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bepou, which is the true nimbo of acosta, of which there are two species. To 

 these we might add some Indian ricini, cisti, several kinds of limes, althaeas, 

 plums, oriental elder, barberry, &c. with their uses. 



The 5th volume comprehends 6o trees and shrubs, most of them bacciferous, 

 excellently engraven in large copper plates. The katou karua is a second species 

 of cinnamon, observed wild in several provinces of Malabar, the other sort 

 being described in the first part of this work under the name of Karua, both 

 inferior to the cinnamon-tree growing in the woods of Ceylon, though all alike 

 in leaf, flower, and fruit. Beesha, the leaves of which are arundinaceous, a-kin 

 to the ily or bamboo cane described in the first tome ; of the beesha the natives 

 make their baskets, arrows, and writing pens. Nola-ili, a third species of 

 bamboo, sent as merchandise into Persia, Arabia, and the Turkish empire, 

 where they make long pipes of it for smoking their tobacco. Cammetti, a 

 sort of tree, tithymal, or spurge, above 40 feet high, with the decoction of 

 which they kill worms, and cure ulcers : the milky juice of this plant mixed 

 with the powder of carcapula, a sort of gutta gamba or gemou, is said to per- 

 form wonders in dropsies. Many of the rest contained in this 3th volume may 

 be referred to our vitis-idsea, to the myrtles, thelauristines or wild bays ; to the 

 rhamnus, euonymus, &c. all which the Indians apply to many uses in physic, 

 mechanics, and agriculture. 



In the 6th volume are described and figured 6 1 trees and shrubs, the greatest 

 part of which are siliquose, as the tsetti-mandarum, called by Breynius, frutex 

 pavonius, sive crista pavonis, and by the Portuguese, flos pavonius, from the 

 pride and figure of its flower. Its seed is not unlike that of Aldinus's acacia in 

 the Farnesian garden, yet it seems a-kin to the senna kind. Tsiapangam, called 

 by the Dutch rasphout, not unlike the red wood of Brasil in all its parts, and 

 in the dying trade, for which it is sold ; the lobe or pod is figured by Clusius in 

 his Exot. 1. 3, c. l6 ; but here we have the full history of it. Mouricou, com- 

 monly called the coral tree, of which there are several species in both Indies ; 

 it is spinose, and trifoliate, the flower and seed of a coccineous colour. In the 

 island of St. Maurice it exceeds in height all the other trees, and therefore 

 called elephantina. Its trunk is loaded with snails, and the pepper-shrub often 

 climbs up it like ivy. Of the wood the natives make sheaths for knives and 

 swords ; and with it, and a calcined stone, they polish perspective glasses ; with 

 the bark they wash their vests called sarassas, and make the confection caril of 

 the flowers. Wellia Tagera, called in several places of India coupang, of great 

 use and success in gouty cases, as the kopang-tree of New England is reported 

 to be by our planters ; hence some stile it arbor antiarthritica. 



To these we might add the katou-conna, a sort of cassia fistula. The thora 



