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The fruit is perfed;ly round, of the fize of a mufquet ball, and 

 of a bluilli purple color ; the flones feem elegantly carved, are 

 coUecfted in facks, and fold at a good price, and being ftrung, 

 ferve for ornaments for the neck and bread, and for beads for 

 the rofaries for the Mahometans. The timber is ufed for build- 

 ing ; and is an inhabitant of watery places, and even moun- 

 tains. 



Indica^ Poenoe, Rbced. Malab. iv. tab. 15, Raii H'ljl, PL ii. Vateria. 

 1482. This tree grows to the height of fixty feet, and to fix- 

 teen in circumference, at the bottom ; and if wounded exudes 

 a rofin ; is an evergreen, and will continue to bear fruit three 

 hundred years. The fruit is of the lize of a walnut, and has a 

 bitter kernel. Marts are made of the younger trees. The 

 Indians excavate the bodies into canoes, which will hold 

 fixty men. 



Capfularis, Rumph. v. tab. 78. The Chineje make a thread corchorus. 

 of the italics ftronger than cotton. 



jilifmoides, Rbeed. Malab. xi. tab. 46. Alpin. JEgypt. ii. 51, Stratiotes. 

 tab. 36, 37, a water plant; found alfo in the Nile, mentioned by 

 Diofcorides and Pliny ; is ufed in Egypt as a ftyptic. 



Champaca, Riimpb. ii. tab. 67, a moft elegant flowering michelia. 

 Ihrub. The flowers are of the richeft faffron color; and are 

 ■ufed by the natives of India to flrew over their beds and 

 furniture. The females ftick the flowers in their hair, a fine 

 contrail to its jetty blacknefs. 



Afiatica, i. Biirm. Zeyl. 21. The roots are ufed by the dyers annona. 

 for dying red. 



A. Squamqfa, Rumpb. i. tab. 46. Bur7n. Zeyl. 21. The 



fruit 



