The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. I 99 
.Lis common on this fide the Ferry going to Liguance by Land, and in 
the North-fide of this land in feveral places. , 
.» Lis reckoned one of the beft Adftringents, therefore its Juice or Decodi- 
on, and all parts of ic are thought to be very vulnerary, ftopping all man- 
ner of Fluxes, either of Blood or Matter, and that taken feveral ways. 
It is Cold and Dry, drying Wounds and Ulcers, abounding with too 
much moifture, taken as a boil’d Sallet, it cures the Dyfentery. The juice 
heals Ulcers of the Ears, and ftops the Catamenia, a Cloath dipt in this 
juice being made ufe of by way of Peflary. It flops bleeding of Wounds, 
being mix’d with white of Eggs. Dorf. 
_ XVIN. Aceris fruitu herba anomala, flore tetrapetalo albo. Cat. p. 83. Tab, 
OB its he Gee 
This Plant has very {mall, brown, fibrous Roots, by which it creepeth 
along the Earths furface, fending up now and then a round, red, jointed, 
‘and juicy Stalk, about a Foot andan half high, baving Leaves coming out 
at the joints alternatively, atan Inch and an half’s diftance, ftanding on an 
Inch long, round, and red Foot-Stalks. ‘They are three Inches long, half 
as broad, rough; of a yellowith green colour, indented on the edges, being 
of an irregular Figure, having as it werea defect on one of the fides of the 
Bafe by the Foor-Stalks end, and the other fide produced lower like an Ear, 
from whence it déetreafes, ending in a point. The Flower comes at top, is 
tetrapetalous and white, two of the Petala being large, and {et oppofite to 
one another, and two of them being much fmaller, fet in the fame manner 
with yellow Stamina. After this follows one Seed, which is quadrangular, 
large, brown, oblong, inclofed in a two wing’d, triangular, extant mem- 
‘brane. which furrounds it. : 
It grows in the woody and fhady Paths going to fixteen Mile Walk by the 
Rio Cobre, in the fhady Woods by Hope River, and other fuch places in fe- 
veral parts of the Ifland. ; 
This in many things refembles the Zferianarinampuli. HZ. M. p.9. Tab86. 
p. 167. | 
XIX. Clematitis prima five fylveftris latifolia. C. B. foliis ternis. Cate 0.84, 
LMG 129. FIG. Eo sl poe? 
I'did not obferve any difference between this Plant here, and ours in Ew 
rope, but in every part found a perfect agreement, only the Leaves were not 
five as ours, burt for the moft part always three on the fame Foot-Stalk, which 
may be the variety of Soil. C.B. fays of his, that Mire in foliorum divifuris 
ladit. | 
It growsin the Woods going to Guanaboa by the Road fide, and over the 
Rio Cobre near the Angels. fone : 
__ ‘The Stalks are ufed for Withs. 7 eo 
"The Root heated in Water, and ween two Glafles of Wine, diluted 
‘with Sea-water, Purges Hydropical Peop G+ 1. | Sh ate mon re 
~ The Juice and Flowers beaten, or boil’d, rub’d on the Skin, takes out its 
fpots. Itis very Hot. 7Zrag- ch Smog ; 
sf Pliny vells a thefe Sticks rub’d againft one another they fire, Which 
is the way uféd by the Jndians to make Fite at this day. 
XK! Solanum racénaolam Americanum. Rati. Cat. p. 84. Phytolacca Amiri 
cana. Tournef. El. p. oe. Phytolacca Americana rote nije) Ejafd. Inft. 
7. 299. Blétum maximum canle rubente Virgin. few Amaranthus Americanas 
baccifer. Schuyl. p. 14. Solanum Pirginkepan 1H twaxinoutn ratemnofum se 
