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very expenfive medicine, being often retailed at half a guinea a pound, 

 the Jamaica bark would form a good fubftitutc, and be found equally 

 effeftual as the other in the intcrmittents, moft prevalent in that 

 climate. 



After the great fire, which dcftroyed Port Royal in ijo^, Jefuit's 

 bark became fb fcarce in Jamaica, that few practitioners could procure 

 any ; upon which they had refource to the galimeta bark, and admi- 

 niftered it with good fuccefs, but were obliged to encreafe the dx>fe 

 to a much larger quantity. Not long after they found out another 

 bark, which anfwered every purpofe of the Jefuit's ; this was the 



^2, Locus, or Lotus-tree. — L.oii arl)orls folio angnjliore, rubro jlore, 

 fruElu potyfpcrmo, umb'tlicato. Sloane, Cat. 162. Slu'? Achras i^. of 

 Browne, p. 201. Beef- wood? 



It has a very beautiful reddiih flower, the fruit round, and about 

 the fize of the American clammy-cherry, or malphigla', of a yellowifh 

 colour, and agreeable tafte ; and contains a flone, or feed. The bark, 

 taken from the limbs and fmaller branches. Is of the fame complexion, 

 in all refpefts, as the Peruvian quill bark (which iseftecmed the beft) 

 and cures intermittent fevers equally as well, as has been often expe- 

 rienced. There is another fpecies, the flowers of which are more yel- 

 low, and the fruit much fmaller, but of the fame nature. 



54.- Black -OLIVE, or Bark-tree — Buceras. 



This tree Is a native of the lovv^er fwampy lands, and grows to a 

 confiderable fize. It is the fame as the French oak of Antigua. The 

 bark, mixed with that of the mangrove tree, is much efteemed for 

 tanning leather j and an excellent llyptic water may be made from it. 

 The w^ood of the tree is a very fine timber. 



55. Button-tree, or Button-wood — Conocarpm 2dus Br. p. 

 159. Alnifru5lu laiirifoHa arbor, SI. Cat. 135. 



This tree grows luxuriantly in all low fandy b.iys and marflies 

 round the Illand, and may be propagated by flips or cuttings ; the bark 

 tans leatlier well; the fruit Is drying, binding, and healing. 



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