214. The Natural Hiftfory of Jamaica. 
The Stalk of this Plant is large, green, round, wooddy, crooked, and 
rifes to a Foot high. The Branches are fmall, and hairy, {uftaining Leaves 
juft like thofe of Clary, whence the name. The Flowers are many, pen- 
tapetalous, of a pale blue colour, fet in a double row on the upperfide 
of the Branches, and turn’d like a Scorpions Tail, like the other Fleliotropes. 
After which follow feveral cornered, brown Seeds. 
It_grows about the Town of St. Fago de la Vega very plentifully in Famaica, 
and in the Caribe Mlands on dry Grounds. | 
It is cleanfing, and having a confolidating quality, is good againft 
Wounds and Ulcers; it is likewile good againft moft hot Cutaneous Dikates 
Pifo. 
i this be the Bena-patfia. Ht. M. the Authors of that Book fay that boil- 
ed in Coconut-Oil, it cures the Difeafe called Pitao by drying, and is given ~ 
in the poyfonous bites of the great Fox Fakbalfen. 
IV. Fieliotropium Caralfavicum hormini foliis anguftioribus. fort: Beaumont. 
Cat p. 94. 
This ae larger than the precedent, having Leaves on its Stalk, ufually 
taking their original oppofiteto one another, being narrow at the beginning, 
and pointed at theirends, not fo rough asthe precedent, nor blunt as it, ‘buc 
more glabrous or f{mooth, TheSpikes fometimes come oppofite to the Leaves, 
and are flenderer than thofe of the precedent. 
It grew in one of the Caribes, where I foundit. 
V. Heliotropium minus, Lithofpermi foliis. Cat. p. 95. Tab: rye tie. A. 
This Plant refembles very much the Litholpermum arvenfe radice rubra. C.B. 
only ‘tis fmaller. Ic hasa fimall ftraight root, dark brown colour’d, from 
whence f{prings up one Stalk, three or four Inches high, divided into fo many 
Branches, which are bowed or reflex’d like a Scorpions Tail, or the other 
Fieliotropes. Khe Leaves come out alternatively, and are like thofe of 
Grommil, only {maller. The Flowers are white, pentapetalous, and plac’d 
like thole of the other Héliotropes. After which follow the Seeds. four be- 
ing always together, each of which is almott triangular, of a dark ‘brown 
colour, and irregular form. Hi SOE DEE 20 
8 It grows very plentifully every where in the Town Savavnd’s “after 
tie Se ' rae : ‘J 
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