~ Species 4—MALVA ALCEA Q) Alcea. 
ta aa ae MOSCHATA. tugs 
No, 369—Maxxa. See No. 274. 
No. 370.—Masticue. The resinous product of 
Pistachia lentiscus, which see. 
No, 371.—MaAranTA ARUNDINACEA. ia? 
Cl. 1. Ord. 1. Monandria monogy. Nat. Fam. Cannez, Jus. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. ‘Coll. No. 445—figure of the plant, 
No. 446, 
most of the well naa fecula, called arrow-root— 
of the best restorative dietetics, icularly for chil- 
T, it is scarcely fit to nourish in- 
The maranta arundinacea, has lately been taken to Ceylon, 
from the West Indies; and it thrives well—they make ex- 
it arrow-root of it there—where a new species of it, 
Pan iculata, has lately been discovered, the root of — 
aa natives, and termed by the 
An esdallent kind ¢ rbot i is prepared in Travancore, 
- (India,) from the OO eurcuma angustifolia. (Roxb-) ~ 
which belongs to monandria menogynia, and Nat. Ord. 
Linn. 
Is much prized i in England—where tnuch of i it is taken from 
“the Malabar coast. Arrow-root is also obtained from pota- 
toes, from Nos. 88 and 89, and other roots. 
MARANTA GALLINGA yields the roots called lesser § al: 
langale; occasio ‘met with in commerce; they are sii 
to stop vomiting ¢ » butare no more th nan 
um album; folia. Dub. Horehound eaves 
Marrubium vulgare herba. U.S. Horehound, the herb. 
~ gga Jeff. Coll. No. 447—figure of the plant, 
a didynamous verticillate plant, well known as a éomtonn. 
- domestic remedy for catarth; and into the bitter — 
sugar, called horehound-candy, Used ad libitum in infu 
sion. oe 
