170 The Natural Hiftoryof JAMAICA. 
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purple <Apices faftened round a Stylus of the fame Length and Colours, 
to which follows a Fruit ftanding on a two or three Inches long Foot- 
ftalk perfectly fpherical, of the Bignefs ofa Tennis Ball; It has within 
a ruffet, rough Rind, a mealy Pulp like that of a Pear, fweetifh, {mel- 
ling Itke Garlick, whence the Name, near its Centre are placed many 
black, fhining, large Seeds, like thofe of the Sowr-fop, only fmaller. 
The Leaves are trifoliated or always three together on the fame com- 
mon three Inches long Footftalk, each of which is four Inches Jong. and 
two broad in the Middle, where broadeft, fmooth, thick, of a dark 
green Colour, fet on tothe Stalk by an eighth of an Inch long Peti- 
olus, in itsShape refembling the Lobe of one of the winged Elder- 
Leaves. 
It grows very commonly in the low Land, or Savanna Woods in 
Jamaica and Barbados. 
They are eaten by Way of Deffert and for Pleafure, tho’ they are 
not very delicious. | 
If Swine be fatten’d with them, they communicate their Smell of 
Garlick to the Flefh. 
The bruis’d Leaves apply’d to the dsm, cure its Inflammations, eafe 
Pain and are cooling ; the fame put into the Ears take away the Head- 
ach caus’d from Heat. Pé/o. 
It grows in Malabsr, the Juice of the Leaves taken in Linen, aps 
ply’d to the Inguzua, is diuretic, as is alfo the Fruic bruis’d mix’d with 
Salt Camphire and the Faces of Cats apply’d the fame Way. The Bark 
fteep’din Water and boil'd in Milk and Jefamine Oil, with long Pep- 
per and Ginger till the Moifture is gone, makes a Liniment which 
is good for cold Tumors ;, the Seed boil’d with the Infufion of Rice 
and mix’d, (being bruis'd) with Butier, ripens and foftens Abfceffes, 
XXXIV. Anona, foliis fubtus ferruginess, fruftu rotunda majore, Lavi, 
purpureo, femine nigro, partim rugofo, partim glabro. Cat. fam. p. 206. Tab. 
229. Raij. Hift. Kol. 3. Dandr,p.78, Guanabanus fruite purpurea, Plum. pl. 
Am. p- 43. Arbor Famaicenfis taunt folis, proma parte oyprs) expolité colore 
fulgentibus & quafi fandice tinitis, Chryfodendros Americana, Pluken. 2 42 
quoad titulum. The Star Apple-Tree of Dampier. cap. 7. Caimito folio fub- 
ius attreo, fructu maliformi. Plum. pl. Am. p. 10. 
The Star Apple-Tree. 
.. This Tree has.a. Trunc.of a Foot Diameter, having a reddith brows 
Bark, and rifing £039 or 4@ Foot high, with. Branches and Twigs fpread 
on every Hand, hanging down. and reaching almoft to the Ground; the 
Leaves come alternatively out of the Twigs, have half an Inch long 
Footftalks, they are five Inches lang and. two broad in the Middle, where 
broadeft, {mooth, and of a dark grecen, fhining Colour on the upper 
Side of the Leaf, the under. being of a fueille morte, or rufty ferrugineous 
Colour, fhining, and exally like Sattin, in Beaut 3 Strangenefs, 
much beyond any Leaf I ever beheld. Ad alas foliorum come out a 
great many purplifh, round, fall Flowers, confifting each of five {mall 
fuceulent Petals, and Stamina; to which follows a purple Fruit, fmooth, 
round, like a large Pippin, or Apple, having: a whitifh, fometimes purple 
Pulp like Jelly, with feveral milky Veins running thro’ it, fweet and 
pleafant enough, enclofing reund the Centre of the Fruit fome black, 
fhining, shembeidal Seeds, having a: white Sciffure or Slit om ne of 
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