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SAM YD A 3. Foliis ova t is vi Ho/is } Jioribus confertis, fafciculis fparf 



Samyda. L. Sp. PI 

 Frutex baccifera folio 



'teg 



&c 



SIo. Cat. 173 



The hairy Samyda, or Cloven-berry Bufh 



Thefe fpecies of the Samyd 



freq 



7 



and grow commonly 



the low lands ; they 



of the (hrubby kind, tho' neither of the two laft forts 



ever 



Ics above four or five feet in height ; but the firft fh 



the height of feven 



ght. The pigeons are faid to feed much up 



fomet 



to 



d the pulp of the berries of the laft fort, when in feafon 



Dn the feeds, 

 d the bitterifh tafte of 



both has probably given rife to the 



but I am apt to think that that fl 



fo pecu 



the wild pig 



which is always in feafon about the fame time, and 

 which they are well known to feed 



proceeds rather from the fruit of the Xylop 



greeable wholfome bitter 



The flrft fp 



laft always hai 



has no more than eight filaments in each flower; but the twb» 

 e or ten, with as many villofe rudiments. 



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TRICHOGAMILA 1. Fruticofa, erect a, indivifa 5 folii s orbicularis alterms.- 



The fimple erecH Trkhogatnila* 



Periantium Dupl 



dipbyllum, parvum, deciduum 



mono- 



phyllum cyathifo 

 tern fe 51 



in quinque partes ovatas ad medieta 



Corolla Pentapetala t vel monopetala ad bafim feci a ; laciniis oblong 



tredlo patentib 

 Stamina. Filamenta decern t 



- 



fubrotundce, 



tofa 



corolla brevi 



anthers© 



1 



Piftillum. Germen minimum in fundo calicis Jitum ; ftylus tomentofus Ion 



gitudine ft 



ftigma obtujiufculum 



Pericarpium. Drupa jpharica lignea tenuis, & 



unilocu 



laris 



Sem 



Nuclei bini bilobi oblong 



if at a y Juperficie fubinaquali 





mtnorque 



laxatus. & divinftus 



quorum alter ut plurimum abo 



alter 



vffigitur, nee dimidium loculamenti repU 



fundo drupm 



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This fhrubby plant grows clofe to the beach at Bull-bay, and feldom rifes above 



three or four feet from the 



three or fou 



The ftem is ftiff and Ample, and feldom exceeds 



diameter: the leaves are 



nd. fmooth, and 



the 



flowers fmall and whitifti 3 and the berries of the fize and appearance of g 

 but light and hollow. • 



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RUT A i. Foliis decompofitis, laciniis latiufculis, petalis fubvillo/ts. 

 Ruta foliis decompoftis. L, Sp. PI. &c. 



Ruta Off. 



Rue. 



This plant has been long introduced 



grow fo luxuriantly as many other European vegetables 



d cultivated in Jamaica; but does 



this climate 



It 



active, warm 



med 



with fubtile penetrating pa 



indeed (o neceflary 

 and much impregnated 



of a very volatile nature, and contains a g 



quantity of a more fixt refinous fubftance. It ftimulates the folids to a more vig 

 rous ofcillation, rarefies ^the juices, promotes both fweat and urine, provokes t 

 menfes. refolves 



obftrud 



It is recommended equally in peftilential fevers 



ftrengthens the vifcera, and attenuates the blood 



the j 



nd thofe arifing fro 



of 



found very ferviceable in moft hyfteric and fcoibutic cafes; and often 



ordered 



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