166 ‘The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
with a dry purplifh membrane, coming from the’ under Joint, and on 
its top a four Inches long Spike of Flowers, exactly like the former, only 
larger. 
tt grew with the other on the North fide of Mount Déadlo. 
The juicy Skin flains the Skin of a brown colour, as Black-Cherries, of 
Violets, and therefore is us’d for Ink. Marcgr. 
‘Che Leaves, Stalk, and unripe Fruit, if rub’d, fmell pleafancly, like 
Ginger, and therefore fupply the want of Spices. Hot Baths are likewife 
made of them Pio 
Colsa, in his difcovery of Hi/paniola, mentions Gengevo to grow fponte, by 
which, I {uppofe, he meant this or the precedent. 
XXXVI Cardamomum minus pfeudo-afphodeli foliis. Cate p61. Tab. 103. 
Bie. 3. 
“The Leaves of this had more than an Inch long Foot-Stalks, were four 
Triches long, and more than one broad, in the middle where broadeft, and 
whence they decreafed to both extremes, ending in a point. They were 
even on the edges, thin, and like the others of this Kind. The Stalk was 
naked of thefe Leaves, having now and then fome {maller, without any Foor 
Stalks inciefing the Stalk, one of which was under every Flawer, as in the 
Orchides. The Spike its felf was large, about three Inches long, thick fer 
with Flowers, the under part of which {welled out into a trigonous, oblong 
éad, in which, in feveral Cells, lay much very {mall downy Seeds, as ia 
others of this Kind. The Stalk of this was not over feyen Inches high, but 
Ido not rémember whether it was perfect. 
J liad it about Geenaboa. 
— XXXIX. Avon maximum Zigyptiacum quod vuigo Colocafia, C. B. Cat. p. 6x. 
Arum FEayptiacum florigerum cy fruttum ferens, radice magna orbiculari. Pluken. 
Almag, p.5%. Tamesin St. Helena of Dampier. cap. ult. Tayas. | 
_ Thefe grow very commonly by the Rivulets, which come down from the 
Mountains, running the year long, and are planted likewife by fome of 
the Mnhabitants for Provifion in their Plantations. 
They have a Flower and Fruit, juft like the Avums, which ftands ona 
peculiar Foot-Sralk. | 3 
The Leaves are ufed to carry frefh Fruit, Cheefe, ec. in Madera, | 
Cefalpinus Fays that it grows in Sicily, and that the Root is eaten, and 
the Leayes, boiled in Vinegars... 4 4. se 
~ The Roots-are ufed in Jamaica, being boiled as Tams. ‘They havea biting 
taft in the Throat, if not very well prepar’d, and therefore not very thuch 
coveted, but only infcaree times. eee 
' Alpinus {ays he never could fee it Flower, but I have feen it feveral times 
in Perfection, and therefore he very undeferyedly blames Diofcorides. It ‘is 
éaten by thofe indulging Venery very much, both raw and boiled,; being 
thought helpful thereto. *Tis common inthe Markets, and cheap. <A/pinus 
V eflingius defcribes-and figures it flowering. eee 
[tis thought by A/pinus £9 be the Faba, Egyptia, Cobocalfia & arum Am 
eyptium, of the Ancients. . Reena fays, both Leaves and -Roots. of 
Sin dre éaten, Hib. 7. cap.11, 12. But the common <4rwm is fharp and 
opening, this Adftringent, : Celelaines's, potree. Abate is; 
‘Bellenius found it wild by the Rivulets of Crete‘in great plenty. .. |. 
m Egypt to ‘Rome, there to ‘be fold; whence Martial, 
— 
This was feat fro 
Niliacum ridebis obis, Uinafque fequaces. Bod. a Stapel. 
pias The 
