"236 The Natural Hiffory of Jamaica. 
The Boys eat the raw Berries. It contemperates fharp and biting humours, 
Schwenckf. 
The Juice is ufeful in Cancers. Cam. 
The diftill’d water is good in Fevers. Lob. 
XXVIII. Solasum bacciferum, caule ex foliis tomento incanis, [pinohs, flore 
luteo, fructu croceo, minore. Cat. p. 107. Tab. 144. Fig.3. An folanum {pinofam 
Famaicen{e glabrum foliis parvis minus profande laciniatis, Pluk. Alm. p. 3516 
Phyt. Tab. 316. Fig. § ? An folanum Americanum, tomentofum folio verbafci 
parvo, fruciu flavefcente. Plum. Tournef. Inft. p50? 
The Stalks of this Plant are very thick fet with fhort crooked prickles, the 
points downwards, woolly, round, and about three Foot high, having Leaves 
{et alrernatively every Inch and halfs diftance, about fix Inches long, and five 
broad, beginning narrow, and ending in a point, very much finuated on 
the edges, very rough, downy, of a whitifh green colour, and having one 
middle Rib, and fometranfverie fmnaller ones, in every thing like thofe of the 
Solanum {pinolum fructu rotando. C.B, Piz. only lefler, both befet with prickles. 
In the middle {pace between the Leaves come out the Flowers, two or three 
together on the {ame half Inch long, hoary Foot-Stalk, monopetalous, though 
the Ore be divided into five Petala, refle&ted back, of a yellowith colour, 
and having in the middle many <4pices ftanding up together, making an 
Umbo, as the other Solanum's. After each of thete follows Spherical Orange 
coloured Berries, as big as Field Peafe, having five green Captular Leaves un- — 
der them, and being full of {mall, white, comprefled, irregularly figur'd Seeds, 
lying in an Orange colour’d Pulp. 
It grows on the fides of the Streets of the Town of St. Fago de la Vega, 
near the old Monaftery, and on the fandy and gravelly Banks of the Rio 
Cobre, below the Town on the fame frde of the River. 
The Leaves and Juice are good to temper and cleanfe Wounds and UI- 
cers, and although it be bitterifh, yet ‘tis not hot. Their Koots are very 
bitter, and of thin parts, and excellent Vertue, efpecially the Male. Its 
Decoaion is Diuretick. They open Obftructions of the Liver and Pro- 
ftates, being usd inflead of the opening Roots. It is very much efteem’d 
both by the learned and unlearned. Pifo. 
The Leaves of this Furepeba, which are not prickly, are commonly us‘d 
to heal Ulcers of the Legs. Murcer. 
Margrave making mention of this, but of ino diftin@ion of Sex, Iam ape 
to believe Pifo was impos'd upon; efpecially fince he does not explain him- 
felf {ufficiently about it. 3 ; 
The Root given'to half an Ounce ipurges.all Humours downward. Hern, 
The Decodtion of the Root is good in ‘burning Fevers, and with Honey 
in Catarrhs, and in the Strangury with fome Cardsmoms. It is proper for 
windy Guts. The Juice of the Roots and Leaves is good for Concoction, 
and the Juice with Sugar is good for the forene{s of the Breaft. The De- 
coction of the Leaves is good for the Itch with Sugar and Lime. Z. 7. 
XXIX, Solanum fruticofam lacciferum fpinofam, flore cortleo. Cat. p. 108. 
Tab. 145. Fig.3.. An folanum Amevicanum fruticofum, perfice foliis aculeatum. 
Plum. Tournef. Inft. p.149 ? 
This Shrub ‘by ‘crooked woody Stettis, as ‘thick as ones little Finger, co- 
vered with a ‘whitith coloured Bark, and having here and there fome 
fharp, fall, and {hort ptickles, ‘fifes three or four Foot high, having - 
feveral Branches and Twigs of a green <olour, and, without any order, 
Leaves flanding on an ‘half Inch long Foot-Stalks, they are two Inches and 
an half long, and almoft one broad, fomewhat rough, and like thofe of the 
Amomuns 
