rAnmat HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 1?3 



Hattiiins' the colour of Madeira wine. When this is settled, talce such part of it as is 

 clear, aiul let it cool, and add to it one third its ([iiantity of rum. Put the vessel con- 

 taining tlif; i'n^xtur!'tnto cool water, and, when used, it may be sweetened. The dose, 

 to be given for three morninss in succession, and afterwards a dose of caitor oil, is as 

 follows : To a child of eight or ten months old, a tea-spoonful ; of two years, two tea-, 

 spoonfuls; of six years, one and a half talkie spoonful ; of twelve years, half a wine- 

 glass ; a full grown person, a wine-glass full. A decoction of the bark made \eiy 

 strong, and given to a horse or mule to the quantity of u pint at a lime, aiid repciited 

 occasionally, cures them of bots and worms. 



CABBAGE TREE. ARECA. 



Cl. 25, on. 1. Monoecia- eyvncandrfa. Nat. or. Palmte. 



Gen. CHAR. Male flower calyx a bivalve spathe ; spadix branched; proper peri- 

 anth three-leaved ; corolla three acuminate rigid petals ; the stamina nine fila- 

 ments, the three outer longer than the rest : Female flowers, in the sarrje spadix. 

 Calyx a spathe common with the males ; proper perianth three-leaved ; corolla 

 three acuminate rigid petals ; pericarp a sub-ovate berry, fibrose, surrounded at 

 tiie base with the imbricate calyx ; seed ovate. 



OLER.4CEA. POT-HERB. 



Talma altlssima non spinosa, fructti pruniformi, minore, racemosaf 

 spano. Sloane, v. 2, p. 115, t. 215. Finnis infenie taginanti- 

 bus, caadice uguali annulalo, fruclu viinori. Browne, p. 343. 



Leaflets ouite entire. 



The true cabbage-palm is the most beautiful, and perhaps the tallest of all trees. 

 The trunk, is perfectly straight, and marked with rings at the vestigra of the footstalks 

 of the leaves. Near the ground it is often seven feet in circumference, but tapers as 

 it ascends, and attains the height of one hundred and seventy or two hundred feet. 

 The bark is of an ash-colour till within twenty or thirty feet of the extremity of the 

 tree ; when it alters at once to a deep sea green, which continues to the top. About 

 five feet from tiie beginning of the green part upvvards, the trunk is surrounded with 

 its branches in a circular manner ; all the lowermost spreading horizontally with great 

 regularity ; and the extremities of many of the higher branches bend wavenigly dowrtr 

 Wards, like plumes of feathers. These branches when full grown, are twenty feet lon^' 

 more or less ; and are thickly set on the trunk alternately, rising gradually superior to 

 one another : Their broad curved sockets so surround the trunk, that the sight of it, 

 while among them is lost, which again appears among the very uppermost branches, 

 and is there enveloped in an upright, green conic spire, which beautifully terminates 

 its great height, and which soon xuifolcls itself into a new branch. The above meii- 

 <Boned branches are somevvliat round underneath, and slightly grooved on the upper 

 side : They are likewise decorated v/ith green pinnated leaves, from eignty to one 

 hundred and twenty each side ; some of these are near three feet long, and an inch 

 and a half broad, growing narrower towards their points, as well as gradually decreas- 

 ing in length towards the extremities of the branches. As there are many thousand 

 ieayes upon one tree, every branch bearing many scores of them, and every leaf being 



set 



