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Hort PERUVIANUS Medicinala: 
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The SOUTH-SEA Herbal. 
King of France's Herbalifts. 
g the Names, Figures, Ufe, &c. of divers Medici. 
nal Plants, lately difcovered by Pere L, Feuille, one of the 
To which are ADDED, 
The Figures, &c. of divers American Gum-Trees, Dying Woods, Drugs, as the Jefuits Bark- 
Tree and others, much defired and very neceffary to be known by all fuch as now Traffick 
to the South-Seas, or refide in thofe Parts. 
TAB. I. Medicinal PERU Plants. 
1G. 1. Peru Chilca or Long Fleabane. 
Conyza frut. fol. anguft, nervofis L. Feuillée p.. 750. 
Conyza Afric. humilis, fol. anguftioribus nervofis,Flo~ 
ribus umbellatis In/t. Rei Herb. 455. 
It has a pleafant Smell, the Indians make a Tea of 
it, to ftrengthen their Stomach. a 
2. Manga Paki or Round Peru Fleabane 
Conyza fol. fubrotundo utringue acuto F. p. 749. 
his is a fweetning Herb, Aftringent and Vulnerary, the 
Natives drink a Tea of it in Cholick Pains, Diffenteries, and 
other Fluxes. Grows 4 Feet high with blewifh Flowers, in 
the Valleys about Lima the Capital City of Peru. 
3+ Paica Jullo. Bidens Mercurialis folio, fl. radiato F.744. 
Its Flower-rim white. Grows about Lima and Callao. 
4. Cuiez-bane, Bidens fol. trinervilanceato, fl. fingulari & 
radiato F. 766. : 
The Flower-rim compofed of 6 yellow Petals, Grows in the 
ftoney Valleys of Lima. It’s a purging Plant, but rarely ufed 
by reafon of its Violence, they alfo think it a Poifon, becaufe 
it kills a Houle Animal call’d Cuiez in Peru and Chili. 
5. White, Mugwort Bident. Bidens Arthemifia folio, fl. albo 
radiato F, 745: 
Found in the Plains about Lima. 
6. Heart-leaved Maracoc. 
Granadilla pomiiera, Tilia folio F.720. 
Its Rays crimfon with a white Circle in the middle. Grows 
in the Vallies about Lima in divers Places, it’s alfo nurfed 
in their Gardens, « 
7. Trifid, {potted Maracoc. 
Granadilla fol, tricupidi, obtufo & oculato F. 718. 
Obferved ina Garden at Malambo, in the Suburbs North 
of Lima, 
‘8. Caigua or ftriped Melon. 
Momordica fructu ftriato levi. 
The Natives eat its Fruit in their Broths which much re- 
frefhes and cools them, the Heats there being very exceflive. 
A. and B, aie 2 fmall Beetles which feed on the Leaves of 
this Plant. 
9. Lima Pumkin, 
Melongena Laurifolia, fr. turbinato variegato F. 735. 
Its Flower white with a purple Star, the Fruit much eaten at 
Lima but apt to caufe Fevers, which are there difficult to 
eure. C. its Fy. Slit. : 
10. Purple Bladder Nightfhade 
Alkakengi amplo fore violaceo F 724. : 
They boil 3 or 4 of thefe Berries in White-wine or Water, 
and drink it with wonderful Succefs in Stoppage of Urine 
or Gravel. 
11, Ancoacha or yellow Mallow, 
Malva lutea, calyce fimplici, obtufo Carpini folio, pediculis 
florum prelongis F.750. 
Its Flower yellow with a purple fringed bottom and corda~ 
ted Petals. A Tea of this is wonderful in Ails of the Stomach, 
‘the Indians pick and make a Poultifs of it, which they apply 
to ripen Swellings and ufe it as an Univerfal Remedy. Grows 
in moift Ground and by River-fides North of Lima. 
12. Lima Tea. 
Capraria Peruviana Agerati foliis, abfque pediculis F. 764. 
Pee Feuillée fays, the Vivines of this Herb (which aie the 
fame with the China Tea) was not known in Perw till 1709. 
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N.B. This feems to be the fame or little different from 
Dr. Sloan’s Weft-India Tea, which he has defcribed in his 
Nat. Hift. of Jamaica p.209. pl. 25. who fays it’s call’d in 
Curaffow Cabritta and Capraria becaufe the Goats there feed on 
it, which laft Name our Author here calls it by. J Petiver. 
TAB. I. Medicinal Peru and Chili Plants, 
Ima Tobacco. 
Nicotiana minor, fol. cordiformi, tubo Floris pre- 
ich ‘oF. 717. Its Flower of a greenifh yellow. Grows in 
alleys. 
Batays leaved Bignon. 
Bignonia fi, luteo, foliis radiatis, & elegantiffimé diffetis F.731. 
Found in a very dry Place at the Foot of high Mountains about 
rica. 
3- Broad Clove-ftrife. 
Onagra Laurifolia fl. amplo pentapetalo, F. 716, 
* Small Female Clove-ftrife. 
magra minor, fi. luteo pentapetalo, 
The Flower yellow and L. like the laft, but both fmaller. 
The Indians highly efteem thefe z Shrubs, making a Poultife 
of the L. pickt, which fweetens, mollifies and diffolves, fit 
therefore to diffipate inveterate Zumors and Buboes which are 
very common in thofe Parts. Thele grow by River fides, 
4. Log-rooted yellow Wood-forrel. 
Oxys luteo flore, rad. craffiffima F.734. 
Grows on the Mountains of Peu, &c. 
5. Spotted Mountain Pelegrina. 
Le Ilis fl. purp ibus maculatis F. 714. 
The Beauty of this Flower is, in having 3 of its Petals {pot- 
ted, the reft plain, and therefore the Spaniards call’d it Pele- 
gvina or Curious. 
6. Ylo Hounds-tongue. 
Cynogloffum fol. nervofis acutiffimis F. 765. 
Grows in the Valley of Ilo near Avica about a Foot. and an 
half high, with blewi/b Flowers. 
7. Malla or Peru Crefs-Violet. 
Cardamindum quinquifido folio F.7 56. 
This elegant Plant the Spaniards call Paxarito becaufe its 
Flower is compofed of 2 particular large yellow L. extended 
like the Wings of a Bird. Grows about Lima. 
- Lima Flower fence or Tara. 
Poinciana {pinofa Feuillée. 572. 
The Dyers ufe the Hufks of this Fruit to dye black, they 
foke fome of the Pods all Night in Watet, mix a little 
Allum with it, and boil it toa due Thicknefs, which makes 
a very fine Black and ftrong Ink. 
Medicinal Chili Plants. 
9. Dafie Ragwort or Nillque. 
Jacobea Leucanthemi vulg. folio F. 759. 
Its Flowers yellow. They drink a Tea of this after the cold: 
Fit, which abates the hot in intermitting Fevers. Grows on 
the ragged Sea Banks of Chili, &c. 
to. Chili Dutyoa or Floripondio. 
Stramonoides arboreum oblongo & integro folio, fiudu levi F761. 
Grows in Chili about a Yard high, with a white Flower fo 
very {weet, that a fingle Plant is enough to perfume a whole 
Gaden, They apply the L. to haften the Suppuration of Tu- 
mors which it does effettually. N.B. This Plant bears the 
Flower of a Stramonium or Thorn apple, but differs in its Fruit 
being {mooth, there is a fort of this in the Hort. AMalabaricus 
Vol. 2. Tab, 29. 
Fig. 1. 
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