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Arbor, or Éambo, has been fufficiendy treated of at page 142,,
o f this Volume.
Coc'ctnea is à beautiful ihrtib With fcarlet flowers, engraven
at page 169, of the Botanical Magazine, and in Burm. Zeyl. tab.
The flowers grow in rich rounded duffers, and bright as
a red-hot coal. It is therefore called by Rumpbius, Fiamma
fylvarum. It is frequent in Ceylon, where it inhabits watery
places. Peacocks are particularly fond o f the berries.
Indica, Rumpb. Amboin. iv. tab. 47, is another fpecious plant,,
called, from its brilliant flowers, by the fame name, Fiamma
fylvarum.
Tomentofa, Barm. Zeyl. 26, yields-a bark, a fubftitute to the
Indians for the betel leaf.
Lata, Burm. Zeyl. 76, tab. 30, yields flowers, ufed inffead of
faflron in dying.
‘Piirpetbum, Bldckwall, tab. 397, Gerard-, I ’urpeth is a name
given to the root by the old Arabian phyfidans ; it was much
in ufe among them, and the Indian, in medicine. It was a
ftrong cathartic, and applied in dropficàl, gouty, and rheumatic
cafes, to expel the tough ferbus humours from the diftant
parts ; it is not at prefent in our difpenfary,
Quamoclit, Rumpb. Amboin. v. 421- tab. 155, is a beautiful-
climbing plant, much ufed in India for making bowers.
Orienta/is, iii. tab. 55» % a tree that affords a beautiful yellow
wood.
Umbellata, iii'. tab. 118, is a common ufelèfs wood in the
watery places of all parts of India, with a fmall tuberous fruit-
The root is ufed for dying red.
Frótidofa,
Frondofa, iv, tab- 51, is aij elegant fbrub, callefi by the bfa- M ussoenda.
layes, the L eaf o f the Princefs, becaufe their ladies are fond of
the grateful odor of its white leaves,
I t takes thd generic name from its quality o f opening its M irab ilis ,
flowers at four in the evening, and doling them in the morning
till the fame hour returns, when they again expand in the
evening at the fame hour. Many people tranlplant them from
the [woods into their gardens, and ufe them as a dial or clock,
efpecially in cloudy weather*.
Jalapa, v. tab. 89, is a climbing plant; notwithftandi.ng its
trivial, its ufes are quite unknown. It is common both to India
and Peru. The famous Jalap comes from an American plant,
the Convolvulus Jalapa.
Infanum, v. tab. 85, This is the commoneft, but pooreft Soeanum,
food univerfally ufed in India. It has been long lince introduced
into Spain, where it is an univerfal ingredient in made-
dilhes, and called by the Spaniards, Berengcnas. The Arabians
fay, that Mahomet found this plant in Paradife, which makes
his. followers particularly fond of it. S. Indicum is another
fpecies, figured in Burm. 7¡eyl. tab. 10a.
Barbatum, Rumph. Amboin. 5 ,.tab. 88, and C.Frutefcens, fig. C apsicum.
1, 3, 4, of the fame table. Thefe Capfcums have a much more
hot tañe, and acrimony in the torrid zone, than even with u s ;
and are univerfally ufed in the dilhes o f ipse Indians, but the
excefs .always renders them wrinkled and chilly, and brings on
premature old age.
Nux Vomica, Rumph. Amboin. ii. tab. 38, grows to a large S t r y c h n o j .
fize.; the kernel is flat, inclofed in a round fruit, fee Biackwall,
tab. 395. It.was formerly kept in the ihops of our apothecaries,
* Knox, p. 20.