PLANTS. 79 



quaqua, a barbarous name. The Chiococca Racemofa^ Linn. Suppl. 

 p. 145, a leffer fpecies, is a milky plant, fee tab, 19, the juice of 

 ^vhich is ufed by the Indians for healing their wounds. The 

 larger bears an oval fruit full of feed, tab. 43. 



Le Rocou, or Atchiote^ is a flirub with a fmall pointed fruit 

 covered with briftles, containing numbers of feeds, which give a 

 beautiful red dye. • . 



The Ignatia amara, Linn. Suppl. p. 149, which produces the 

 beans of St. Ignatius^ of fuperftitious ufe, grows in thefe 

 iflands. 



The Cocoa tree, tab. 61. 62. T'beobroma cacao. I imagine that Cocoa Tree. 

 Linnaeus muft have been a great admirer of chocolate, as he 

 names the tree which produces it, Tbeobroma, or the food of the 

 Gods. This tree is a native of the AntilkSy and hotter parts of 

 South America, and has been introduced into thefe iflands by the 

 Spaniards, from the great fondnefs that nation has for its pro- 

 duce ; otherwife they would not have given themfelves any 

 trouble about a lefs favored tree. 



The celebrated breadfruit *, the Soccus Lanofus, graiwfus, and Bread fruit. 

 Jylvejiris of Rumphius, v. p. no. 12. 14. tab. 32. 33. 34. Artocar- 

 pus Incifa, G. Forjler, Florul. inf. aitjlr. N° 332. Plant. Efc. N' i. 

 J. R. Forjleris Genera, 51. tab. 51. 51. a. and Mr. John Ellis, in his 

 monograph on this tree, is frequent in thefe iflands. It begins to 

 appear on the eaftern parts of Sumatra, where it is named by the 

 Malayes, Soccum Capas, again in Princes ifland, about Bantam, 

 and in Malega, and finally in all the iflands to the eaft, and from 

 thence to Qtaheite, and many others in the South Sea. 



Dampier, i. 296, firft difcovered it in Guam, onQ of the La-* 



* Outlines of the Globe, i. p. 237. E. 



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