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Wood'vilki Med. hot. ii. 359. Gerardy 33. 1631. Crocus Indicus. 

 Saffran de tierra. Cyperus Indicus, Diofcorides, lib. i. c. 4. — The 

 root retained in our difpenfatoiy, and prelcribed in the jaundice and 

 other vifceral chronical obftrudtions. Is the richeft of yellow dyes, 

 but no art can give it durability. It enters into the compofition of 

 that filthy ingredient in the diflies of our orientalifts, Curry, or Karri, 

 powder. Its roots are alfo much ufed as a food in Ltdia and many of 

 the iflands. Bontius, c. 39. fpeaks highly in its praife, not only for 

 its virtue in vifceral complaints, but for its efficacy in female diforders ; 

 and alio for its excellency in promoting parturition. The Malayans 

 call it Borbori, which properly fignifies an ointment made of the 



root. 



Kaempferia Galanga, Syjl. PL i. 5. Flor. Zeyl 8. Sonchorus, Rumph. 

 Amb.v. p. 173. t. 69. f. 2. Katsjula kelengu, Rhc^. Mai, ii. 

 p. 81. t. 41. Outlines, \. 207. 



rotunda,^. Fl.Zeyl.g. Woodville,\\. -i^bo. Zedoaria Rotunda, iJ^////;. 

 Pin. lb. MAM\-k\\z,Rbeed.Mal.\\. p. 17. t. 6. Gt'r^?7/, 34.— The 

 root round. Suppofed to have been ufed in antient medicine, and lliill 

 preferves a place in the Britijh Pharmacopccia. 



BoERHAAviA diff'vfa, 7. Fl. Zeyl. lO, Tatu-dama, Rbeed. Mai. vii. 

 p. 105. t. 56. Brown "Jam. 123. 



DIANDRIA MONOGTNIA, 



Nyctanthes Arbar rrijiis, SyJl. PL i. 15. FL Zeyl. ii. Myrto fimills, 

 Bauh. Pin. ^6(). Mania Pumeran, Rheed. Mal.'i. p. 35. t. 21.* 

 Rai.HiJi.^. 1698. Gerard, iS'2.7. Outlines,]., p. 216. 



Arbor Sambac, 15. Fl. Zeyl. 12. Bauh. Pin. 398. Flos Manoi^, 

 Rumph. Amb. v. p. 52. t. 30. Arabian Pipe, Gerard, 1400. N° /. 

 —Rumphius ftyles this the nobleft of Indian flowers, not on account of 

 its beauty, but its exquifite fcent. Like others of the genus, it opens 

 in the night, and emits an unparalleled fragrancy. It is the delight 

 of all ranks of people ; is gathered and worn by the youth of both 

 icxts, braided in their hair, or elegantly fcattered over their drefs. 



undulata, 15. RaL Hiji. i6or. Tfieregam Mulla, J2/6W. Mz/. vi. 

 P* 97- t. 55- — Grateful as the former for its admirable fcent, which 

 it never lofes, and has a perpetual fucceffion of flowers. 



Nyctanthes 



