428 
The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIC A. 
The Fruit is good for Squeamifhnefs and the Bloody-Flux ; an inebriat. 
ing Wine is made of them; the Budsand Tops make a good Sallad. and 
being bruifed, they yield a Froth of thin Parts, which being put into the 
Byes, clears them, taking away Inflammations, Spots and Clouds, the 
Pain which it firft caufes vanifhing prefently. The Bark, Juice, or Buds 
are good in Gargarifms, againtt infamed Throats, or:in Lotions.for hot 
outward Dileafes of the Body and Feet ; the Leaves and Wood are fowr, 
and adftringent, good for the Appetite and Thirft in Fevers. Black and 
yellow Birds as big as Pyes (Watchpickets) make Nefts on their further 
Ends frequently, to defend themfelves from Snakes, P#/o. 
This Tree hath a brittle Wood and the Fruit hath Maggots in them 
when ripe, Dampier. 
XVIIL Prano forte affinis arbor folio alato, flore herbaceo pentapetalo 
racemofo. Cat. Jam. p. 182. Tab, 220. Fig. 1. Ray. Haft. Dendr, Vol. 3. 
- 43> . 
: ai is Tree came the neareft in its Leaves and Flowers to the precedent 
ofany I met with in this Ifland, wherefore I place it here. It rifeth to a 
bout twenty Foot high, bya ftraight Trunc, cover’d with an‘ almott 
fmooth, greyifh or light brown Bark, with fome few white Spots on 
it. About feven Foot or more from the Ground, it fends forth: feveral 
Branches bowing downwards, the Ends of which are befet without 
any Order, with fome few winged Leaves; the middle Rib being a- 
bout three Inches long; the Pinnz are fet one again{t another, having 
an odd one at the End, each having an eighth of an Inch long’ Foot- 
ftalk, isan Inch long and three Quarters of one broad near the Footftalk 
where broadeft. "They are fet at almoft an Inch Diftance afunder, are 
of a dark green Colour and fmooth. The Ends of the Twigs are branch’d 
out into feveral; two Inches long, green.Stalks, which, juft at the Bot- 
tom are branch’d into others, fuftaining feveral whitifh green penta- 
petalous Flowers, having five green cdpfular Leaves, within which are 
many purple headed Stamina. I never faw the Fruits <2. eli ebs 
The Figure of this compared with Dr. Plakenet’s Arbufculum Ameri- 
canum amplexicaule cerafi folio, corymbofum, Tab. 146. Fig. 4. Alm. “pi a8. 
fhews it to be different, tho” he thinks they may be the fame Maat. p, 26. 
It grows: very plentifully between Paffage-Fort and the Towmof: St. 
Fago dela Vega. TO: 
XIX. Pruno forte affinis arbor maxima, materie rubra, taxa, odorata. Cat. 
Fam. pi 182. Tab. 220. Fig. 2. Raij, Hist. Vol. 3. Denar. p. 43. 
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