316 HORTUS JAMAICENSIS. 



fiom its other end and displays the leaves. The tree is often seventy feet high. The 

 flowers are frequently five segments, and the stamens are connected towards the base, 

 the outer ones the largest, decreasing to the inner edye. The branches grow very up- 

 right and are few in number ; the leaves are also few, agreeable to an old observation 

 that the larger the leaves the fewer they are ; and no tree has larger or fewer leaves 

 than this." 



PagelX. After line three insert " The Andromeda Jamaicensis is a most elegant 

 shrub, when in (lower, it grows chiefly in barren gravelly soil, and sometimes rises to 

 the height of sixteen or twenty feet." 



Page 24. After the article Antidotf. Cocoon, insert <: The late mr. S. Felsted, 

 who paid much attention to the virtues of plants, recommended the fo lowing mode of 

 using these kernels for a pain in the stomach : Grate one or two kernels, after clear- 

 ing them from the shell and skin which immediately covers them : Infuse this in about 

 half a pint of boiling water, and, when nearly coot, strain off the oction, adding a 

 table spoonful of old rum or brandy. This quantity is to be taken warm at one or two 

 draughts The oil of the cocoon, extracted in the same way as from the common oil 

 nut, by boiling the pounded kernel, hardens like beel fat when cold. This has been 

 used with success in the gout, by embrocating the aii'ected part ; it is also good for other 

 aches and pains." 



Page 26 \fter Artmma TrNT-H.n, add "The corolla Ts rotated, thrice the length 

 of the perianth, bardlv anv tube, the limb divided almost down to r. : base into five 

 equal, ovate, patent, reflected, segments. The flower is beautifuK The berry is one- 

 celled moist and smooth ; it has the calvx fixed to its base, and the style on its apex, 

 containing a globose hard seed, in a reddish sweet pulp. It blooms early." 



Page 32. After the article Arrow-Root, insert "An eminent physician in St. 

 Domingo cured the dropsy, in obstinate cases. by nixing small doses of James's powders 

 in arrow-root gruel, and making the patient drink >! lily a decoction of chaw-stick. The 

 arrow-root, given in decoction or powder, except that it wants the purgative quality, 

 is nearly as efficacious in fevers as James's powders, and. in pleurisies, as snake- 

 root, and has been prescribed with success in fluxes. \ gentleman who had a 

 number >f rabbirs, lost the greater part of them by a mortality with which they were 

 attacked in a severe wet winter'; after trying different experiments, without effect, be 

 gave them daily, a parcel of the roots of the maraiHa, which they at:* greedily, and the 

 mortality ceased Hogs arc voraciously of this root." 



Page :'.?. After the article AvOCADO-Pear, insert, " A fine oil is obtained by 

 bruising Avocado Pears and boiling them, which has been found a good lamp oil. 

 This tree is said to grow well in Old-Spain." 



Pace 51.- Line six from bottom, after de peradix, insert. "The roots are said to 

 dye a scarlet-colour. There is a variety of the Barbadoes Pride, the flowers of which 

 are entirely yellow." 



Page 57. After the article Cl-'srs StCYOIDES, insert, ' ; This ;-, known by the name 

 of Wjld Yat\i, it lias a biting pungent taste, like that of arum, but dwells not so long 

 upon the tongue. The leaves .bruised in water will make it lather like soap. A P.o- 

 binson says he observed another species which he distinguishes thus, " Irsiola scan- 



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