"The Natural Hiflory of Jamaica. 169° 
XLIV. Aram maximum altilfimas [candens arbores, foliis nymphee laciniatis 
Cat.p.63- An A Vine witha Leaf pretty broad and roundifh, and of a thick 
{ubftance, of Dampier, cap. 162 Dracunculus Americanus colocafe foliis laci-~ 
niatis. Tournef. Inft. p. 161%. 
This has a green jointed Stalk, which has Clavicles, exaétly like the 
Arum maximum trifoliatum altiffimas [candens arbores, Gc. by which it fticks to 
the Truncs of Trees, and comes to be twenty or thirty Foot high, at its 
top having féveral Leaves like thofe of Nymphea when young, but ferrated, 
and finuated about the edges when old, by which it may be fufficiently di- 
{tinguifh’d from others of this Kind. At the top of the Stalk come out 
Flowers, and a Fruit afterwards, like thofe of the other Arum’s. Thefe 
come out from amongft the Leaves. , 
It is very ordinary in the larger Woods of the Curibes, as well as Fa- 
maica. , 
lf this bethe fame that Captain Dazspicr means, he tellsus, that the Leaves 
pounded {fimall, and boiled with Hogs Lard, make an excellent Salve for 
old Ulcers in Legs, andthat one of his Men came to the knowledge of it 
by an Jndian of the Ifthmus of Darien. 
XLV. Arum maximum {candens geniculatum cy trifoliatum foliis, ad bafin an- 
riculatis. Cat. p» 63. An Hinca de Mizmaitl. Hernandez? Seu dracontium 
Mexicanum aromaticum. Flerm. parad, Cat. p. 922 Dracunculus Americanus, 
(candens triphyllus & anritus. Tournef. Inft. p. 161. 
This Plant has a round Stalk of half an Inch Diameter, green, very thick 
jointed, fullofa {pongy MJedulla and milky Juice, From each Joint of this 
go out five or fix Clavicles by them, it takes hold, and fticks very clofe, 
and faft to any Tree it comes near, and rifcs very often to twenty or thirty 
Foot high, being naked of Leaves, till near the top, where are a great 
many round it. ‘The Foot-Stalks of the Leaves encompafs the Stalk, leaving 
a mark when they drop off, making the Joint. Each of them is two Foot 
long, round, green, half an Inch thick, full of a fpongy Matter, and having 
two foliofe fimbrie, one on each fide, green and thin, running half of the 
length of the Foot-Stalk. The Leaf its felf is very deeply divided into 
feven parts, or rather three Leaves with Auricles, the uppermoft, or that 
Leaf or Section in the middle, being the longeft and largeft, viz. a Foor 
long, and half as broad, having one middle Rib, and fome tranf{verfe ones, 
being of a very dark green colour, {mooth, and finuated as the Leaves of 
Arum. The two other Leaves or SeCtions ad bafia, arc leffer than the other, 
and befides have a large Appendix or Ear, at their outfide Bafe, which 
makes up the five Leaves or Sc¢tions, and this Appendix or Ear has another 
like it felf, only leffer, making up the feven Leaves or Sections. Fx alis 
foliorum, at the top come out Stalks, fuftaining within a white monope- 
talous Sheath, Hofe, or membranous covering, a white Peltle, in every 
thing like that of the Arums. 
Every part of this Plant is milky. 
It grows on each fide of the Rio Cobre, below and above the Town, on 
the ae of the larger Trees, and in the Woods in moft parts of this 
Ifland. 
XLVI. Arum faxatile, repens, minus, geniculatum Cr trifoliatum. Cat. p. 36. 
This is in every thing like that above defcribed, only leffer, and the 
Leaves without Ears, and each of the three Leaves or Sections equal to one 
another. The Flowers and Fruit are likewife the fame. 
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