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SOAP-BERRY-BUSH, or FIRE-BURN-LEAF; 
Lat. SAPINDUs, 
apa IS is a {candent ligneous jointed Vine, whofe Heart-like Leaves 
are thin, and fharp-pointed. 
Thefe are, in general, of about Four Inches long, Two and an half broad, 
and high-ribbed. 
Almoft every Leaf is fupported by a crooked Tendril, which takes hold 
of the neighbouring Trees or Shrubs. ~ 
The Leaves, when bruifed, and agitated in Water, will caufe as ftrong 
a Lather as an equal Quantity of Soap, 
The Juice is likewife very much efteemed to heal and cure Fire-burns, 
Scalds, or fuch-like Sores. 
The Bast ARD Locust, or For Est-TREE. 
‘ | HIS grows to be a large Tree, cloathed with a whitith Bark, red 
within. 
Its Leaves are of adark Green, about an Inch and an half long, fmooth, 
and very blunt-pointed. 
The Bark is ufed as an Aftringent. 
The VERVAIN; Lat. SHERARDIA SPICATA. 
ae HE Roots of this fhrubby Plant are very numerous, and white, 
- penetrating not deep into the Earth. 
The main Stalk, when full-grown, is as thick as one’s Finger, woody, 
and brittle; foon dividing into many leffer Branches. 
Thefe are jointed, putting forth, at every Joint, Duplicates of winged 
Leaves within one another; whofe Edges are regularly ferrated, and of a 
middle Size, ending very narrow towards the Stalks; the Stalks them- 
{elves terminating in long fealy Spikes. 
Round the Middle of thefe rife feveral {mall naked tubular monopeta= 
lous Flowers, of a fine blue Colour ; whofe Edges are divided into Five 
Segments, having likewife a whitifh Spot in the Middle. 
The Seeds, which are longifh, and {mall, are included in the feveral 
Lamine, or Foldings, of thefe Spikes. 
The Juice of this Plant is fo great a Deobftruent, that a large Spoonful 
taken inwardly, for Three or Four Mornings fucceflively, hath been 
more powerful to bring down the Catamenia, than either the Ufe of 
Chalybeats, or any other Method. 
This Plant grows in moft Parts of the Ifland. 
The MasTicH-TREE; Lat. CALABA. 
: i HIS often grows to a great Height. 
: The Colour of its Bark is brownih. The 
