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2 38 The Natural Eliftory of Jamaica. 
This grows in feveral places about the Town of St. Jago de la Vega, and 
in Guanaboa, near Mrs. Guy’s Houfe, in her Plantation, but I cannot be pofi- 
tive that tis wild. It grows likewife in the Caribes. 
They are eaten by fome here, are thought very naughty, and yielding 
little Nourifhment, though they are eaten either boil’d or in Sauce by the 
Spaniards. 
They are good to cat, being cooling, give a relifh to Sauces, and take off 
the ill effects of Zndian Pepper, which is too heating. fof. 4co/Pa. 
The Fruit is innocent, and not bad {mell’d. Ge/z. 
This came firft from the Pers Iles. The Fruit boiled or fun'd in Wine is 
good again{ft the Scab. Cam. 
The Juice is good for Eyes with Defluxions, againft Ery/pelas’s. The 
Chymical Oil is good for Burns, and to procure fleep rub’d on the Temples. 
One flept in a frenzy with thefe under him, and in his Hand. ¥ B. 
The Fruit boil’d, or infus’d in Oil, is good againft the Itch. Park. 
XXXII. Solanum veficarium erectum folani vulgaris foliis. Cat.p. 110.  Alltes 
kengi Virginianum fructu luteo. Tournef. El. p.126. Inft. p.151. An folanum 
veficarium Virginianum pdocumbens annuum folio lannginofo. Bob. hift. Ox. part.3. 
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: This has a four-{quare hollow green Stalk, rifing three Foot high, branch’d 
out on every fide. The Branches have feveral Leaves fet onan Inch long 
Foot:Stalks, they are two Inches long, one broad, ending in a point, of a 
dark green colour, and like the Leaves of the ordinary Solamum. The 
Flowers are on the tops of the Branches, on half an Inch long Foot Stalks, 
monopetalous, . with five notches in them of a yellowith white colour. After 
thefe follows red Bladders, in all things like thofe of A/kekengi. 
. It grows by the Rio Cobre in wet places above the Town.’ ~ 189 
The Fruit is eaten, and tafts like European Winter-Cherries. A Deco@ion 
of the Herb ferves to wafh the Legs. Maregr. 
The Fruit is of feveral parts, and takes off the Obftructions of the Liver, 
and Kidnies, differing only from that of Ewrope in that its Diuretick quality is 
more remifs. Pifo. | i 
The Root is hot, cures Surfeits, refolves Wind, provokes Urin, ‘eafes 
pain in the Belly mix’d with Zndian Pepper. The Decoétion drank, 6¢ the 
Root to a Scruple in quantity, ftops all Fluxes from hot Canfes, and applied 
to the Breafts drys up the Milk. Hzerz. 3 
_| The‘Jndiays and Chinefe cat it with Capfcum, and love Apples. The green 
Juice is ufed im hot Difeafes of the Bladder and Kidnies, and in Venerea! 
Gonorrheas, it is a great Remedy eafing pain. Bont. 
The Juice diminifhes the Tumours of the Tefticles. The Roots help the 
burning Fever, and fried with Oil helps the Dropfie called pitao, A. Mt. 
XXXII. Pifamdecimum five veficarinm fruttw nigro alba matula wotato. CB. 
Cat.p. 10. Corindum ampliore folio fructu majore, Tournef. El. p. 342. Life 
PB 431. Cor Lndum frutin majore Pluken. Almv p. ¥x0. : 
This has a woody, cornered, tough Stalk, taking hold-of any Tree or 
Shrub it comes:near by its Clavicles, and mounting ‘to eight or nine Foot 
high, the tops then falling down, and covering the Tree or Shrub it Climbs. 
At about every three Inches diftance it puts forth Jeaves, Clavicles and 
Flowers, at the fame place. The Leaves, ftand on two Inches and an‘ half 
long Foot Stalks. They are very much divided or laciniated, cut always 
into’ nine Sections, flanding:thrée together on the fame common Peticlus, 
coming from the-énd of the Foot-Stalk, that ‘divifion of the three oppofite 
to the end'of the Petiolus, or in the middle is the biggeft, being two seroma 
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