oval, bears a midling 5 leaved Flower, its Pods roundish, thin 
fhell’d, with a Filbert-kernel,’ which bruifed: {mel] like Peafe, 
Pifo.adds that the Fruit ripens in April which the Brafilians 
eat, Ly fucking the Juice and {pitting out the Skin ; the 
Monkeys alfo are very greedy of them. 
This Balm is yellower than Turpentine, and of a-different 
Smell and Tafte. It comforts the Stomach and /Bowels, {wee- 
tens the whole Mafs of Blood and is an adinirablee Vulnera- 
ry, provokes Urine powerfully and ftops' Fluxes of all kinds, 
iv’s fudorifick and cures moft Difeafes where Sweating ‘is proper 
and equal, if not excells all other Natural Balfains. It’s faid 
the Natives learnt the vulnermy Virtue of this Balm by obferving 
the ‘Hogs to repair to it»when wounded.: 3 
4: Caranna.. Flows fiom the Trunk of 
which grows plentifull 
a Tvee like'a Palm| 
i 
Fruit like our Cucumbers but of a dark giey, in which is a| 
., This Gum, fays Pomet} flows from the Cut Trunk ! 
and Branches of, a midling Tyee with iong»and narrow filvery | 
L..and red, Flowers; the Fruit’ of the Colour and Shape of | 
Olives, and therefore by. fome nanied: wild Olives.’ It’s of fin- | 
gular Ufe in all Wounds and Fra@ures in’ the Head and Scull. | 
7. New Balfam. In. Colour and Shape like Tolu, but ‘of ay 
lefs agreeable Smell; its boil’d from {mall red ‘clufter’d Fruit, 
whole L. are very large and broad.”) Grows in St. Domingo and 
the other Ifes. 29% 
8. Balfam. Peru or Natural. Balfam. This Pomet afferts, is 
made by boiling its Bak, Branches and Leaves in Water, | 
{cumming off the Fat which is this black. Balm... It’s ufed as’a 
great Pedoral, particularly’ in: Afima’s. 
~ 9. Sarcocol or Flefo-glue. Isa granulated Gum faid to flow 
froma little prickly Shrub growing in Arabia, Perfia, &c. It 
agglutinates Fle/b, Heals. {pongey: Wounds, and ftops Hemor- 
rhages, it’s alfo.a very. good  Ophthalmick, taking away Spots, 
Specks, 8c. hindring Defluxions into thofe Parts. ; 
to. Liquid Amber. Comes by Incifion from: the Bark’ of’a 
Jarge Tree with Joy Leaves: growing in Virginia and Mexico, 
‘ where it’s call’d cofolt.or Ocotal: At’s. very, fragrant, con- 
folides and mollifies thie Hardnefs.of: the Womb, is good in 
Sciatica, Rheumatifm and Weaknels of-the Nerves. ) 
"11, Tacamahac. "Flows trom the Bodies of large thick Trees 
Alderfgate-ftreet, London. : 
May 21. 171. " 
pours. It’s fo famou 
i 
Jt 
eo 
lly in New Spainand Madagafear 
The Lf 
like our Poplars,growing plentifu 
2 x qa - {mall and dented, the 
where they are’ call ‘arame, 
Fruit red of the Size of a large “Wut, witha Reach-like Stone, 
odoriferous and Refinofe. It’s faid to eafe all manner of Pains 
in the Head, Nerves, Foynts or Womb and very: good in Va-~ 
t is amongft ‘the Indians, that they ufe it 
in» all Pains whatever. ; ‘ 
12. Balfam Tolu. 
New Spain feated bet 
of ia igrateful fragrant Smell, a great Pedoral, particulafly, in’ 
Helyicks; Catarrhs and Defluxions. Outwardly it alfa eafes-old 
Aches and: Pains in the Head and foynts. 
Campechy, Logwood or Brafiletto. 
Bay of-Campechy it grows plentifully and thither our 
Go to cut it, it’s alfo found in other Parts of New . 
Spain as at Sanda Cruce where there are whole Forrefts of -it, 
Pomet and Lemeiy are both miftaken in making: this Tree'the 
ame with our Jamaica Pepper,’ or All Spice., which we much 
better know than the Logwood, whofe Flowers and Fruit we 
are as yet Strangers to. , : 
15. Nephritick Wood. By reafon it’s a Sovereign Remedy? 
for the Stone,Gravel,and Difficulty of Urine, it’s alfo good in Ob- 
Siru€ions of the Liver and. Spleen: Grows in New Spain and 
chiefly about Mexico. Hernandez fays it’s a large Shrub with 
little roundifh Leaves, its Flower yellow, long and little, grow- 
ing in Spikes. The Mexicans call this Tree Coatli and Tia- 
alz patli, 
16. Jefuits Bark or Quinguina, 
This Figure is coppied from Pomet, w 
Mountains near the City Loxa in the Province of Quito ia 
ere 5 its Size about that of a Cheny-tree; ‘the L. round and 
indented, its Flower reddifh,'with a Pod including an’ Alitiond= 
like Kernel, covered with a thin Skin.® Its Bark“is much’ beét-? 
ter known to us than either its Leaves,9 Flowers or Frizit. 
W.B. It is therefore highly to be with’d, that the Pyficiaris or 
other curious Peifons who corre{pond ‘to; ‘or tefide in thofe 
Parts where this Tyee or any of’ the aforegoing® grow, would: 
be pleafed to procure Branches of their Leaves with its Flowers. 
and Fruit on them, which Favour fhou’d be acknowledged and 
more accurate Figures given of each, if commiinicated to your 
t ie Tate 
ho fays it grows onthe 
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