1*8 HORTUS JAMA! C EN SIS. spurge. -. 



saith be, when it hath reached the very heart, which it corroborates and sets a beating, 

 when just leaving off its office of pulsation, and causes the blood to circulate again, and 

 that by only giving a pugi! of the dried herb in a proper vehicle, or by giving the juice of 

 the green herb ; also, the herb decocted, or infused in wine, doth the same. The green 

 ljerb, bruised and applied as a poultice, to the part bit or stung by any serpent or ve- 

 nomous creature, it immediately takes away the pain, and draws out the venom, pre r 

 venting it spreading ad over the body of fluids: From experience, saitii Piso, one 

 drop of the juice of tins plant, dropped upon a serpent,, immediately kilts it ; and for 

 that reason, there is >;.o prudent person, that goes in the woods'of Brasil, will go with- 

 out some of this herb. A bath made of the whole plant, with Cotton -tree bark, takes 

 away carbuncles and phlegmons It is also experienced to be excellent in ail venereal 

 cases, as also a spec Sq remedy in the belly-ache, as you may see by dr. Tra >ham's ac- 

 count of it, in his State of Health of,Jamaica ; where he says, " As x'or a specific for the 

 dry belly-ache, take an Indian one (for the Indians .have many such), whi li my worthy 

 friend and sagacious, dr. Lawford, of the island of Earbadoes, cornmuni ed to his ex- 

 cellency lord Vaughan, by whose favour, for the benefit of the affli I," saitii dr. 

 Trapham, "nt wa's cammunicated.to me : The-said dr. Lawford affirifn , that he had 

 had above one hundred trials of this plant, of which, saith. lie, I give a drachm of it 

 powdered, in any convenient liquor, and repeat-it, once in three or four hours, till the 

 usual symptoms of the disease abate: sometimes, I give it made into a syrup, of 

 which I give one ounce to three ; also, in decoctions and clysters. It is abo, said the 

 same doctor, an antidote against poison, and a great diaphoretic, expelling all malig- 

 nancies in fevers." Trapham saith, the E glisb in Barbadoes called it snake- need ; 

 "and," saith he, " after the symptoms i belly-ache are removed by this-specific 

 ; it, I woull have them app ister of the hog-gum to the weak limbs, nsi:i^ 

 w ii!) frictions, an 1 : i the plaister every twenty -four hours, which restores the 

 use of the limbs," &c. Barham, ;>. l; . 



'IFOUA. irvs^op-i.r.AViD. 



iHchotcma erecta tenuis, Jbliie linearibiis, Jloribus quasi umbellatis 

 ter - . Browne, p. 23 1, E. 4. 



Leaves sub-crenate .linear, flowers. fascicled terminating, stein.upright. 



6. CHAMESYCE. CRF.NATFD. 



Minima sup inn rufescens, foliolis subrotundis nitidis oppositis, ramulis 

 Jioriferisfotiolatis ad alas alternas. Browne, p. 236, E. 8. 



Leaves crenulate, roundis'h, smooth, iiowers-solitary axillary, stems procumbent. 

 Stems herbaceous, from two to four inches long, round, purplish ; branches dicho- 

 tomous, short, thos : whi were procumbent ; leaves pctioled, opposite, smaii, 



veuied, doited, pi pi jreen, glaucous underi .nh; dowers very minute, crowded, 

 subsessile; teeth of the calyx white ciliated ; petals between these ak> id red ; filaments 

 two or three (not more) very minute ; anthers bl u k, i rm bent down ; styles biood- 

 red ; seeds roundish, angular, black. Swartz. This is very like the second species, and 

 common in all the unfrequented streets and gardens about Kingston ; but the leaves are 

 .Yhole, and the flowers seem differently disposed. Rfowttes 



7. GRAMUJEA. CRASS. 



T^ichrtomn.f'.iis ovatis xcrtkiiliter ternatis,fasciadisJlorum sparsist 

 Browne, p. 235, E. J. 



L-oave" . 



