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Ceylon, not aboriginal. ^Fo/f mentions the lemon, and Burman, 

 in his Thefaurus, gives a little lemon, 'CnQhimon Nipis, Rmnpb. ii. 

 tab. 29, perhaps the common lime. 

 Nepenthes. I NOW proceed to the wonder of the vegetable kingdom, the 



famous Bandura, Burm. Zeyl. tab. 17, Cantbarifera, or Baun 

 Gujtdi, Rumph. Amboin. v. tab. 59, the Nepenthes Bejlillatoria 

 of Linnans. This is an herbaceous plant, with narrow leaves. 

 From their ends iffues a very long tendril, which finiflies with 

 a long cylindrical tube, fometimes fix inches in length, and 

 furnifhed at the extremity with a circular valve, completely at 

 times clofing the orifice. This is filled with a pure limpid 

 water, which continues during the time that the valve is fhut; 

 when it is open the liquor is dried up, but the flock is renewed 

 at night, when the valve is again clofed. Rumphius has feen a 

 pint of water in thofe of Amboina. They feem a variety of the 

 Ceylonefe, being thickefl in the middle. Thofe of Ceylon being 

 truly cylindrical. 



The Dutch call this plant, Kannekens Kruydy or the Can 

 Fruit, from its fingular form. Linnaus, if I may colled: from 

 the name, imagines it to have been the Nepenthes of Homefs 

 Odyjfey, Book iv. which we are told was prefented to Helen, 

 by the wife of "Tboney king of Egypt, together with the receipt 

 for preparing 



The mirth- infpiring bowl, 



Temper'd with drugs of fov 'reign ufe t' afluage 



The boiling bofom of tumultuous rage : 



'To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled care. 



And dry the tearful fluices of defpair, 



Charm'd 



