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The Natural Hiflry of JAMAICA. 
Ligon, p. 11, ey 14 obierved chis Fruit at Cape-Verd-ifles, p. 7%. in 
Barbados, where they eat it with Spoous. . b , 
They ripen the Fruit, by letting it lie after gathering, as Medlars. 
It grows in the Plains or Savanna’s every where, if planted, in famaica 
and the Carzbes. an 
It is thought a very delicious Pruic. , 
It begets Wind and bad Humors, the Seeds ftop Fluxes, Herm. 
The Spaniards born in the W Indies called Crollos efteem this Fruit very 
much faying that either this or the preceding area natural Cuftard, Acofta, 
Ir grows in New-Spaia. 
They breed Wind, Laet. The Seeds {top Loofeneffes. éd. 
The Sprouts refift Poyfons, Néeremb. | 
It was a Stranger in Malabar, and ferves for the fame Ufes with the 
following. H. M. | 
The Fruit is dry and hot, fpoils the Liver, caufing Inflammations 
and Heats in the, Face. Tertre. 
It clears the Stomach of tough Humours, Rochef. 
XXXI. Azona, foliis odoratis minoribus, fructa conoide {quammofo parvo 
dulcs, Cat. JH fe 205. 14b. 227. Rat Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 77. Guana- 
banus fructu fubceruleo Plum, pl. Am. p. 43+ Anona sta fpectes Rayfch & 
Kiegetaer nott. tn Comm. Hort, Amft. p. 134. An Guyjane fructus fquam- 
mojus forma trochi Bafil Befler fafc.? An arbor infule Jamaicenfis, Gua- 
jave foltis & facie, forte Guititoroba Brafilienfium., Marcgr. SteensApple 
Belews, Plakenet, Almag. p. 42. Phytogr. Tab. 267. Fig. 2° An Yata Boym, 
lit. N. Fonft. Dendrolog. p..476 ? Thevemots p. 23° An Melenken, Thever. 
1. B. t. 1. p» 264.C.B.507? — Prickle-Apple of India of Hubert p. 39. 
» .w\rS 03. BaIbiC 
» 2 The Sweet-fopsT ree. 
This Tree rifes to about twenty Foot high, having ‘a> ftreight 
Trunc, as big as ones Thigh, cover’d with a grey,.fmooth, Bark ‘on 
the Outfide, red within, having Branches fpread: on every Hand} 
towards the Top, whofe Twigs are thick fer with Leaves which’are 
oval in Shape, very fmooth, of a yellowifh green Colour and fmelling 
fweet, whence fome would have this;Tree to be that from whence 
Benzoin comes. The Flowers are made up of three long triangular 
thick Petala, whofe Outfides are greenifh, but within are of a’Cream 
Colour, or of a yellowifh white, with:a. white,.round, rough Stylus; 
or Rudiment of the Fruit, which, when: the Retala-fall, augments till 
it is as big as one’s, Fift, ofa turbinated of conoid Figure,: bigger‘at 
the, Foorftalk’s End, and decreafing toits round End, having feveral 
oblong, round Knobs, as:big as the End of one’s little Finger, grows 
ing Scale-fafhion, or imbricatim, one over another, like a carv’d or 
painted Bunch of Grapes, of; a yellowifh.green Colour firft, afterwards 
bluifh, cover’d over with a whitifh Hoarinefs or Meal like that on 
Sloes. or Plumbs, containing .a {weet Pulp andifeveral Seeds lying 
Init . y | = eo : 
~ Jt grows in, the Low Lands, or Savanna’s..0 bo. e. 
‘This, Fruit, is,mot fo much \coveted,.as, others of this Kind. °°: 
At .was brought from the Mavhilas and Philippines to Malabar, firft by 
the Chineeand Arabs, and aftet,to E.dada by the Porrugue/e. “The Reaves 
beaten, putuidg Salt to them, make; aRoultefs which put on’ malignant 
Tumors powerfully ripens them, 2Ehe paripe Fruinboi’d with 4 ‘little 
Ginger in fair Water, cures.the Vertigo. cciurcit bas | ab .unoxic 
The Fruit when ripe cools and 1s laxative, H. Mesioo'¢ 21s XAT 
