WO&- HOllTUS J A Id A I C E N SIS. 279 



an 1 :> Pel ! and made i . ;ath ships, as the worms av >\ ! this wood. 



'. T !;i^ .,i.i. |, r-ts of Jamaica, growing best in a free soil and 



low warm inland woods. It, 



ze when n Tally lo - pan as a good 



i J, but when its growth is not luxuriant, it is only fit for cattle yokes, and 

 small conveniences as require a tough yielding wood. Tbejuiceandl 

 d -i- b 3ai I to be a'i antidote again t t ious juice of the 



chioneel : the} titter, and rvetopr or blisters foi 



, and thereby protract v of that canst. . until a part of its viru- 



i off, or other as>i >tance can be obtained ; but emulsions and oily medicines 

 will be) always found to answer much b it 



See Fhk .a Oak. 



:ktle Berry ?ee Jamaica BilbebhY. 



WILD-CANE OR REED. ARUNDO. 



Cl. 3, or. 2 Triandria digynia. NaT. or. Gramin.ee. 



Ge*. char. fe Bamboo, p. 43. Hie folio i nly considered as varieties 



of the fiambt ?. 



TABACAHIA. 



ecta major, caudice bipolicaris diametri, spica spaliosa. Browne, 

 p. 138, A. .. 

 The larger Wi -cane is very common in the cooler swampy bori 



among the mountains and rises frequently to the height of twelve or fourteen feet It 

 is jointed like other reeds, about an inch and a half in diameter near the bottom, and to- 

 pers gradually to the top ; the outward coat i= hard and smooth, and the body firm an i 

 filled with a-sort of fibrous whole stalk is strong and elastic, and generally 



>, for which they are well ad , I nave seen them yet strong and per- 

 fect in boo t an hundred years. Moisture is observed to won. 

 They are also u sed for baskets, when split, and the inner rind taken away. Browne. 



ndomaximo folio dentgto. Sloane, v. l, p. 109. E recta major 



fiuziatilis, culmo excavate pol tarn darnel ri. Browne, p. 138, 



. -'. 



This is pretty much like the former and rises fifteen feet high, when its stem is as 

 thick as the human arm ; it is jointed, hollow, and hard ; having at the joints lanceolate 

 dark green leaves, which are prickly rough on the margin r rem someof the joi its spring 

 branches having similar leaves ; and from the top issue many leaves together, from 

 amony wn.fh comes out the panicle. It is used for the same purposes as the other, 

 and vac leuuer tops of both are cured as a pickle. 



I'.rerta minor, panuula laxa spalte-a : spitiliis dislichis lanuginosis. 

 biouiii, o. i3, A. 2, 



Browne 



