The Natural Hiftory 



92. Sugar-wood. Is yellow ; of the Planks they 

 Sugar Chefis : the Tree is tall, and yields a 

 brown fcentlefs Balfam ; with which the Natives by 

 anointing, cures the Worms in their Feet, a Difeafe 

 frequent amongft them. 



CHAP. VIII. 

 Of Shrub s. 



1. FIE Thorny Globe Acacia. Grows 8 or "9 

 A Foot high \ the Stem full of fmall crooked 

 Spines, the Leaves grow in Pairs, very like Solo- 

 mon's Seal y with 2 fmall Thorns between each Pair : 

 its Flowers pale yellow, and globular, compofed 

 of many fmall Threads ; the Pod a Foot or 1 5 In- 

 ches long, befet with fmall Prickles. 



2. The Great Aloes. Bears a greeniflh yellow 

 Flower, made of 5 Star-faftiioned Pet alee or Flow- 

 er Leaves \ they make good Cloath of the Leaves 

 of this Plant ; and thefe or its Roots thrown into 

 Ponds, fuddles the Fifh s fo that you may take 

 them with your Hand. 



3. -M$etoe Aloes. This grows from the Boughs 

 and rotten Trunks of Trees ; the Leaves are very 

 like Aloes. 



4. Arnotto. Is a Shrub, with large car-dated 

 Leaves 5 with 5 leaved Rofe-like Blufh-coldur'd 

 Flowers growing in Clutters : they make a faffron 

 coloured Indico of the Seed, calPd Arnotto ; with 

 which they dye raw Silk. 



5. The Burr. Has broad Leaves ferrated and 

 pointed ; its Burs grow in Rundles, 12 or more to- 

 gether : they are very troublefome in travelling both 

 to Man and Beaft, (ticking to their Hair, &c. 



6. Button* 



