FAMILY HERBAL, 83 



greedilf, and they will be intoxicated. They \TiU 

 swim upon tlie surface with their belly upward, 

 and may be taken out with the hands. They are 

 not the worse for eating. 



The CoDAGA Shrub. Codaga palt. 



A LITTLE shrub frequent in the East Indie?, 

 and very beautiful, as well as useful. It grows 

 ten or fifteen feet high ; the branches are brittle, 

 and the wood is white. The leaves are long and 

 narrow, not at all notched at the edges, and of a 

 beautiful green on both sides ; the flowers are large 

 and white, and somewhat resemble those of the rose- 

 bay, or nerium, of which some make it a kind. 

 Each flower is succeeded by two large podi?, which 

 are joined at the ends^ and tv ist one about the 

 other ; they are full of a cottony matter about the 

 seeds. The whole plant is full of a milky juice, 

 which it yields plentifully when broken. 



The bark is the only pari used ; it is but newly 

 introduced into medicine, but may be had of the 

 druggists; it is an excellent remedy for purgings. 

 It is to be given in powder for three or four day*?, 

 and a vomit or bleeding before the use of it^ as may 

 be found necessary. 



The Coffee-Tree. Arbor cojfcefercns. 



A BEAUTIFUL shrub of the eastern part of 

 the world, which we keep in many of our stoves, 

 and which flowers and bears its fruit with us* It 

 grows eight or ten feet high ; the branches are 

 slender and weak; the leaves are large^ oblong, 

 and broad, somewhat like those of the bay-tree, 

 l)ut bigger, and thin. The flowers are white, mo- 

 derately large, and like jasmine; the fruit is a 



