GANGETIC HINDOOSTAN. 319 



ber ; of the bark is made ropes, nets, packing cloths, &c. and 

 of the rags of thofe is fabricated the paper. 



LiEUTEXANT Cbarks Bamilloii, in the ^/f^/Zc Refearches, i. MahwahTree. 

 p. 300. defcribes a tree found in Babar called the Mahwah, or 

 Maduca, of the Po/yandr/a inonagynia kind. The fruit yields 

 on expreffion an oil, ufeful as the ghee or Indimi butter ; the 

 flower yields, by diftillation, a water, ufeful in adding ftrength 

 to the Cunie, or rice food of the Indians-, and the timber is of 

 great toughnefs, and poffibly ufed in fliip-building, and for 

 beams for houfes. It muft be of great value for the laft pur- 

 pofe, as it refifts the ravages of the pernicious ternies^ 



Mr. Alexander Dahymple has given, in his firft number of Nerium Tinc- 

 the Oriental Repofitory, p. 39, an account of the Nerium tinHo" '^°^^^'^^* 

 rium^ or tree Indigo, with a good plate, communicated by Dr. 

 Roxburgh ; it is a native of the Rajahmundry Circar. It will be 

 found a good fubftitute for the common Indigo ; it grows wild, 

 is very hardy, and not liable to the accidents which affecft the 

 common Indigo plant by the wet, and which often difappoint 

 the hopes of the manufacturer. This grows to the height of 

 fifteen feet, and yields a beautiful wood, white as ivory 

 itfelf. 



I MAY add fi-om the fame repertory, p. 38, to the Cochin^ Bread Frl^it- 

 vol. xi. p. 146, that the bread-fruit tree grows mofl luxuriantly 

 in that neighborhood, and that the Butch call it Maldiviny "Jack. 

 It is amazing that we did not difcover this before, and fave our- 

 felves the humane but difaftrous voyage of Captain Bligb in 

 fearch of this fruit. I beg Dodor Ander/on's pardon if I judge 

 wrongly of him, by thinking he was unacquainted with ths 



trug: 



