The Natural fliftory of JAM AIC A. 
AT 
and towards the Top being bow’d down with the Weight of its Leaves, 
which are decompofite, pinnated, and very numerous. The Branches, or 
main, as well as other Ribs, are very thick befet with fhort crooked and 
very fharp Prickles ; the Branches are fet oppofite one to the Other, as are 
the Pinnz, which are placed by Pairs, and even in Number; each Pinna is 
fmooth, green, a little yellowifh, fhining, almoft oval, only fomewhat 
broad near the fhort Foorftalks End, where ’tis join’d to the middle Rib. 
A little above thefe Branches come out two or three Inch long Foor- 
ftalks, fuftaining feveral papylionaceous Flowers of a ferrugineous yellow 
Colour, to each of which follows an almoft round Inch diameter, dark 
brown Pod, the Valves of which are very thick befet with {fharpPrickles, or 
echinated, containing for the moft part, two perfectly round, but fome- 
times deprefs’d, fhining, yellowifh, Beans, very hard, and containing a bit- 
ter Kernel. 
It grows among the Shrubs in the Savanna’s every where, and in Bar- 
bados. 
The Beans are taken inwardly to flop a Gleet, 
Reins. , 
They are made ufe of as round Marbles by Children to play withal, and 
brought very plentifully into Ewrope for making Buttons. 
The Root is hot and bitter ; the Rofinis a Vomit, and it is good againft 
thofe Poyfons which work flowly. P3/o. 
Gerara fays they were offer’d to be fold for Bezoar; but that 
they were poyfonous and emetick, as was reported to him. 
or Running of the 
XV. Lobus echinatus fructa cafio folijs longioribus. Herm. Cat. Fam: 
p-144. Phafeoli ex lobo Echinodi, Clas. Mus. Swamm, p-15. Inimboy frutex 
{pino[a viminea & lobifera nuculis lapideis ad Corallas precarias 5 Aa lobus [pi- 
nofus Clus Surian. — 
There is no Difference between this Tree and the Pre 
Colour of the Bean, which is grey. 
It grows with the former. , , 
It was fent from Powa firft, under the Name of Miliam Indicum, then 
Bonduch. C.B, 
The Beans preferve Children from ill Fortune, being tied to their 
Backs and are good againft the Bitings of Scorpions. Taken in Powder 
by the Nofe, they cure the Megrim, Pains of the Mouth, and are good 
for the Epilepfie ; the Quantity isas muchas t 
it be drank in Wine to the Quantity of a Cicer, it cures Quartans, the 
Colick, and refifts all Poifons. This Fruit is much efteem’d by the 
Turks, and was fent with an Account of thefe Vertues from Conftautinople 
and Alexandria, where it was much pris’d, Pona 7 
I think the Eaft and Weft-India Plants are the fame, tho’ from the 
Difference of the Defcription of the Leaves, Zanoni would argue the 
contrary. 
The ae and Bark beaten and given in Decoéction, help Ruptures, and 
the Leaves do the fame, if apply’d to the Parts with Coco-Nut beaten : 
The Beans beaten and us’d with Coco-Nut Milk are good for Ruptures ; 
they diflipate Wind, cure the Colick, and roafted to Powder are good 
to provoke the Menjtraa, The Pith is good in the Stone. H. M. 
Both the Figure and Defcription of the Rhamnus myrtifolius ex infula Sti. 
Chriftiphort Coruut. p. 83. agree to this, notwithftanding what Dr. Plukenct 
faysin his Mant. p. 2.and 170. | 
Thefe Nuts are often caft Afhore by the Sea on the 
of Ireland and Scotland, and are called Molucca- 
L 
cedent, but the 
North Weft Coafts 
Beans by the Inhabitants 
of 
wo Grains of Pepper. If 
