Charm’d with that virtuous- draught, th’ exalted mind
All fenfe of woe delivers to the wind.
Pliny, lib. xxi. c. ai, gives an account o f its effe its. That
wicked wag, Martin Folkes, in his witty defcription o f the Arbor
Vita, will have it to have been the all-conciliating fruit o f this
tree, the Panacea which Helen always kept by her, and ufed
on all occafions.
T he Cingalefe ftyle this plant Bandura, i. e. Priapus Vegetabi-
lis ; had Mr. Folkes known this,it would have furniihed him with
new arguments. That, lingular character drew up thé humorous
paper with wit,' which all its obfcenit'y cannot déftroy.
It wail intended as an impofition on the good Sir Élans Sloa'ne,
and the reading was aftually begun before a meeting o f thè Royal
-Society, when a member, more fagacious than the reft, dif-
covered the joke, and put a Hop to the fecretary’s proceeding.
Martin Folkes himfelf Succeeded in the prefident’s chair.
In Ceylon are found two fpeeies of the bread-fruit, the Arto- Bsea-d F r u i t .
carpus of botamfts. One,: the Integr.ifolia, Lin. Suppl. 4x2; thè The IkWjuJ
other, the Incifus, 411. It is fingular, that this bleffingto the fot,IA*
ifland fhould pafs fo long unnoticed: Yet Knox, page 14,- informed
us of (perhaps) both kinds, certainly o f the firft, and
that above a century ago. Thé IntegrifoKa he calls by the Cey-
lonefe name, ¡Varragah, which is the fpeeies filled with great
kernels : fee the fruit exprèffed in different plates, entire and differed,
by M .’Sonner'at,-in his voyage to New Guinea, at page 99.
Thefe kernels'are taken out and boiled by the natives, and
often prove preférvatives againft famine in fcaratybf rice. Exteriorly
the rind appears; prickly, but the fpines are foft, and
V ol. H« ahi V3 gi•ver