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Surfeit. Xaaxa is the fineft fort of Yuca which is eatable, rofted or boiled, 
its Juice being no Poyfon. Yxea iscommon in the Ifles. Acofta. 
The Stalks two Spans lotig, are buricd in tumuli, called Conuachos. It's 
ready in two years. The Zndians clean it with Flints found by the Shore 
Prefs out the venemous Juice and bake it. It keeps three years, and has need 
of fomething of Broth to moiften it. Benzo. 
XIII. Ricinus minor viticis angufto mucronato folio, caule verrucofo, flore penta 
petalo albido, ex cujus radice tuberosa fucco venenato turgida, Americani panem con- 
Jicinnt. Cat. p. 44. 
J obferv’d this Kind indifferently with the former, of which! fuppofe ’tis 
@ Varicty. 
XIV. Ricino afinis odorifera fruticofa major, rori{marini folio, frutte tri 
cocco albido. Cat. p. 44. Tab. 86. Fig. 1. Wild Rofemary or Spanifh Rofe« 
mary. 
| This Shrub has a Trunc as big as ones Arm, covered witha light brown, 
fmooth Bark, rifing five Foot high, having many white Branches, be fer with 
Leaves in Tufts, at about an Inches diftance from one another. Each of 
them is two Inches long, and a quarter of an Inch broad, green above, and 
very white below, . ftanding on an eighth part of an Inch’s long white Foot- 
Stalk, beginning narrow, and ending in a point. The tops of the Branches, 
for three Inches in length, are fet thick with {mall white Flowers, Spikes 
fafhion, made up of many Stamina, in anpentaphyllous white Capfela, or 
within five greenifh white Petala. After this follows a tricoccous Fruit, ftick- 
ing clofe to the Stalk, {mooth and whitifh, larger than that of the Chamelea 
tricoccos, each of the three fides containing an oblong, brown, fhining Seed, 
The whole Plant fmells very gratefully and ftrong. 
It grows every where in great abundance on the- Red: Hills, and near 
Paffage Fort. on the Road coming from thence to Town. 
{tis ufed very much in all forts of Metficated Baths, and Fomentations 
for Hydropick Legs, ce. ; 
In refpect of the Fruit, this agrees with the Pee-Z/rerou-Ponnagam. H. M, 
XV. Ricino afinis odorifera fruticofa minor, tencriz folio, frudkw tricocco 
dilute purpureo. Cat. p..44. Tab. 86. Fig. 3. An Teucrii foliis frutex Cu- 
raffavicus. P.B. p- 3802 Pluk. Tab.r28. Fig. 4 2 Tencrio fimilis Indica fraticofa 
foliis crafiu{culis, Hort. Beaum. ? | 7 
This has feveral {mall woody Branches about four or five Foot long, fomes 
times rifing upright, and at other times lying along the Surface of the Earth, 
having a gray Bark. ‘The Twigs have Leaves at their ends, ftanding round 
them, about an Inch and one third in length, and of an Inches breadth, Oval, 
{nipt about the edges, and of a very dark green colour, fomething like Ger- 
mander, the Flowers confift of fix greenifh Stamina, coming from the fame 
Center, ftanding in a pentaphyllous green Capfula, coming out ex alis fol. 
by very fhort Foot-Stalks, to which follows a green, fmall, tricoccous Seed, 
which afterwards grows as big as that of Heliotropium tricoccon only ’tis 
{mooth, and of a very pleafant pale purple colour. 
The Leaves of this Plant bruifed are very odoriferous. 
Tt grew among the Trees of a Wood, between the Town Savanna and two 
Mile Wood. 
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