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The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 239 
a sai 
Jong, and one broad where broadeft, deeply notch’d, or cut in on the edges 
of a dark green colour, being very {mooth, foft, and thin, the other two at 
Bafe, being of the fame fhape, éc. only {maller. The Clavicles ftand op- 
pofite to the Leaf, being five inches long. Ex alis foliorum come the Flowers 
feveral together, {landing on three Inches long Foot-Stalks, being white, pen- 
tapetalous, andvery open. After the Flowers follow three cornered, oblong 
Bladders, having in each of them three diftin@ Cells, and in every one of 
thefe lies faftened to a membrane, a round, dark, brown, or black Seed, 
about the bignefs of a {mall Field Pea, having three Triangular Lines, meet- 
ing at the Center of a clay coloured, or whicidh triangular or cordated 
{pot, which is at the place where ‘tis join’d to the Bladder, or its bilus. 
It grew-on fome Bufhes, on the Banks of the Rio Cobre, a little below the 
Town, and very copioufly among the Shrubs on each fide of the way, riding 
through the Zhickets, near the Moneque Savanna, in the North fide of Fa- 
maica, and in the Caribes. 
There is a variety of this, which isin every thing les, but I believe it no 
diftiné Kind. 
From the likenefs of the divifion of the Leaves of this, to thofe of Parfley, 
it got the name of wild Parfley in the Caribes. 
This is no Solanum, becaufe it has no Berries. Ge/n. 
Ic’s not Llopyrum. Col. 
Its thought good for Difeafes of the Heart. Schrtencf. 
The Seeds occafion greater Sleep than Opium. Cord. 
The Plant beaten with water, and applied cures the Gout, and coldnefS of 
the Joints with ftiffnefs. The Juice of the Leaves with Zit Avanacu Oil 
Purges. The juice warm is good forthe gouty, with black Cumin Seed ‘cis 
good for the Heartburn, the beaten Leaves are good for the Cough mix’d 
with Sugar, and boil’d in Oil it is good for the Eyes. A. M1. ) 
XXXIV: Pifumtordatum nan veficariam. Cap. vir. Leehaminofa Brafili« 
enfis fructn ovato cofta folit appendicibus autta. Raii hiff. p.1347. Am cords 
Indi folio & facie frute(céns Curaffavica latifolia. Flerm. par. Bat. prod. p 328 2 
Plukenct. Phyt: Tabixv64. Fig.62 0° 
This by round, fmooth, brown Stems, rifes roa greavheighth, mouitifig 
by its ‘Stalk fometimes twenty Foot high, more or lefs, aceorditig to the 
Tree or Shtub ic Climbs, having Leavesiat every half Inch’s diftance, ftand- 
ing on one third part of an Inch long Foot-Stalks, being ufually nine Leaves 
plac’d by threes, on the fame common, {niall Foot-Stalks, thofe thrée in the 
middle, or ftanding oppofite to the Foor-Stalk, being the largeft, and that 
Leaf of the three in the middle the largeft Leaf, being more than an Inch 
long, and about half as broad near the further end where broadeft, {mooth, of 
a yellowifh green colour, augmenting from the Foot-Stalk to near the end, and 
thence decreafing to the point. -Onthe tops of the Branches come the Fruit, 
ftanding in Bunches, or many together'on branched Twigs; ‘having {mall 
Clavieles. Each of themisa Triangular Head, having three plain fides, and 
three very {mall extant membranes, of fharp Gornets, red or black, wheri 
opened containing three, large, black, thining, almoft round Seeds, or 
Peafe, with a white Hilus, Eye or Spot, at that place where they were join’d 
to their Capfulz. 3 
It.grows between Puffage Fort and the Town, on cach fide of the Road, 
onthe Trees in the Woods, and on the Red Hills very plentifully. 
The Fruit bruifed and put into water intoxicates Fifhes. ‘The green 
Leaves bruifed, or their Juice, is good for Wounds, being vulnetary, and 
eleanfing them, Pf. , 
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