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The Natural Hiftory of JAMALCA. 
other, being about 3 Inches in Diameter; it is made up of reddifh brown, 
fharp Prickles, flender and long, the Roots of which ftand in a_ great 
Quantity of Tomentum or Down a little darker coloured than Cotton, 
out of which comes alfo the Flower which is without any Footftalk, con- 
fifting of very many Purple Perata, long and narrow, lying out sas from 
a common Center, to which follows a Fruit, the Footftalk of which 
appears only above with the End of the Fruit, the other Part being to 
be drawn out of the Tomentam, it appears to be a fmall tapering Fruit 
like that of Capficum, about an Inch and an half in Length, on 
the outfide it has a thin, fhining, light purple coloured Membrane, 
and within that a Pulp of the fame Colour with black Seeds in it, as 
the others of this Kind, but this Fruit is much more pleafant than 
any of the others, having a fine Piquancy or Sournefs. 
This Plant varies very much in its Largenefs, Streightnefs of the 
Sulci, Prickles, &c. fo that amongft a thoufand Plants you fhall pere 
haps not fee two jult alike, whence the Variety defcrib’d in Authors. 
Ic grows injthe Town Savanna, near Paffage-Fort, the Salt Ponds, 
and in all the fandy Grounds near the Sea, in Jamaica, as well as in 
moft.of the Caribes or Antelles. 
Ic is fcarce ever without Flower and Fruit. 
The Fruit is very pleafant and cooling to eat. 
Some fay that che inward Pulp of the whole Plant is very good 
Vidtuals, but I could not find aay thing of that, it being very infipid 
even the beft Way prepared. 
—Clafius’s Figure is beft, and Defcription good, altho’ Terrentinus blames 
him, defcribing another Plant of the fame Kind. 
XIX. Cereo. affinis,feandens planta apbylla caule rotundo, articulato, elabro 
fucculento faturate viridi. Cat, Jam. P. 198+: Raij, Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr, p. 21. 
Tab. 224. Fig. 3, 4. An Apocynum humile aizoides, filiquis erectis, cauli- 
culis longiffimis, denticulis rartoribus donatum. Pluk. Mant. p. 37? 
Green-W ith, 
This Plant hangs down from the Branches of Trees and creeps up 
others to forty Foot high; it feems to be only a Stalk with Clavicles 
jointed or made up of Leaves, going one out of the other like the 
Cerez, it is about three quarters of an Inch in Diameter, very fmooth 
without, deep green colour’d, round, jointed or notch’d, at every five 
Inch’s Diftance, from which goes out a three or four Inches long Cla- 
vicle, which catches hold by its broad vifcid End of any Part of a Tree io 
comes near. Oppofite to this comes another as long Clavicle, or Leaf 
thin and membranaceous, froma broad Beginning, ending in a Point; 
the Stem ic felf is folid, juicy, and fometimes branch’d. At feveral 
Times of the Year, and in feveral Places, I have feen this Plant, but 
could never obferve any other Leaf then the Clavicle above mention’d 
Gf that may be called a Leaf) neither could I ever fee it have any 
Flower or kryit, 
{t grew in a Wood beyond Rio Cobre over againft the Angels, on 
the Hills upon great Trees, between Colonel Ballard’s and Major Bragg’s 
Plantations. 
The Juice of this Plant either alone, or mix’d with proper Ointments. 
or Oils, being rub’d on any pain’d Pare takes away old Aches or Pains, 
and helps one to the Ule of their Limbs, after they have been loft in 
the Belly-Ach.. - 
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