8 The Ufeful Family Herbal, 
-Atores Woop. 
LIGNUM ALOES. 
x may be neceffary to mention this Wood, as 
is fometimes ufed in Medicine, althou 
are Not acquainted with the Tree which affords it. 
_ We are told that the Leaves are fmall, the Flow 
ers moderately Jarge, and the- Fruit as big as 
Pi d woolly ; and we read alfo that 
Tree, while frefh, will raife Blift 
ters o7 din, and even caufe Blindnefs : Bu 
= thele ic are very imperfect. - Bok ae 
We fee three kinds of the Wood in the Sao 
and they are difting afhed by three di 
= bac, common Lignum “Aloes, oes, and Cal: 
‘baure of thefe the Caishbar i is the fineft. mn 
moft refinous, the Calambour is almoft a mere 
Chip, the other is of a middle Value between them. 
They are all of the fame Virtue, but in different 
seas, soy are faid to bbe cordial and ftrength 
True -AMomMuM. 
-AMOMUM VERUM RACEMOSUM. 
Site is another of thofe Drugs we I 
"ceive from abroad, and ke not know. 
Plants which produce them ‘The Fruit ithe f, 
E which i is oie UR is” . 
