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ISLAND OF CEYLON. 



Callicakpa. 



Samara. 



Arundo. Arior^ or Bambo^ has been fufficiently treated of at page 142, 



of this vokime. 

 IxoRA. Coccinea is a beautiful flirub with fcarlet flowers, engraven 



at page 169, of the Botanical Magazine, and in Burm. Zeyl. tab. 



57. The flowers grow in rich rounded clufters, and bright as 



a red-hot coal. It is therefore called by Ritmpbius^ Flamma 



Jyl-camm. It is frequent in Ceylon, where it inhabits watery 



places. Peacocks are particularly fond of the berries. 

 Pav£tta. Indica, Rumph. Amboin. iv. tab. 47, is another fpecious plant, 



called, from its brilliant flowers, by the fame name, Flamma 



fylvarum. 



'Tomentoja, Burm. ZeyL 26, yields a bark, a fubftitute to the 



Indians for the betel leaf. 



Lceta, Burm. Zeyl. 76, tab. 30, yields flowers, ufed inftead of 



fafFron in dying. 

 (ToNvoLvuius. ^icrpetbum, Blackwallj tab. 397, Gerard; Turpeth is a name 



given to the root by the old Arabian phyficians ; it w^as much 



in ufe among them, and the Indian., in medicine. It was a 



flrong cathartic, and applied in dropfical, gouty, and rheumatic 



cafes, to expel the tough ferous humours from the diftant 



I">arts ; it is not at prefent in our difpenfary. 

 IPOMOEA. ^(amoclit, Rumph. Amboin. v. 421. tab. 155, is a beautiful 



climbing plant, much ufed in India for making bowers. 

 Nauciea. Orientalis, iii. tab. 55, is a tree that affords a beautiful yellow 



wood. 

 aVIorin-da. Umbellata, iii. tab. 118, is a common ufelefs wood in the 



watery places of all parts of India., with a fmall tuberous fruit. 



The root is ufed for dying red. 



Frondofa, 



