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applied externally, drives away the gout, called valvida by the Indians of 

 Malabar. 



Among the leguminous plants of this 8th part, the perim-kaku-valli is remark- 

 able, which bears a prodigious large lobe, containing 30 great fiat beans, out of 

 each whereof they make entire purses and snufF-boxes : these seeds are called by 

 some cor Sancti Thomae, and by others fabae purgatrices. They are so common 

 and plentiful in the islands and continent of India, that whole ships may be 

 loaded with them. 



Nai-coranna is the phaseolus surattentis siliqu^ hirsuta pungente, or our 

 cowhage, whose blistering or pricking is soon cured by the herb called thumba. 

 The pod and seed of this kidney-bean are esteemed high provocatives to venery, 

 perhaps for the same reason that cantharides are, and a successful medicine in 

 dropsies. There is another species of this pungent cowhage in Malabar called 

 kaku-valli, akin to, if not the same with, the macouna of Brasil, described by 

 Margrave and Piso. 



Schanga Cuspi is the flos clitorius of Breynius, the juice is vomitive, and the 

 root purgative. Konni a sort of abrus or liquorice, whose bean is commended 

 in the haemorrhoids. Ana-muUu, called by the Portuguese hasticantoand fabas 

 turquesca, remarkable for its many galls or excrescencies full of insects, as also 

 for its strong sharp prickles, with which the Indians bore their ears for the 

 hanging of their various pendants of gold and precious stones. Paeru and katu 

 paeru, called by the Chinese lak goetum, two most delicious phaseoli, or kidney 

 beans, cultivated by the Orientals with extreme diligence, as the best sort of 

 nourishment. Penarvalli, resembling theahovoi ofThevet in its fruit, hanging 

 down like bandaliers, hence called fruita bandoliera by the Portuguese. This 

 plant is used as a powerful antispasmodic by the Indians. The rest of the 

 herbs in this 8th tome may be referred to the halicacabum, aristolochia, clema- 

 titis, and the phaseoli, of the last of which there are many species in this volume. 

 The Qth part gives the full history of 87 plants, with their lively icons. The 

 first 17 are all apocynums, some creeping, others scandent, and some arbores- 

 cent, resembling neriums or oleanders; of these there is a wonderful variety 

 in Malabar, differing in their lanigerous or cotton-like seed vessels, their milky 

 juices are generally corrosive and poisonous. 



The todda vaddi of our author is the herba viva of Acosta, which grows in 

 many provinces of Persia ; it is esteemed as a great traumatic and lithonthriptic. 



Coletta veetla, called by Dr. Herman eryngium zeylanicum febrifugum, flo- 

 ribus luteis. The Indians chew the leaves instead of betel with the faufel or 

 arequa, and give the juice in the apthae or thrush. 



There are also in this Qth volume several sorts of trifoliate and quinquefoliate 



