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fruit are of no value, and are chiefly devoured by the bats;
fometimes are gathered before they are ripe, and left to ripen
under heaps of rice, and then eaten.
Indica, Rbeed. Malab. i. tab. 45. Raii Hiß. ii. 1741, a lofty, but
not fpreading tree; loves fandy places ; its fruit of a great fize,
oblong and flat; the leaves ufeful in dying black.
Orientale, Burm. Zeyl. tab. 38, fig. 1. This is an annual,
cultivated in Italy, in early times,', on account of the feed,
from which; abundance o f oil ufed to be exprefled. It is
thought, that no vegetable contains fuch a quantity. Arrian
frequently mentions the feeds or its oil #, as a great article of
commerce from India, and the other eaftern regions. It was
ufed both as a food, and in medicine t. Rumpbius, v. p. 204,
tab. 76, defcribes another Sefamum hied for the fame purpofes,
univerfally cultivated in India.
Pentandrum, Rumpb. i. tab. 80. Pania Paniala, Rbeede,
iii. tab. 49, 50, 51, pod of the wool-bearing tree, Gerard,
1552, a tree that grows to the fize o f our walnut; bears long
pods filled with feeds, wrapped in a fine ihort down, too Ihort
for fpinning; but after being drefled is o f great ufe in fluffing
beds and the like. The wood is excellent for making palings,
and other fences.
B. Ceib'a, Jacq. Am. p. 192, tab. 176, bears a long pod, with a
prickly coat; common to both worlds.
Populneus, Rumpb. ii. tab. 74. H. Rofa Sinenßs, iv. tab. 8.
. This Flos Feßälis, as it is called, is the ornament of every
* Arrian, Mar. Erythr. ii. p. 150. f Plin. lib. xviii. c. 10. lib. xxiii. c. 4.
feaft,
ffeaft, and inftead o f the invifa Cuprefus, follows every unmarried
youth to his grave, be they Chrißians be they Gentiles.
Herbaceum, iv. tab. 12. and G. Arboreum, iv. tab. 13, the laft
having a more fhrubby ftalk than the other, the firft is fown
annually, but thrives better on the dry Coromandel coaft than
any other. This produces the great manufactures o f the Indies,
callicoes, and every other fpecies fo well adapted to the climate.
Thefe plants are natives alfo o f the hotter parts o f America, and
of Africa ; and even cultivated with moft profitable fucceft in
Valentìa in Spain ; page 421, vol. vi. o f the MS. part o f this
work, gives fome account of the produce.
Ferrea, vii. tab. 11, is a low tree, remarkable for giving a
pleafant fhade, and thè rich mace-like fcent o f its flowers. Ferr
ea ,Syft. PI. iii. 269, Baiulla Tfiampacum, Rbeede, iii. tab. 53,
Raii Hiß. 1680.
The fuperb flower, Barringtonia Speciosa, Lin. Suppl. PI.
312; Cook's fécond Voyage, i. p. 157. Butonica, Rumpb.iii. 170.
tab. 114, is found in this ifland, and in all tropical countries': Is
a lofty tree, and of confiderable thicknefs, but is feldom eredi,
bending fo that the branches hang into the water, for it is
univerfally an inhabitant o f watery places. The fruit is large,
and quadrangular, as reprefented in Clufius's Exotic, lib. ii. c. 5.
It is ufed, in Amboina as a remedy in the colic. In "Ternate and
fa v a , it is made into a pafte, mixed with other drugs, and ufed
to intoxicate fiih, as is done by the Qocculus Indicus.
Draco, ii. tab. 70, is a tree that grows to a vaft height, much
efieemed for the fweetnefs of its flowers, and the beautiful red-
nefs of the wood, uniform or varied, fo as to referable flames of
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