194 The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
in damp Places. They get it off the Water Pipes — 
at the new River Head at J/ington, to fupply Co- 
vent-Garden Market. a 
The St. Ienarrus’s BEAN. 
TABA SANCTI IGNATII 
AA Plant common in the Weft-Indies, and very ill : 
“ called a Bean, being truly a Gourd. The 
Name Bean was given to the Seeds of this Plant, 
before it was known how they were produced, 
nd fome have continued it to the Plant. It 
elena great Height, when there is.a Tree to 
upport it, for it cannot fupport itfelf. It hasa 
Stalk as thick as a Man’s Arm, angulated, light, 
and not firm. The Leaves are very large, ob- - 
long, and undivided, and they have the Ribs ve- — 
ry high upon them: They are broad at the Bale, — 
and grow narrower to the Point, and are of a 
deep’Green Colour. The Flowers are very large, 
and of a deep blood Red; at a Diftance, they 
have the Afpect of a red Rofe. The ‘Fruit is 
Tange, and romndith ; “it has a woody Shell, and 
over that a thin Skin, bright and fhining- 
Within there are Twenty or Thirty Seeds; they — 
are of the Bignefs of a {mall Nutmeg, when we 
fee them: They are roundish, and very rough up- — 
on the Surface: Each is of a woody Subftance, and 
“when tafted, is of the Flavour of Citron Seeds, — 
but extremely bitter and naufeous. The Colour 
is of all Grey or brownifh. ui 
_ Thefe Seeds are what we ufe in Medicine,” 
all'the St. Zgnatius's Bean. It is a Medicine 
to be given with gi eat Caution, but it has many 
Virtues: Bie nibs liasos Set Be cade ke ies, when 
ill Hands, are naturally the moft dangerous; t! 
Powder given into a fmall Dofe, occafion Vomit~ 
ing and Purging, and often, if the Conft ‘ 
