376 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. iiog-vveed, 



wnrds black, lianl, anJ brilile, like rcsiii. I mustt^aufcss'I do not T.now the tree itself, 

 but iia\c niudi! grciH use ot its .gum ; .and kno.w;liy experience, tluxt, iuwurdly taken, 

 it is an excellent tijing in ilie belly-ache <jr diolic : Take the juice, when new an. I 

 fresli gathered, two sjiooiil'uJj ; mix it with ub much water, sweetened with sugar ; 

 drink it, it wdl give ease immediately, tuid, in four or five hours, give four or five 

 stools ; it is also good to {;a:t in a clyster. Vvlieii it is old, it is niore of a binding and 

 strengthening quuhty. IVIade into pills, ur.d given after purging, it stops a gonarrha:a. 

 Take hog's-lard, four ounces; the same of hog-gum ; bees-wax, two ounces ; yellow 

 resin, one ounce ; round birtiiwort-root in powiler, two ounces ; mix, and make a 

 balsLim : This is an universal balsam to cleanse old ulcers ; it heals them and all green 

 wounds. A plaistcr of the iiog-gunx alone crises tlie gout, .audstrengthcns tiie part. 

 Bai-Ziam, p. 74. 



Br^jwiie notices another. tpecies of : this gcrius, a -native of Jamaica, whi-Ji he calls 

 the villous rkus, wjlh teirandrous flowers. Foliis piniialis o-jato~a:uininatis subtus 

 til'osis, J/uribus racfwoits tct)'anibis tcnninatricibus. Browne, p 186, t. 8, f. .2. 

 Cahx a small monophyllous perianth, five-parted; the corolla fonr-petaled, petals 

 lanceolate, reflected; tiie stamens four erect filaments, longer than the petals; anthers 

 cordate-sagittate ; the pistd had a roundish germ, gently depressed, no style, stigmas 

 two small roundish glands, sitting on the top of the germ. Dr. Browne did not see the 

 fruit. He foiuid the pUuit on tiie road that leads from New Greenwich to Liguanea, 

 rising from ten to twelve feet high, plentifully furnished witii branches towards the top ; 

 the fl.ovvers very numerous, blowing generiilly before the shooting of the leaves, or very 

 soon after. "Mr. Anthony Robinson also met with this jilant in fruit the latter end of 

 Julv, which lie has described as follows : " The fruit grew very thick clustering at the 

 eiids of the branches, four generally arising from thesiune point ; the3/ were of an ir- 

 regular, compressed, ^lobous form, three-tenths of an inch in diameter, placed on a 

 pedicel two-tenths of an inch in length, the. cutside all over marked thick with small 

 tubercles, in tlie same manner as a young orange or lemon, vvhich I conjecture were 

 small vessels, filled with a balsamic oil, for in taste they resembled balsam-capivi very 

 much. These capsules split open at die top, and each contained oiie.kidney-shaped, 

 black, shining, but somewhat rugged, seed; the leaves arje winged, and resemiile those 

 of our common elder in form, consisting of five or six pairs of lightly serrated leaves, 

 placed on a middle rib, terminated by an odd one ; tiiese were studded, and, when 

 held to the light, seemed to be perforated with a thousand holes, in the same manner 

 as St. John's wort, and for the same reason." 



Several exotic species of this genus have been at different times introduced. 



Hog-Plk.m Sec Spanish. PX.UM. 



HOG-WEED. BOERHAAVIA. 



Cl. I, OR. 1. Monandria moyiogynia. Nat. or. Aggrcgata. 



This was so named in honour of the famous Boerhaave, professor of botany, che 

 tnistry, and medicine, in the University of Leyden. 



Gen. ci!.\R. Calyx an oblong perianth, tubular and angular ; corolla one-petaled, 

 fceli-aiiaped, upright, bluntly five-cleft, platted, sealed ou tlie calyx; nectary 



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