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The Natural Hiftory of J}AM ACA. 
the fame light brown Colour, and contains three roundifh Seeds in {6 
many Loculaments. 
It grew ina Wood between the Town Sevanna andtwo Mile Wood, 
in a Gully in great Plenty. 
This, *tis plain, is not the Lycium myrti foliis fubrotundis Americanum 
Lactefcens limbis foliorum argentatis. Pluk. Phyt. Tab. 234. Fig. 7. Alm, 
P. 234. Tho’ the Dr. . 122. of his Mentiffa thinks it may be the fame. 
C'niate? FH. 
Of Trees bearing dry Fruit which are not Siliquofe- 
Palma Indica Nucsfera Coccus dita, Raij. Hift. pl. p- 1356. Coconut of 
Cat. pl. fam. p. 132. Dampier cap. 10, &C. Yay-fa Palma de Coco Boym, 
Thevenot. Relat. p. 17. | 
The Coco-Tree, 
[HIS Tree is fo well and fo often defcrib’d and figur’d, efpecially in 
the Hortus Malabaricus, that I fhall do neither, but refer to Au- 
thors taken Notice of in my Catalogue of j4Amaica Plants, p. 132, 133, 
and 134. 3 
7 he NI ut muft be good and wholefome Nourifhment, the Inhabitants 
of feveral Ifles living on Nothing elfe. 
The Tree, or the Wood is good for Mafts for Ships, Planks and Nails, 
as well as Boards and Timber for Houfing and Firing. 
The Leaves for covering Hats, Houfes, es. and for Sailes. 
The outward Skin for Ropes, Okum, which {welling more with wet, 
is better Okum than ours, 
They are planted in all the hot Parts of the Eaf and Weft- Indies, for their 
Ufe, but are moft plentifully found, and I fuppofe, Naturally wild in the 
Maldives and the defert Ea/t-India Ifles near the Shore, being not found in 
the Midland Parts, 
The Oil, made by Decoétion, is as hard as white Wax: The Way 
of making it is to grate the Kernel, and boil it in Water, the Oil fwim- 
ming at Top is taken. off, and is reckon’d very cooling, duretick and 
Pectoral, good for Burns and for every thing that Oil of fweet Al- 
monds is. 
The Pulp of the Nut grated and mix’d with Water, makesa Milk, 
to be ufedto make Cheefecakes and any other Way as ordinary Milk, 
and mix’d with fome Salt, drank to eight Ounces, is good for Worms, 
and in the Eaft-Indies is mixed with gheir Rice for Food. ; 
The Top of this Tree, the Germen being tender, is eaten as that of a 
Cabbage-Tree; the elder the Tree, the tenderer, but the, Tree after ’tis 
taken off, perifhes. } Ng 
The Top of the Tree being wounded, gives a Liquor, which io a 
Days Time, is vinous, and fit to drink, in three or four Days it turns 
to Vinegar, and if when new it be evaporated, it leaves a fort. of 
Honey or Sugar. 
The inward hard Shell is made into Drinking-Cups, and is thought 
by fome, to give an Alexipharmac. nervous Antiparalytic and Antiapo- 
plectic Quality, ‘to any Liquor ftanding in it, and makes Veffels of all 
Sorts, but thisis not tobe depended upon. Of che Shell is made a Coal 
ufeful to Goldfmiths, =~ = The 
