ISLAND OF CEYLON. aiy 



its boughs at the rifing of the fun, and is only cheerful in the 

 night. The Indian poets make it to have been the Daphne of 

 India, once beloved by the fun, whofe embraces fhe rejedted 

 like the Ovidian Daphne. 



Grandijiorum, Merian, tab.xlvi, inhabits M/a'/<3t/^^r; thisifland Jasminum, 

 and Sumatra are famed for the rich odor of their flowers. The 

 J. Azoricum<i Burm. Zeyl. tab. Iviii, found its way from hence 

 to the Azores. 



Ecboliunu Burm. Zeyl. 6, tab. iv, is the Adhatoda of the Cinga- Justicia. 

 lefe, who attribute to it the imaginary powder of attradting the 

 foetus. 



Of the Piper genus, Ceylon polTeires, befides the fpecies be- Pxper. 

 fore mentioned, P. Malamyris, Rumph. Amb. v. tab. n6, and P. 

 Sereboa, tab. 117. 



'Indica, Rumph. Amboin. ii. tab. xxiii, Balam-puiU, Rbeede^ i. Tamarindus* 

 tab. 33, Raii Hijl. 1748. That noble tree grows to a vafl fize 

 here. The Dutch clergy often pitch their pulpits beneath the 

 fhade, and deliver their difcourfes to their great congregations 

 fecure from the fun. Providence feems to have given this falu- 

 tary and cooling fruit to the torrid zone, as the moft refrefliing 

 at all times, and moft efficacious in fevers, dyfenteries, and 

 Cholera morbus, difeafes fo frequent in India. 



Zeylanica, Burm. Zeyl. 26, and Ind. 15, an acorn-bearing Olax. 

 tree, fmelling like ordure, yet is ufed by the Cingalefe as a 

 fallad. 



Arborefcens, Hart. Cliff. 27, deferves to be pointed out as a Panicum. 

 grafs that rivals in height the talleft trees ; yet the ftalk does 

 not exceed in thicknefs a goofe's quill. 



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