78 The Ufeful Family Herbal, 
The CHINA-ROOT PLANT. — 
SMILAXK CUJUS RADIX CHINA FT 
OFFICIORUM. | 
A Nailing Plant frequent in the Zaf- Indies. ee | 
grows to ten or twelve Feet in Length, but ~ 
the Stalles are weak, and unable to ftand erect; | 
they are ridged, of a brown Colour, and fet with | 
hooked yellow Prickles. The Leaves are ob 7 
long ae broad, largeft at the Stalk, and blunt 
at the Points, of a fhining green Colour, and glofiy 
- Surface; the Flowers are fmall and yellowiths 
the Fruit is a round yellowith Berry. The Root | 
is large, irregular, and knotty; brown on the 
Qutfide, and reddifh within. This is the Pat 
ufed, they fend it over to‘our Druggifts: It 8 
: aSweetener of the Blood, and is ufed in Diet-drinks 
for the Venereal Difeate, and the Scurvy. [ts 
alfo faid to be very good againft the Gout, taken 
for a long Time together. a 
_ There is another kind of this Root brougl 
1 America, paler on the Outfide, and much 
aE es Colour with the other within, fome 
— — pofed it of more Virtue than the other, 
t fuppofe it inferior, perhaps neither 
i. 
Places for the > Pru Peas ‘The Plant 
weak, and of a pale Green. "The Leaves ave We 
___ thofe of the Pea, biit each little Leaf is narroweh 
and of a paler Green, and Seite the 
"he Flowers are finall and white and refebl 
