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The Natural Hiftry of JAMAICA. 
deep Incifure, or Notch in each of them, round at Bafe, two fhort Points 
and a Defe&t in the Middle between them, of a yellowifh green Colour, 
fmooth, thin, having feven or more Ribs beginning from the End of | 
the Footftalk, and going thro’ the Leaf with fome traniverfe ones, making 
the Leaf very nervous ; at the Ends of the Twigs come the Flowers feveral 
together, ftanding on their diftin@ half Inch long green Footftalks, having 
a long white Stylus with a green Apex, many white Stamina ftanding 
round it, ali pretty long, and inclos’d by five red, white, mix’d, or 
ftriated long Petala, and to this follows many five or fix Inches long very 
flat, brown, Pods, containing feveral Peafe of the fame Colour, 
It grows on the Hills every where in this Ifland. 
There is great Variety inthis Tree, both as to the Leaves in Magni- 
tude, and as to the Colour of the Flower, which becaufe I have feen to 
be white red, ftriated, mix’d, ec. on the fame Branch, Itake to be no 
real Differences, but only Varieties, and perhaps others of the Hortus Mz- 
labarieus may be here. : 
This Wood is very hard, whence the Name of Ebony. 
The Decoétion is a good Lotion for Ulcers: The Root boil’d in Wine 
cures Puftles in the Kar, being rub’d withbit. It cures the Toothach, 
being put toit, or eaten. The Barkin Lotions cures cutaneous Difeafes. 
The Flowers being beaten with Pepper and apply’d to the Forehead, cures 
the Headach. H. M. ; 
XXX, Uruca, Cat, Fam: p- 156. Tab. 181. Fig. 1+ Urucu arbor Indica 
fruity birfuto caftanee coccifere flore rubro cujus Indiani tinéturam illam olera~ 
nam coccinea famofam extrahunt & per modum veftimenti inunouut corpora {ua 
Surian, An Urucu arbor coccigera fructu glabro flore carneo A Mitelle America 
BA MAXima tinctor ta. Tournef. el. p. Inft. p. 242. Urucht Roucou Sterbeeck. 
p. 203. Urucu arbor Indica coccigera ftuttu glabro flore carneo Triumfett. M.S, 
Cupian. Hort. Cath. p. 236. 
Arnotto. 
This Tree, or Shrub rifes to about eight or nine Foot high, having feve- 
ral Branches, spony doi Head- The Trunc has a whitifh or grey 
Bark,the Branches a brown one, as alfo Leaves without any Order ftanding 
on three Inches long Footftalks, fix Inches long and: five broad at the round 
Bafe, where broadeft,, ending ina Point, being fhap’d like a Heart, of a 
dark green Colour, and having feveral Nerves or. Veins appearing in 
them. The Flowerscome out feveral together, ftanding on brown Foot- 
ftalks, and confift of five large Petala, of a white incarnate-Colour. like 
Peach Flowers, and in the Middle very many Stamina of the fame Co- 
lour, to which follow many oblong, round pyramidal : Pods, fomething 
like a Chefnut, two or three Inches long, and one broad, of a redifh 
Colour, befet with blunt Brifles, Hairs, or ftrong Strings, like thofe of Burs 
only red, ttanding out, but not aculeated, within which Pod, or Seed. 
Veifel, are contain’d thirty or forty {mall irregularly figur’d Seeds, having 
2 = —° es two Gabe te or fmal] Holes, and being all cover’d 
with a red ungratefully imell’ itt. i 
Hand Ris: rechoes ee hs y d mitt Pulp, or Pafte, infefting the 
t is planted ina great many Places of this Ifand, and.Barbados in thej 
fat and richeft Bottoms, and thrives very. well ‘with. very Sacra 
Sometimes whole Plantations have nothing elfe to fupport them, but 
St the Balls. of this Dye of the Seeds after the following man- 
Some 
