The Natural Fiflory of Jamaica. ay 35 
The Leaves of this Plant heal Ulcers of the Legs. ‘The Root is very 
powerful againft {wellings. Marcgr. 
Tlatlanquaye and Acapatli. of Hernand. and Xim. are fo very confufedly 
Figured and Defcribed, that { can make nothing of them, though I believe 
there are two forts common to New-Spain and this Ifland, whereof this 
is one. | 
This Wood is made ufe of to ftrike fire, if held between the Knees, and 
a hard ftick with a tapering point turn’d round in it by the Hands. The 
Decoétion of the Roots and Tops diffipates grofs Humors, and heals Hy- 
dropick People. The Leaves applied, Cure bad Ulcers, and hot Baths 
are made with them for cold Fluxions. The Seed gives a good taft to 
Meat boiled with them, Zertre. 
The Fruit, but efpecially the Deco¢tion of the Root, is ufed in the Ifles 
_againft the Stomach Evil, caufed from intemperate cold, and moifture of 
the fame, from too mucli Fruit, Drinks of the Country, or not being 
covered in a morning. They give two Glafies of it warm, and walk till 
they Sweat. Plum. 
XVII. Piper longum folio nervofo pallide viridi, humilins. Cat, p. 44. Tab, 87. 
Fig.2. Arbafcula Brafilienfis piperis facie julifera Raii hiff. append. p.1914. An 
Tlatlancuaye few piper longum pofterivs quoad iconem Fern? Fonft. dendr. 179 ? 
Plantula peregrina Cluf. Exot. lib. 4. c. 11. Fonft. dendr, 181. Chabr. 127. 
Piper longam anguftiffimum ex Florida. C,B. pin. 412. Piper ex Florida. J. B. 
t, 2. lib. 15. p.187. Chabr. 126. Arbor piperifera fructn longo Floridana. Fonft. 
dendr.180. An Amolago H.M. p.7.3% 2 Spani{hHlder. 
This Shrub has a round green Stem, four or five Foot high, having pros 
tuberant joints hereand there, in that refembling Elder, whence, and from the 
pith or hollownefS, the name. ‘The Branches are likewife jointed, and there 
comes out Leaves, firft on one fide from one joint, and then from theother, 
another Leaf on the fide oppofite to that, and fo alternatively always, one 
being at a joint. {The Leaves have {carceany Foot-Stalks, are five Inches long, 
and two broad in the middle where broadeft, rough, having a great many 
large Nerves, running fromthe main one to the fides of the Leaves, of a yel- 
lowifh green colour. At the joints on the fide oppofite to the Leaf, towards 
the top of the Branch goes out a Spike or Falus, ftanding onan half Inch long 
Foot-Stalk, of a pale greenifh colour, and finall aromatick biting taft, four 
Inches long, like that of Long-Pepper, being fomewhat like a Rats Tail, 
and being generally crooked. 
This agrees in every thing to Pifo’s Betre vel Betys, except in the white 
{pots he marks on the Stalk, but being in every thing elfe it has fo perfect an 
agreement with it, Itake it to be the fame. 
It grows on the moift Banks of Rio-Cobre, near the Crefcest Plantation, 
and in feveral other places of the Mland, and in Barbadbes. : 
The uli, which are like Long-Pepper, are of no ufe, the Root is very 
famous. It has fomething Aromatick, and in taft, colour, and {mell, re- 
fembles Ginger, efpecially if it be frefh, and then it is not inferiour toit. It is 
very hot and dry. A Decotion of the Leaves, and Roots, Cures the Col- 
lick, and pains of the Limbs, cafes the windy Belly, and takes away the 
mil tumors of the Feet. The fame is done by Baths and Fomentations. 
Pifo. 3 
Pifo’s Figure is bad. 
XVII. Piper longum arboreum foliis latifimis, Cat. p. 45. Tab, 88. 
fie.1. 
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