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the Indians of its having been the Parad'ifiacal tree, and that it : 

 continued the food of the wife men, or the BrahjninSi as if it 

 was fuppofed to ftill have the power of imparting wifdom to 

 thofe who fed on its fruits. Unnccus gives the name of Mus a 

 fapientum-i Treinfs Ehret^ tab. 21, 22, 23, to another fpecies, with 

 a fhorter fruit. By the trivial he feems to think this to have 

 been tiie tree of knowlege : but to decide on. the important 

 difpute is far beyond my abilities. 



OpHioxYLof, ^erpentinimiy — vii. tab. 16, is a plant of mod potent virtues,, 

 as an alexipharmic, and has been fpoken of before. 



Celtis. Orientalise — iv. tab. 61, is the RoJ'u, the bark of fifliermen, 



from its great ufe in dying their nets, and giving them du— 

 rability. 



Mimosa. Nodofa, M. Bigemina. M. Entada, Jacq. Am. 265, tab. 183. 



M. Scandens, Rumph. v. tab. 4. M. Firgaia, Burman. Zeyl, tab. 

 2. M. Cafia, FL Zeyl. p. 217. M. Pennata^ Burman. Zey/.tab. i,,, 

 a moft elegant fpecies, with the. flowers branching on the- 

 fummit in the lighteft' manner. M. Temiijolia^ SyJI. PL iv..353.. 



Indica, Rumph. Atnboin. iii. tab. 84. I have, at page 207,, 

 quite out of courfe, anticipated the account of this wonderful, 

 fpecies, perhaps through zoological partiality. 



Religioja is perhaps the Arbor conciliorum of Rumpbius^ iii. 

 tab. 91, 92, Arcaluy Rheed. Malabar, i. tab. 27. This is alfo a: 

 very fingnlar kind ; the body rude to the higlieft degree, as if 

 formed of the accretion of many trunks, angular, and in many 

 places cavernous. The branches fprcad out moft extenlively on 

 the fides, grow acrofs, interwoven with each other, and often 



growing 



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