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less impure according’ to circumstances. One of the:seeds is 
well rubbed for a minute or two round the inside of the ves- 
sel containing the water, generally an unglazed earthen one, 
which is then left to settle; in a very short time the impuri- 
ties fall to the bottom, leaving the water clear and, so far as 
I have been able to learn, perfectly wholesome. These seeds 
are constantly carried about by the more provident part of our 
officers and soldiers, in time of war, to enable them to purify 
their water. They are easier to be obtained than alum, and 
are probably less hurtful to the constitution, 
3. S. colubrina.* Willd. sp. i. 1052. 
Scandent ; tendrils simple. Leaves from oval to oblong, 
obtusely acuminate, triple-nerved, polished. Semin =o 
seeded. 
** The following note was written by Dr. Bene: ele 
years before this species was discovered in Bengal, and attached to 
S. Nuax-vomica.. I have therefore Shonghs it best to insert it 
here.—W..C....5. o» 
. There is a tree, but jen rare on this coast, which the 
Telingas, call Naga musadi (Naga, or*Tansoopaum in the Telin« 
ga language, means the Cobra de Capella, or Coluber naga of 
Linnus, Tunsoo means dancing, and paum a serpent ; this sort 
being famous for erecting its head and moving it from side to side 
: at the sound of music.) I have only once met with this tree, and 
then i it was Bs petit out nd me by: a Telinga Doctor. ‘The tree had 
- about'two, vel teocialaheahid ladle clee ree-fourths 
broad. - Tansy eases dtactlieanereadcs nic 
- gertions by a membrane. I took up this root with the greatest 
care, cutoff the upper part ‘from whence the shoots grew, and 
-4 planted it: in my garden, but it'soon perished. From’ the above 
 cireumstances I am inclined to think there is.a-species different 
. from the third, or scandent species oe Colubrina, as well as 
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