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reason probably he took no notice that he had the honour to be a member of 

 that body. 



2. Hoiti Malabarici Pars Decima, Undecima, Duodecimo, et Ultima. With 

 some Remarks upon them, by T. R. M. D. S. R. S. N° 214, p. 276. 



Nine volumes of this great work being already mentioned in these Transac- 

 tions, N° 145, N° igS, N° 200, we will here finish the account of the remaining 

 volumes. The 10th part contains 94 plants, with their descriptions, figures, 

 and uses, all natives of the kingdom of Malabar, collected and designed during 

 the memorable goverment of that excellent person, the Heer Van Rheed. 



This 11th part comprehends 65 plants, with their stately icons drawn from 

 the life. The first whereof is the kapa-tsiakka, or ananas, called by our Ame- 

 rican planters, the pine-apple : it was first brought into the East from the West 

 Indies, and grows larger here than iii its own native soil. Its delicacy and use 

 are well known. 



Kurka, called in Ceylon jusula, a sort of glans terrestrjs, and eaten in the 

 same manner. It grows plentifully in sandy places. 



Kodda-pail, or sedum Indicum palustre, foliis latissimis, crispis, fioribus albi- 

 cantibus pilosis, floats on the water like the stratiotes or aloe palustris, used 

 much in bloody fluxes, coughs, and lumbagoes. 



Besides these, many more might be enumerated out of this eleventh volume, 

 of daily use in the Indian pharmacopoeia, as some aloes, great varieties of the 

 arisarum, the dracunculus or arum polyphyllum, many nymphaeas, gladioli 

 palustres, tribul us aquations, several sorts of proud lilies, narcissi, arrow-heads, 

 bastard species of passion flowers, abundance of curious bindweeds, &c. which 

 make up this tome. 



This volume concludes the whole work, the noble author dying on ship-boaid 

 the last year, before Sural, where the Dutch East India Company have ordered 

 a most magnificent monument to be erected for this great benefactor and orna- 

 ment of their republic. This last volume contains 79 icons, with descriptions 

 and a general index to the whole work. It begins with several beautiful oro- 

 banches or abortive orchises growing like missletoe upon trees, used by the 

 Indians in convulsive and feverish cases. 



The woods in these climates must affbrd pleasant prospects, the trees being 

 loaded with variety of herbs, either climbling to the tops of them or shooting 

 out of their trunks and branches, of which this volume gives many species, 

 called properly epidendra, and anadendra. 



Here ends the admirable product of the Heer Van Rheed, whose perfor- 



