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The Natural Hiflury of JAMAICA. 
binding, and withal very ftomachic, it is good againit the Flux, Squeam- 
ifhne{s and Vomiting, the Flowers are adftringent likewife, but moft 
of all the Bark of the Fruit, which is good in Ruptures, Fluxes, Gar- 
garifms for fore Throats, loofe Teeth, &c. 
The Flowers cure the Prolapfus Inteftint with Galls, Trag, 
The Flowers ufed as Rofes make a Sugar like them. Math, 
The Fruit comes well if the Trees be clean’d, the Leaves fall not 
off. Tertre. 
Phillips, ap. Hakl. p.3. p-476. found this Tree about Panuco. Ward 
ib. p.758. at Sierra: Leona. Pretty ib. p, 823. at St. Helena, 
Pyrard, cap. 10. p. 85. met with it at the Maldives, & cap. 24, p. 236. 
at Bengale. co cap.27. p. 286. at Calecut. p. 2. p. 88. in Ceylan, p. 3. ps 
63. and at Marocco with Figs. 
Ligon, p. 14. in the Cape-Verd Mes, c& p. 70 in Barbados, where Hedges 
are clipt and made of them. 
Pomegranats were found by Bellon ap. Purchas lib. 8. cap. 13. p. 1379. 
near Mount-Sinai, Newberrie, ib. lib. 9. cap. 3. p. 1411. at Anna, Cart- 
wright ib. lib.g. cap. 4. §.2. p.143z1. at Casbin, By Jo. dos Sanétos, ib. 
lib. g. cap. 12. §. 4. p. 1536. at Sofala. By Marco Polo ap. Purchas, lib. 1. 
p-73.in Perfia. 
Saris apud Purchas, lib. 4. cap. 1 §. 1. Pe 336. faw them at Comora. Cop- 
land, ib. cap. 8. §.1- p- 467. at Surat in Gardens. And Fernandez. tb. lib. 
7. p. 1183. §. 2. in Erhiopia. | 
Oviedo lib.8. cap. 1. faysthat they were firft brought from Spain to 
Efpanola, 
Hedges are made of thefe Trees in Bermudas, Smith, p. 184. Ra- 
wolfe, p. 1. cap. 2, obferved them about Tripols. cap. 6, about dleppo, 
and about Anmaid. cap. 5. 
Pomegranate (Rinds) Pills tan the Goat Skins in which they churn in 
Arabia, Cartwright ap. Purchas, lib. 9. cap. 4. §. 1.p. 1422. 
Pomegranates were taken Notice of by Hernan Lopex de Caftaneda, cap. 
at Mombafa. And by Terry p. 96. in the Mogul’s Country. 
XXIV. Malus Punica pleniflora flore majore. Cat. Jam, p.201. Batauftia 
rubra. Caftell, Hort. Mef]. p.2- Balauftia, Sterbeeck. p, 192. Malus Punica, 
flore pleno. Hort. Reg. Pari/. Balauftes, Pommet. 180. Malus Punica Ba- 
lanstifera, feu flore pleno, Grifl. virid. p. 44. 
This Tree grows here with the former, but feldom has, if ever, any 
Fruit; itis good for the fame Purpofes. 
XXV. Papays major, flore & fructu majoribus pediculis curtis infidentibus, 
Cat. Fam. p. 202. Papaya Peruvianorum. Aman. Hort. Bof. p. 26. Frews 
Arbor utriufq, Indie platant foliis Monosteleches, fructu mali cydoutj aut me- 
bonis magnitudine. Plukenet Tab, 278. Fig. 1. Papaya frutiw Melopeponis 
efigie, Plum. Fournef, Inft. p. 659. pl. Am. p. 20. 
| The Female Papa-Tree. 
This Tree has feveral round Roots fpread on the Surface of thie 
Earth on every Hand, from whence rifes to fifteen Foot high, a freight 
Stem of about a Foot Diameter, hollow, foft, and cover’d with an 
Afh-colour’d, almoft fmooth Bark, having here and there Ve/tigia ot 
the fallen off Leaves ; the Trunc is often, tho’ not always branch’d, and 
thefe Branches, as well as their main Stem have their Leaves near their 
Tops, coming out on every Side of them; they itand on long, round 
and 
