244 The Natural Hiftory of Jamaica. 
they are white, and divided in their Margins into five Sections, and to 
them follows (everal red, {mooth Berries, round, as big as a {mall Pea, con- 
taining in an Orange colour'd Pulp, two oblong, brown Seeds, each of 
which is flat on one fide, and rais’d on the other, with a {harp or more 
eminent ledge on it. 
Ic grows in fhady, dark, and moift Woods in the Path going to Sixteen 
Mile Walk, and ellewhere. 
Boil’d in Whey it cures the Flux. Boil'd in Oil it cures bloody Eyes. 
HI. M. 
Gaus: KVI: 
Of Herbs with bulbous Roots, thofe of their Kindred, and of Herbs 
with Flowers that have fix or more Petalaor coloured Leaves. 
Arciffus totus albus latifolins polyanthos major odoratus, fPaminibus 
fex @ tubi ampli margine extantibus. Cat. p.115. Autre forte 
de Lys. Rochef. tabl. prix. Narcif{us Americanus, flore multi- 
plici albo odore balfami Peruviani. Tournef. Inf. p.358. White 
Lilly. 
This hasa Wiaskd bulb as large as ones Fift, made up of one white thick 
Coat over another, as Onions, and having at bafe many white fibers, by 
which it draws its Nourifhment. The Leaves are two Foot long, about 
three Inches broad, channel'd, or being a little concave in the infide, very 
green, juicy and {mooth. In the middle of thefe rifes a flat Stalk, four Foot 
high, not hollow, but fill'd wich a fungous Matter, when cut dropping 
water, about one third part of an Inch thick, and being fharp at the edges. 
At the top of this are fix or feven, or more white Flowers, ftanding each 
on a fix Inches long Foot-Stalk, each of which has a white large Zabus, 
having fix Ribs, very long Stamina, or Lingule with long Apices, dividing 
it into {o many parts, and {tanding up above the Flower on its edge or margin 
two Inches long, being there of a green colour. A Stylus of the fame 
colours, ‘is in the middle. There are fix white, five Inches long, very nar- 
row, divided ‘Petala, which ftand between the aforefaid Lingaule. 
The Flowers of this Plant havea very fragrant finell. 
It grows in the Savanna’s beyond the Black River in the Low-Land Woods 
every where in Famaica, in the Woods in St. Chriftophers, and by the Roads 
in Barbados. 
Jc is not only coveted as as ornamental and pleafant in Gardens, but Jike- 
wife the Roots are us’d all over thefe Iflands, in lieu of White-Lilly-Roots 
for Maturating Cataplafms. 
Ii. Lilio-narci([us polyanthos, flore incarnato, fundo ex luteo albefcente. Cat. 
p-uag5. Lilium Americanum, puniceo flore, bella donna dictum. Herm. par. Bat. 
p-194. Lys des Antilles pareilles a mos Lys jaunes ou Orangers. Rochef. Tabl. 
p. 122. Lilio-warciffus Americanus puniceo flore Bella donna dittus. Pluakenet. 
Alm, p.220. 
The Root of this is no larger than that of a great Onion, or the half 
of ones Fift, a little oblong, made up of many white Tunicles or Coats, 
inclofing one another, after the manner of Onions, having under its Bafe 
maay whitifh fibers drawing its Nourifhment. The Leaves are one Foot 
long, 
