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The Natural Hiftoryof JAM AICA. 
Species of this Kind; every one of them is triangular, each Side 
three Inches broad, furrowed between the Angles very deep, the Ca- 
vity being round, very fmooth, ofa very frefh green Colour, and look- 
ing jult like the Shape of a three corner’d Sword-Blade; on the three 
Eminencies or Angles ftand Tufts of fmall, fhort, white Prickles, in Rows, 
very thick, Star-fafhion, every Leaf is about a Foot and a halt long, they 
creep up Trees, and ftick clofe to them, rifing to forty or fifty Foot 
high, when the Prickles and fucculent Part of the Leaves fall off there 
remains the long, round and ftrong inward Part, which is made Ufe of 
for Withs to tie Pallifadoes clofe to one another, -in Building, é&c. The 
Flowers come out of the Leaves, as in others of this Kind, at firft 
appears a woolly round Knob which afterwards augments, and fhews 
on its Out-fide a great many long, fcaly, reddifh green Leaves, one 
longer than another, euclofing feveral very long, white Petala, ia the 
Middle ofswhich ftand many long Stamina; the whole looking like 
the Flower of the white Lilly ; the under Part of this Flower or Rudiment 
of the Fruit beginning to fwell the Petala drop off and it augments 
ull ic comes to the Bignefs of an Apple with feveral Protuberances on 
its Surface, when ripe ’tisof a yellow Colour, a little reddifh or to- 
wards an Orange, and within a thin Skin lies a white, pleafantly 
fweet Pulp, inclofing a great many fmall, black Seeds, fo that the Pulp 
and Seeds look like /perma Ranarum. 
Sometimes as other Wood-binds it creeps on the Ground, and grows 
there, and then ’tis larger and much fairer. 
It grows on all large Trees in the Savanna Woods towards the Sea’s 
Side, and is fought after by Negro’s for the Withs as well as the 
Fruit. . 
The Fruit is ripe in December and Fanuary. 
The Fruit eaten, makes the'Urine red’ as Prickly-Pears, C. B. Leet. 
Tis chiefly fought after for.its) Withs; which are; ufed wherever any 
thing of that Kind is needful, they are ufually made.into round Hanks, 
ty’'d betwen Sticks: and fo fold in the Markets. . dy 
The Fruit’ is the beft and pleafanteft of any of this Kind, and fo 
more fought after, both for Diferts, and as they are cooling ; theyin | 
two Hour’s Time after eating two or three, colour the Urine as Prickly 
Pears, Oviedo. | 7 | i 
Clufius fays the Indiaris cured broken Bones with this, the Tops when 
green, being bruis’d and apply’d to the Fraature. 
Dr. Plukenet, p.76. of his Mantif[a4, makes the Mippi Cluf. exot. P- 
86. not to be this, but his Cereus minima ferpens Gc. defcrib’d hereaf- 
ter, in which I.do not agree-with him, for I think Clufus’s Mippi tobe 
this Plant, as may.appear by his Defcription agreeing to this and no 
other. jew Ven osan kot 
Pio in the. firft Edition, 1648, of his Book, p.9g. gives an Icon a- 
greeing exactly, with one of the Leavesior, Joints of this Plant. In 
the 23d. Page of .Marcgrave'in the fame Edition it is defcrib’d and fi- 
gurd under the Name of Famasaru Brafilienfibus Cardon Lufitanu, as 
growing on ‘Trees with the.fame Figure. as before Pi/o had ufed; 
and p. 125. is given the Jcom of many Joints growing on Trees which 
is taken by Pifoand given asa Figure to the Samacaru, to which it ne 
Ways agrees. Péfo in the fecond Edition viz, 1658. p. 188. takes his firft 
Icon but leaves his firft Defcription, which belong’d to another Plant, 
for that of Marcgr,,for.the.moft Part. There are ‘likewife fome Dif- 
ferences,,1 fuppofs aceidental.in the Colour) of the Fruit, which is ei- 
ther, red .or -yellow, . which, am apt.to believe comesfrom the Soil, 
Rains, or fome fuch like Caufe; . Fran- 
