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warm 



b 



xipharmic, and thought to refift the force of poifons very powerfully 



its chief effects feem to depend on its abfoibent and 

 warm particles in its compofitio 



having b 



and 



The root warned, pounded fine, and bleached, makes a fine powder and ftarch : 

 is been fometimes known to be ufed for food when other provisions were fcarce 



frequently adminifrercd in-infufi ns tQ the fick 



plant grows from a thick 



rlefliv root, and moots by a fimple foliated ilalk to the height oftwo or three feet 



and . rminates in a loofe and fomewhat branched flower-fp 



was called If 2d, 



Arrow- root, becaufe it 



by poifoncd arrows of the Ind 



thought to extract the poifon from the wounds inflicted 







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CA'NNA. 1. Capfutis verrucous Jpaiulis bifloris. 



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Canna lndica Rivini y &c. Slo. Cat. p. 12 r. 



of litis bifloris. X. Sp. PI. 



Cannacorus Latifol. vu/g. Tournf. & Thez. Zey. 53. Pag. 2. 

 Katu-tfalo IT. M.~P. 11. t. 43. & Meeru. Pif. 

 Tozcuitlapil. Hern. 282. 



pag. 212 





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This plant is common in moft parts of J 

 feet from the ground, and is furnimed with larg 

 top moots into a fimple flower-fpil 

 fucceeded by pretty larg 



fes commonly about four 



leaves 



the bottom 



the 



d is adorned with red bloflc 



which are 



d echinated 



containing large round feeds 



from the fize and form of which it derives its prefent appellation in thofe parts 



AMOMUM 1 . Minus /capo veflito, floribus fpicatis. 





Marantha L. Sp. PL 



Zinziber Sihe/ire minus, &c. , Slo. Cat. p. 6 1. & PI. 



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1. 105 



The leffer Amomum with a foliated ftalk. 







This plant is found wild every where in the woods of 'Jamaica ; it grows from a 

 flefhy root, and moots by a fimple foliated ftalk to the height of three or four feet, 

 and then terminates in a fimple rlower-fpike. As the botanic characters of this 

 plant have been but imperfectly defcribed before, I mall fet them down here at 



length. . 



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Periantium. Monopbyllum breve tubulattim, gcrmini incidens, ad limbum in tr'ia 



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fegmina obtuse feftum 



Corolla. Monopetala tubulata calice duplo \ongior y fauce par urn ampliato, ore in 



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tria fegmina equdlia obtuse feBo. 





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Nectarium, E fauce tubi emergit Nectarium ovatum latius; & e parte huic op- 



pofita, fur git Stamen nnicum brevifjimum y anther a oblongd bi- 



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& idamina. 



lobd & longitudinaliter canaliculatd or na turn. 



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Pimllum. Germen ovatum obtufum , flylus jimplex , jiigma obtufum y quod cum 



parte fuperiori ftyli in finu ant bora reconditur. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula fubrotunda obtuse trigona trilocularis trivalvis y fmgulis 



loculamentis binis vel quatuor feminibus refertis* 



The root of this plant bruifed and applied by way of poultice, is thought to be 



an admirable remedy in open cancers. 



Slo. &c. 





AMOMUM 2 . Scapo florifero parti ali aphyllo, fpicd longiori. 



Amomum Scapo nudo y fpicd oblongd obtusd. L. H. C. & Sp. PL 

 Paco-Ceroca Pifonis, page 213. i 





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