high 
with a Trunc of foft Wood as thick as ones Leg, having a whitith coloured 
bark below, but towards the ends of its Branches the Bark is green, where 
are many Leaves {et irregularly on all fides, having each a fix Inches lon 
Foot-Stalk. ‘The Leaf its felf is roundifh, fomething like ro a a ea 
only not fo much laciniated, being foft, or a little woolly, having a very 
{trong unfavoury f{mell. They, and the Bark yield a wheyifh Liquor in 
pretty great plenty which flains Linnen. The Flowers come in Bunches on 
three Inches long Stalks near the ends of the Twigs. They are green pent, 
petalous, the petals being bowed back downwards, with yellow Stamina with- 
in, cf a fweetifh fmell. After thefe follow the Fruit, feveral together 
hanging downwards from pretty long Stalks, bigger than Hafel-Nuts, fir 
green, then yellow and brown, when ripe, having three obtufe fides, the 
outward Husk, or ftrong brown fmooth Membrane, breaking in three 
places of its felf, difcovers three feveral Nuts or Kernels, each lodged in 
his own Cell, feparated from the others by a partition, every one being 
almoft round, oblong, like, but bigger than a Pine-Nut, covered with a 
rough or f{cabrous dark brown Shell, breaking or cracking in {ome places 
where ‘tis whitifh. The Kernel confifts of two {weet, very white Lobes 
divided by a white Membrane, it is covered with a white thin pellicu/e, 
like that of the infide of an Egg-fhell. 
I take this to be the Quauhayohuatlis 3. of Frernandez and Ximenes, as I 
have faid already in my Catalogue p. 40. notwithftanding what is faid by 
Dr. Plukenet in his Mantiff. p.162. 3 
Aldinus, or rather Petrus Caffellus, has given a good figure of this Plant. 
Thefe Seeds were put out of ule by Mechoacan. Frag. 
It is planted for Hedges at all times, and every where in Famaica, being 
eafily propagated by the flip. A quick grower, and good Fence; but of its 
felf it grows on Banks near Rivers and Gullies every where. 
[ was very Sick, and fo were all that were on Shoar (at Sierra Leona) with 
me, with eating of a Fruit of the Country, which we found on Trees, like 
Nuts, whereof fome did eat four, fome five, fome fix and more, but we 
Vomited, and Scoured upon it without Reafon. Ward ap. Hakl. p. 3. 
p- 758. 
Hughes, tells us p.81. that three growing together are a Dofe to weak 
Bodies, five, feven, or nine to others ftronger. One eat thirty or forty, 
and came off, they work upwards and downwards, cleanfing the Body of 
tough humours. 
Ligon. p.66. relates that in Barbados they likewife Plant it for Palifadoes, 
keeping it even with Rails and Brackets, and that no Cattle comes near it. 
The fame tells us p. 67. that from five to three are a good Vomit, and that 
if youtake out the Film it Vomits not. 
Clufivs {ays that half a Grain will Purge violently upwards and down- 
wards, in which his Relator deceived him, or he meant of the pinei nucles 
Malucani Acofte ox Granatilli. 
The Nuts are given from three to feven fora Vomit, and are counted hot 
inthe third, and dry inthe fecond degree. 
It very often happens that new comers are deceived by thefe Nurs, being 
invited to eat them, by their pleafant taft. I have known feveral fo de- 
ceived, but never any fuffer more thana feyere Vomit. Sometimes they are 
candied with Sugar into a Sweet-Meat, on purpofe to deceive people, who 
eating of them unawares, are purged upwards and downwards with sory 
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