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Jasmin and candle-wood. 



THe ftirubs called by fome Jafmin 9 and Candle-wood, may 

 be numbred among thofe that are confiderable in thefe 

 Iflands: The former bears a fmall white flower which per- 

 fumes all about it with its fweet (cent 5 and thence it had the 

 name : The other cafts forth fo pleafant and fweet a fcent when 

 its wood is burnt dry, and does fo eafily take fire, and gives fo 

 clear a flame, by reafon of a certain Aromatick Gum lying 

 within it, that it is with reafon fought after by the Inhabitants 

 for their firing, and to ferve them for a Candle or Torch in the 

 night time. 



CHAP. X. 



Of the Plants, Herbs and Roots growing in 

 the Caribbies. 



HAving in the former Chapters reprefented the Trees and 

 Shrubs wherewith thefe Iflands are richly furniflied 5 

 we come now to the Defcription of (everal rare 

 Plants, Herbs and Roots, whereby they are alfo abundantly 

 fupply'd. 



PYMAN. 



THe Plant called by the French and others Vyman, or Ame* 

 rican Pepper, is the fame which the natural Inhabitants 

 of the Country call Axi, or Carive 3 it grows clofe like a little 

 Briar without any prickles : the ftemof it is covered with an 

 Afti-colour'd rind, and bears feveral little boughs loaden wirh 

 an infinite multitude of leaves, which are pretty long, full of 

 jags, and of a grafs-green colour : Of thefe there are three 

 kinds, differing only in the figure of the hufk or cod, or the 

 fruit they bear. One bears only a little red button, fomewhat 

 long like a Clove, within which there are very fmall feeds, 

 much hotter then the Spices brought from the Levant , and in a 

 manner cauftick, which eafily communicates that picquant qua- 

 lity to all things wherein it is us'd. |> 



The fecond kind hath a much larger and longer Cod, which 

 when ripe is of a perfed Vermilion colour, and being us'd in 

 Sauces 9 it makes them yellow, as Saffron would do. 



The third hath yet a larger Cod then the precedent, which 

 is thick enough, red as any Coral, and not fmooth in all parts : 



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