The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. — 
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The Bark is hot and dry in the fourth Degree, taftes fharp like Cloves; 
is good Sawce, purges the Blood and is ufed againft Poifon: Pieces. of; 
‘t clean the Teeth, confume the immoderate Humidity of the Stomach 
and Brain, difcufs Wind and help the Colic, boil’d with Wine it is good 
againft the Gout; it is not glutinous as Cinamon, but dry and crumbling , 
Herz. . 
The Bark powder’d ftrengthens the Heart and Stomach, Lugd. 
The Pigeons are drawn to this T’ree by the Smell, Nieremb. 
It is abufively ufed for Nutmeg and other Spices in the Epices. fines, 
Pommet. 
The Bark gives Meat a good Tafte, is an excellent Alexipharmacy 
and purges the Blood, Laet. | 
Cinamon-Trees are taken notice of in the Province of Samaco, having 
Fruit like Alcornogues or Acorws, being a wild Kind different from that of 
the Eaft-Indies, by Galvanos, ap. Purchas. lib. 10, cap. 1. p. 1695. 
he Tree that beareth the Rind of black. Cinamon of which Mr. 
Winter brought from the Streights of Magellan, was obferv’d in the firft 
Voyage to Virginta, ap. Hakl. p.246. where ’tis faid, that their Drink in 
Virginia, except in Grape-Time, is Water boil’d with black Cinamon, 
Ginger or Sa(faphras, p. 249, and this in an Hand: near Wingendacoa. 
XXVIII. Arbor baccifera, laurifoliay pratt Corallino ribium inftar race- 
mofo, calyculato, uemenato. Raij Hift. Val. 3xDendr.-p. £508 Tab. 190. Fig. 2. 
‘AaoD oda lo cQutrins- Tree: : 
This Tree rofe to about fifteen. Foat ‘high, by a Trunc as thick as 
ones Thigh, undivided till near the Top, where at had numerous Branches, 
dn whofe Twigs were Leaves fer without any Order, having no Foot- 
ftalks, being two Inches long, and one\ broad at the round End, where 
broadeft, for they begin narrow/and increafe by Degrees till they end in a 
round Point, being white on their Surface like to Halimus.. The Flowers 
I faw not. The Fruit were many, round, red, caliculated Berries, as big 
as very {mall Peas, fticking to.a common. two -Inches long.String, by a 
{mall quarter of an. Iach long Footftalks,. ia\Colour and. Way of Growth, 
looking very like our Currans, or Ribes, whence its’ Name,.each of. which 
Berries has in a reddifh Pulp feveral tranfparent roundifhy red Ain... . 
It grew on a Bayes fide between Mr. Abraham's Plantation and the De- 
vils Bowling-Green, in the North Side ofthis Tfand. 
A Negro Hunter told me the Berries were not eatable but poyfonous. 
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Of Trees which bear Berries, that are neither Ombilicated not Calicalated, 
Gt 213% AT NEWT DOS UY X fl 2ovbou 
I. Erébinthus major; betula: cortice, fructd triangalari. Cat. Fam. p. 167. 
Rl Tab. 199. Fig. 1, 2. Raty Aift. Vols’ Dendr: p. 50. An Terebinthas 
Americana palamatata ditta, Commelin,: Hort. Amit. p. 149° Arbor Tacama- 
haccam liquidam ferens' foltys non [erratis” Breyn: prodr, 2. p. 107 ? JOS 
Miibnvoi ~ Sloot an tay 780) 
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3 “Yr hie Ere has great’ many: Roots, running fuperfcially on the Earth 
on ¢very Hand for fome: Kass peso fromthe Middle. of which Bice a 
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