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poy fon’d, tthe faft upright againtt, our coming im the Way, ts 7 
om our Landing towards the Town, whereof they 
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{tis certain chat moft Parts af this. Tree are poyfonous, and that the 
poyfon’d Arrows of the Indians were anointed by a Subftance, likely 
to be moftly of the, Milk, which they had from this Tree... , 
And yeti have {een a Grove of young Manfanecls, which I was at 
f{ured, had fome Years before, fprung up from the Seeds. of thefe “Frees 
which were lodg’d in the Dung of Goats, which after feeding on their 
Fruit, had reforted ‘thither. — | | ER 
Land-Crabs, Barracuda’s and other Fifh feeding on the Leaves or other 
Parts of thefe Trees, are poyfonous to the Perfons eating of them. 
This is not unlikely to come’ from tlie Parts of this Tree undigelted, 
which may remain about tlieir, Mouths, Stomacks.or Guts, whereas 
their Flefh'may be wholefome enough. | iam 
-u bhave, for the SatisfaQtion of the Reader given the Accounts, of, this 
mott poyfonous T'ree from feveral Travellers, mo(tly in their owa Words, 
and they who defire to know the feveral Countries- where. it grows, 
and Authors: who have fpoke “of it, may find them referrd to la my 
Cat. pl. Inf. Fan, p. 129, 130, and 131, | ae 
Tab. 159. 
Fig. 1. Shews a Branch of the Tree with the Leaves and the Frait. 
2. 4 Branch with the Julus. . eee ae 
3. The Manfanéel-Apple arya and foriveld. 
4. The flony Infide. 
5. The fungous Outfides ud af | 
6 and 7. The ftony Infide broken, where the C ells of the Seeds appear, 
8. Three of the Seeds taken out. Ss 
9. AGam which exfades out of this Tree, like Gum. Guajaci 
IVIL Ricini fruttu glabro, arbor, julifera, lactefcens folio myrtino. cat, ps 
131. Tab. 158: Fige 2,0 = 
This Tree ‘(which is of the fame Kind with that called Cametti. 
H. M, has gray colour’d fmall Roots, thrufting themf{elves on .every 
Hand’ very deep into the Barth, they fend up a Trunc of the Bignels of 
ones Leg, about'20 Foot high, cover’d with a gray Bark on the ourfide, 
‘which within is red and milky. After Rains the Twigs have Juli in 
abundance, about a Quarter of an “Inch long, made up of many 
yellowifh green, round, {mall, very tender Apicés, after which. come 
the Leavesy two Inches long, one broad, in the Middle they are 
broadeft, being narrow both at Beginning and End, having fome. fearce 
perceivable Norches in them, and being of a dark-green-fhining Colour + 
Phe Twigs have here and there, on fhort Footftalks, a fmall green trian. 
gular Fruit, which afterwards comes to be as large as the Grana- bill, pe 
Ven the 
