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No. = gehen ae inken date tree. 
_ The betel-nut tree ferior kinds of bis ay call- 
ed Cuttacamboo fice, in India. The first is 
brought in. fir ea pen li of a light brown 
- colour, sligh rfully astringent. 
This substance hi > pao Seed with ries real 
Catechu of the Catechu. The better sort of na- 
r betel leaves. The Casheuttie is 
of a brown black colour, 
nee much less the 
according to Whitelaw ‘ima by the eral spoon 
of Balsam of Peru. re 
No. 81—Anrow Roor. The adelhive fecula of 
Maranta Arundinacea, which see! It is 
also prepared from potatoes: see Solanum 
tuberosum, 
No. Coa wed 
Cl. 19. Ord. 2. super f 
‘Micnaniied Linn. agg tea — 
Cal. imbricate, wih w2Sck eases scales. Cor. with- 
out rays. 
Six species— 
1. Ariemesia Abrotanum. Southernwood. 
2. Artemesia Santonica. Tartarian Southernwood. 
3. Artemesia Maritima. Sea wormwood. 
4. Artemesia Absinihium. Common wormwood. 
lie Woolly wormwood. 
Orricixat. Abrotanum ; Folia Dub. Southernwood leaves. : 
small perennial shrub, native of south of Europe, Siberia, 
China, and Cochin-China. 
s. Stron fragrant odour ; nauseous bitter taste— ¥ 
iisiael extract its virtues. 
