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1!. A Catalogue of fame Guinea-Plants, rvith 
their Native Names and Virtues, fent to 
James Petiver, Apothecary^ and FeUow of 
the Royal Society ; tpith his Remarks on them> 
Commmicated in a Letter to Dr. Hans Sloane, 
Secret, Reg. Soc. 
SIR, 
TH E Following Plants, with their Native Names 
and Fertues^ I fometime fince received from my 
Worthy and Reverend Friend, Mr. John Smyth, whilft 
he was Minifler to the Ro^^al African Company in the 
Englifh Faiiory at Caho Corjo, vulgarly called Cape Coafi, 
in Guinea, 
It were, Sir, needleft to tell you the many Advanta- 
ges that would accrue to the Art or Myftery of Phyficfc, 
if the Vertues of all Simples were more nicely inquired 
into, or better known : I fhall therefore wave it here, 
and only prefent you with an African Materia Medica^ 
whole innocent Pradlice confifts of no more Art than 
Compofition, as you may fee by the following Me- 
thodf viz, 
I. Jclowa, fo called by the Natives in Guinea^ dried 
and rub'd on all the Body is good for the Crocoes (or 
Itch.) Mr. John Smyth, 
Colutea Scorpioides Guineenfis Tragacantha Foliis^ nohis. 
Its Leaves very much reftmbling thofe of tragacantha^ 
are fet^by Pairs, to the Number of Twelve or Sixteen, 
and fometimes Twenty, each at a very fmall Diftance^, 
viz, about an Eighth of an Inch. The ?oh are long, 
H h h h h fmooth 
