38 The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
digo folio rotundo, five Indigo fera votundi folia; Mant, p. 228? Nil five Indigo 
Spuria, Raij. p.1734. Colutea ex vera Crace foltys argenteis anguftis. Herm, 
ar, Bat pr. p. 325» 
: Het) Another Sort of Wild Indigo. 
This Shrub has a woody Stalk, or Trunc, cover’d witha fmooth, dark, 
brown, Bark, rifing four Foot high, having feveral Branches on every 
Side, befet thick with many wing’d Leaves, the middle Rib whereof is 
four Incheslong, one Inch thereof being naked, the reft, has Pairs of 
Pinng fet oppofite to one another, at one third of an Inch’s diftance, with 
an odd one at the End; each Pinna has apetiolus one eighth of an Inch 
long, is it felfan Inch long, and half as broad, {mooth, of a bluifh green, 
and like the Leaves of St. Foine ; Ex alis Foliorum, comes an Inch and half 
long Spike of many fmall papylionaceous Flowers, partly red and partly 
green, fer round the fame {mall Stalk, and to them follow feveral 
Pods about three quarters of an Inch long, round, falcated, or very 
crooked, bow’d down, or back from the Footftalk, on which they fland, 
and containing four or more quadrangular fhining brown Peas as big as 
a {mall Pin’s Head. 
It grows in the open Grounds and about the Town very frequently, and 
in the Caribes. 
X. Coral arbor Cluf. Cat. Fam. p. 142 
The Bean-Tree. 
‘This Tree is very well defcrib’d and figur’d in the Hortus Malabaricus; 
and is renee planted in Hedges. : 
It has Great Prickles as that of Clufias, — 
The Malabars make Sword and Knive Sheaths of the Wood. ‘The 
Leaves powder’d and boil’d with Coco Nuts till it comes to an Ointment, 
confumes Bubo’s, and cures Bone-aches. The Leaves beat and apply’d to 
the Od ca cures the Cephalea and Ulcers, mix’d with Sagra, eafes 
the Cholick, which is done by the Bark with Vinegar, the. Bean 
freed of its outward Membrane with Sergelim (Se/amium Oy!) and the 
Juice of the Leaves cures Venereal Pains, with Infufion of Rice it 
{tops Fluxes, with Betle Leaves it cures Worms in Ulcers, and with Oy! 
the Itch. H. M. - ee 
XI. Coral arbor non {pinofa, flore longiore & magis claufo. Cat. fam. P. 142; 
Tab. 178, Fig. 1 and 2. Ray. Hiff. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. erage Arbor tas os 
Americana Maxima. Pluken. Alm. p.. 293; Seu Phafai accedens arbor non 
{pinofa Coral ditta fructu rabro inftar Corallzj expolsti Splendente. Ejufa. ib. 
Aroor Coralli Americana femine oblongiore < tenyiore rubicundiffimo, veirine 
[pinofa, folijs late viridantibus. Breyn. Prodr. 2. p. 19, An Coral arbor A- 
mericana. Commel. hort. Amft, p. 211 
Another Sort of Coral, or Bean-Tree. 
This Tree had a Trunc about 9 Inches diameter, cover’d with a reddifh 
brown, or grey Bark, almoft {mooth, only the outward Membrane pe ling 
off here and there ; it had frequent Branches and Twigs ftanding freight 
up, along which ftand a great many Leaves without any order, being 
always three together on the fame three Inches Jong Footftalk, that 
in the Middle having an Inch long Petiolus, or being an Inch farther 
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