The name in Jamaica for a prickly climbing shrub, Pisonia aculeata.
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. p. liv. In a Clap, they grind the Roots of Fingrigo and Lime-tree, between two Stones, and stir them into Lime-Juice till it be pretty thick, and so make the Patient take it evening and morning for some time.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica, 252. Fingrigo, or Thorny Mimosa. This prickly shrub is frequent in most of our sugar colonies, especially in Antigua; where the leaves are frequently used, mixed with corn, for their riding-horses.
