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This, and the orher immediately following Sort, as they were mifta- 
ken by feveral for the Eaphorbiam, fo the Inhabitants of Famaica were in 
the like Error when they prohibited the Exportation of this Plant alive, 
on any Account whatever, Ieaft it fhould grow in fome other Place, 
and hinder their expeted Trade for that Drug. But it certainly is not 
the Exphorbium of Ger. becaufe it has no Prickles ftanding two together, 
and isnot milky. 3 
This is very vulnerary being beaten and apply’d, it cures Wounds 
and I was cured fo of a Wound made by one of its Prickles, Mon, 
XV. Cereus altiffimus gracilior frutiu extus luteo, intus niveo, feminibus 
nipris pleno. Cat. fam. p.197. Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 22. Cereus e- 
yectus altiffimus, Sirinamenfis Herm. Par. Bat. p. 116. An Cereus ereitus 
minor, fruciu [pinofo coftarum numero vartans Colobre de Spine. Hifp. Ejufd, 
ib. pota7? Dildo-Bufb or Dildo-Tree of Dampier. cap. 4, & 5. A Stick 
that isgrown hollow like a Net, of Hubert, p. 35. 
| Dildoe-Free the Leffer, or, Torchwood: 
This Tree is in every thing like the former, only fmaller, its Fldwér is 
feven Inches long ; the Fruit is as big as a large Tennis-Ball, with Eminen- 
eies as the other, and has within a yellow Membrane, a white, {weet 
Pulp, like Snow, amongft which lie little black Seeds, interfpers’d as 
in che former. 
It grows with the former, often in the Woods alone 
baldt de Verds and Gallapagos Mlands, Dampier. 
The Fruit of thefe is ripe in O¢fobers 
‘They are eaten asthe former, 
I feveral ‘limes wounded all Parts of both Sorts of this Tree, but 
could never find any Gum tranfude from either of them. | 
The inward Contexture of the Fibres of this Plant remaining after the 
Weather has confum’d both the In and Outfide of it, is ufedfot a Totch 
by the Indians to catch Fifh in the Night-Time, they hold it out of thé 
Ends of their Canoes lighted, and the Fifh leaping at it,they ftrike ‘them 
with their Inftruments, and great Plenty of them are caught fo, efpecially 
Mullets. 
Euphorbium has Milk and a three corner’d and feeded Fruit like the 
Tithymals, Cord. Hift. pl. fol. 209. 7 
Abbevike fays that the Fruit of this Tree taftes like Strawberries. 
» and on Se- 
XVI. Cereus minima ferpens Americana, Plukenct. Cat. Fam. p. 197. Raij. 
Hift, Vol. 3, Dendr. p. 27. An Cereus minimus articulatus ex vera cruce, ejufae 
ab. Cereus fcandens minor Polygonus articulatus, Herm. par. Bat. p. 320. 
Mebocaitus Americanus repens tetragonus flore albo, fractu coccineo. Plum. 
Tournef. Inft. p. 563. pl. Amer. p..19. An Cereus [candens minor arti- 
sulatas coftarum numero varians Volck. 7-97? Cereus fcandens medius poly 
Zonus articulatus /pinofiffimus, Ej, ib? Cereus fcandens minimus articalatas, 
Jexangularis, Ej. ib ? . 
This Plant ts in every thing like the Cerez, it has Furrows, Ribs,Prickles, 
oe, like them, only it is leffer, being not over half an Inch in Diameter, 
its Colour isa little more whitifh, being Glaucous, it climbs the Trees in 
the Woods and fticks to their Barks very clofe, like Ivy, with broad and 
foft Clavicles, and mounts fometimes freight up Trees to forty” or fifty: 
Foot high,-at other Times creeps along the Rocks or Ground, the 
Blower and Fruit are the fame as they are in the other Cereé only fmaller. 
The Flowers are red, Plukenet. 
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