162 ~~ The Natural Fiftory of Jamaica. 
XXXII. Ariffolochia (candens odoratiffima, floris labello purpureo, femine cor 
dato. Cat.p. 60. Tab. 104. Fig. 1. An Ariftolochia Americana, folio cordifor= 
mi, flore longiffimo atropurpureo. Plum. Tournef. Inft. p. 163 2  Contra-Terva, 
This has a long, round, geniculated Root, as thick as ones Finger, from 
whence rifes a round green climbing Stem, taking hold of any Tree or Shrub 
it comes near, rifing fix or eight Foot high, and covering them with its nu- 
merous Branches at every two or three Inches putting forth Leaves ex 
eorum alis. The Leaves ftand on the main Stalks or Branches, by an Inch 
and an half long Foot-Stalks. They are cordated or triangular, roundifh 
at bafe, four Inches long, and three and an half broad at bafe, frome one round 
Far tothe other, of a dark green colour, fmooth, and having Ribs running 
through its furface, taking their original from the end of the Foot-Stalk. 
The Flower ftands on a three Inches long Foot-Stalk, is made like the Flowers 
of the Ariffolochia’s, of a yellowith colour, the Label being covered with a 
purple Farina, After this follows a Fruit two Inches long and hexangular, 
containing, in fix Cells fo many rows of fimall, flat, brown Seeds, exadly 
of the fhape of a Heart, the points lying in, and the bafes making the an- 
gular Pod, which, when ripe, leaps open, the Seeds dropping out. 
The whole Plant {mells very ftrong, and very gratefully. 
It grows every where in the Woods about the Town. 
The Root is bitterifh, hot in the third Degree, fmelling {weet and rofiny. 
If put in form of a PoultefS on Swellings it Curesthem. It eafes pain, and 
puts off the cold fit of an Ague. It ftrengthens the Heart, Stomach and Brain. 
Cleanfes the Stomach and Breaft, and ftops Fluxes. ernandes. 
The Decoction of this Plant with Oil, is a good Liniment againft Serpents 
bites. The Decoction of the Root, or the fame mixt with water, is good 
in the fame. It takes away cold Fevers, Headaches, Dropfies and Dyfurie. 
If usd in Lotion it Cures the Gout. The Juice, with Pepper and hoe 
Water, Cures the Flux of Blood. AY. ™. 
XXXII. Digitalis, folio oblongo ferrato, ad foliorum alas florida, Cat. p. 60. 
Tab.104. Fig. 2. 
This grows by a rough, round, green, woody Stalk, to about two Foor 
high, having Leaves fet on it without any order, ten Inches Jong, and two 
broad in the middle, indented about the edges, rough, and like to ‘the 
Leaves of Digitalis. ‘Towardsthe top ex alis folzoram come out fouror five 
Inches long Stalks, ‘being branch’d ‘at their tops, and fuftaining feveral 
yellowith green, difform, monopetalous Flowers, with dark {pots within, after 
which follows, in a hard Seed-Veffel, many {mall brown Seeds. 
The whole Plant ‘has a'ftrong ‘fimell. 
It grew by the fides of the Path going to fixteen Mile Walk, and under 
the Town on the Banks of the Rio Cobre. 
XXXII. Solanum lethale, frutiw rubro, femine copiofioré minutiffimo. Cat. 
» 60. 3 
: This rifes to five Foot high, by a quadrangular Stem, as thick as ones 
‘middle Finger, covered with a clay coloured {mooth Bark, being jointed at 
‘every two or three Inches diftance, and having two Leaves at every Joint, {ét 
oppofite to one another, each of which has an Inch long, green, round, Foot- 
Stalk, is nine Inches long, and four broad in the middle, where broadeft, 
being narrow at the beginning and end, a little indented about the edges, 
having one middle, and feveral tranfverfe Ribs, being fmooth, and of ‘a 
dark green colour. Ex alis foliorum come the Flowers, feveral together, being 
on the fame Inch long, green Foot-Stalk. They are yellowifh ou 
2 fae = wit 
