Cap. XI. The Caribby-Iflands. 



Pharaohs Fig-tree } on which there may be feen at all times fruit 

 fully ripe, fruit ripening, and fruit newly knit. Orange-trees 

 have the fame advantage. 



T I ants ufefulin Pbyfzcl^ 



OF Plants ufeful in Phyfick there are many kinds in thefe 

 Iflands, whereof the vertues and temperament are not 

 yet well known, and fome others which are alfo to be had from 

 other places : Such as are Scolopendria^ and a kind of Aloes^ 

 and feveral forts of Maiden-hair. There are alfo fome, where- 

 of trial hath been made, and they have been endued with great 

 vertues , among which the moft efteem'd are the Stveet-Rujl^ 

 the Balijier, and the Dart-Herb. 



SWEET-RVSH. 



THe Sweet-Rujl) is like other Ruihes which grow neer 

 Ponds and Rivers, but it hath a round root about the 

 bignefs of a Small-nut, which cafts a fweet fcent like that of 

 the Flower-de-luce ^ and being dried in the (hade, and beaten to 

 powder, hath a miraculous vertueto help Women in Labour^ 

 if they take but a fmall dofe of it. 



BAL1SIEK. 



THe Balijier grows bigger and higher, according to the foil 

 it meets with, but it thrives beft in moift places : The 

 leaves of it arefo large that thzCaribbians, in cafe of neceffity, 

 cover their little Huts therewith. They are alfo apply'd to 

 abate andmollifie the inflammations of wounds, and to make 

 baths for fuch as have had their Nerves crufh 'd,or have contract- 

 ed any other weaknefs. The flower of it, which grows like a 

 Plume of Feathers, confuting of feveral yellow, or red cups, 

 are fucceeded by certain buttons, which are full of feeds as 

 big as Peafe, and fo fmooth and hard that Beads are made of 

 them. 



DAK T-H EKB, 



THe Dart-Herb is a fed kind of Herb, for" in the daytime 

 the leaves lye clofe together, and in the night they are 

 fpread abroad : its leaves, which are of a bright-green , are 

 about fix or feven inches long and three broad : the root or it 

 pounded, and applyed pnthe wound 5 takes away the venom of 

 poyfoned Darts. 



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