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Lobes in other Kernels) but of thofe parts alfo, which in 
time become the Trunk and Root of the Tree. 
Thefe Nuts work ftrongly both by Vomit and Stool 5 
(a) four or five of them a great Dofe. Being eaten to Red, S£ 
or injected in Clyfters, (b) which is the fafeft way of ufing (b) 'mm 
them, they are a prefent Remedy in the CholicL One des * 
thing, very obfervable, is mention d by Mr. Boyle 3 (c) and (?) 1,1 Ms. 
fince, alfo by Mr. Ligon : (d) and that is, That the Ca- (?° gi ° 0 f e 
thartick. Power of the Nut, although fo great, yet lies only Forms. 
or chiefly in that very thin Filme above-faid, by me affirmed Barb*p!<sC 
to be the Kernel: for this being taken out, the reft may be 
eaten, as any other Nut. 
A fmall Indian Nut, about an inch long, and about 
half an inch over 3 with a pretty hard Rind , and of a 
fhining black. Excepting the colour, very like to that de- 
fcribed and figur d in Bauhinw, with the Name of Nucula 
Exotica Piftacij fpecie. 
The ANGOLA NUT. About* of an inch long, and 
as broad, on one fide Convex 3 on the oppofite, flat 3 and 
of a tawny colour. The Shell very hard. The Kernel thin 
and leafy, and loged within a thick white Cover, as in the 
Barbado Nut. 
They purge upward and downward : one of them will 
give about a dozen Stools. 
The Purging-CHESNUT. Caftanea purgatrix. Well 
defcribed and figur d in Calceolarias Mufaum. (e) The CO Se& 5. 
Figure mBauhinut (who defcribes (/) it by the Name of (/) r qm . Im 
Frutlus Indicus decujfattd) not fo good. 'Tis a blackifli lib. 3. c. zxtf. 
Fruit, about an inch and Hong, almoft fquare, and pretty 
flat. But that which is moft obfervable, is the double Sinus 
which compaffeth it both by the length and breadth, as if 
it had been girded acrofs with a firing. And, as it were, a 
Crefcent on that fide, by which it grows to the Shell. 
A FRUIT in figure like a Cbefnut-, but 'tis much lefs, 
at leaft, than the common fort. The outward fhell of a 
dusky colour, and thin, yet almoft as hard as a Pebble 3 
or like that of the Seed of Gromwell. Under this lies another 
of the ufual hardnefs of a Fruit Stone. Within which is 
included a whitifh Kernel, of a pleafant taft, yet producing a 
roughnefs in the Throat. 
The 
