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•mer, growing flicky in the Hands, yellowifh, or 
reddifh with a Caft of Purple, and when reduced to 
Powder of a fhining golden Colour. It has an aro- 
matick bitter Tafte, and a ftrong Smell, but not 
very ungrateful, being fomewhat aromatick, not 
much unlike Myrrh. 
It is drawn from a Plant named Aloe fiiccotrina , 
enguftifolia , Spinofa , flore purpureo , Breyn. Prodrom. 
2. Commelin. Hort. AmfteL rarior. 91. Aloe Indite 
orient alls ferrata , five Succotrina vera , floribus Phoe- 
niceis , Hort. Beaumont . Aloe Americana , Anance folio , 
floribus [nave -rub entibus , PM, Phytogr. tab. 240. 
4. The Leaves of this Plant pulled from the 
Root being gently preffed by the Hand, or an In- 
ftrument, the Juice drops from them into a VefTel 
fet under to receive it, and having flood all Night 
that the grofs Parts may fubfide, it is poured off 
into another Veffel, and placed in the Sun till it 
concretes and becomes dry , and then it acquires a 
yellowifh Colour. It comes to us in Skins from the 
Hand of Soccotora. 
The inferior Aloes or hepatick is more obfcure, 
lefs fhining, more denfe and dry, refembling the 
Colour of a Liver, of a flronger Smell, and more 
intenfe bitter Tafte. 
The Plant from which this Sort is obtained is 
called Aloe vulgaris , C. B. P. 286. This Plant grows 
both in the Eaft and Weft •, and its Juice is pre- 
pared not only in feveral Places in the Indies , as in 
Cambaia and Bengal , but alfo in many Parts of 
America , as in Mexico , New Spain, Brafile , and Bar- 
badoes , &c. The Leaves cut fmall and bruifed are 
put into an oblong Veffel, of the Form of a Cy- 
linder, where they continue for twenty five Days, 
during which a Froth rifes to the Top, which being 
ufelefs is thrown away. The upper Part of the 
Juice is then feparated from the Dregs, and by the 
Heat 
