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Lobes in other Kernels) it of thofe parts alio, which in 
time become the Trunk and Root of the Tree. 
Thefe Nuts work ftrongly both by Vomit and Stool 3 
(a) four or five of them a great Dofe. Being eaten tolled, a r uh ' 
or injected in Clyilers, (b) which is the fafeft way of ufing (b) Monar- 
them, they are a prefent Remedy in the Cholick. One des - 
thing, very obfervable, is mention d by Mr. Boyle 5 (c) and C<0 fa his 
fince, alfo by Mr. Zigo?* iui^Q and that is, That the Ca~ ]} e 
thartick Power oi the AW, although fo great, yet lies only f™-. 
or chiefly in that very thin Filme above-faid, by me affirmed bI^p^C 
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 
lhining blacL Excepting the colour, very like to that de- 
fcribed and figured in Bauhinus, 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 pirgatrix. Well 
defcribed and figur d in Calceolarias Mufdeum. (e) The CO Se6h 5. 
Figure in Bauhinus (who defcribes (/) it by the Name of (/) Tom.r. 
Fruilws Indicus decujfatm) not fo good. Tis a blackiili Kb. 3. en*. 
Fruit, about an inch and * long, 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 Chefnut 3 but 'tis much lefs s 
at leaft, than the common fort. The outward Ihell 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 
xoughnefs in the Throat. 
The 
