712 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS, [aNNO 1702. 



ociili cancrorum or crabs' eyes ; there is no cavity withii), and if pounded, they 

 have the same effect as testaceous powders, and are nsed instead of crabs' eyes. 



Here are several trees, one of which may be above 6 fathoms high, whose 

 root grows as it were above ground, in the following manner; when the twig 

 is about half a foot high, there grows out of the middle of the stem a little 

 knot, inclining downwards, making an angle with the stem of about 30 degrees, 

 till it touch the ground ; where it fixes, sending out small sprigs,* which before 

 it touched the ground had neither branch nor leaves, but all over green, even 

 like a shoot. While this shoot grows and the stem becomes higher, it still 

 sends forth other shoots, which always come out of the middle of the tree or 

 trunk ; thus it continues shooting forth, till the tree arrives at its full growth ; 

 and the higher the tree grows, the knots and the shoots are the thicker and 

 longer ; so that one of the shoots which grows last, will be a foot thick in 

 diameter, and 3 fathoms long. 



The flower called happumal is found on a tree that grows in the same 

 manner, but only two fathoms high ; if planted round an orchard, they make 

 an excellent hedge; for the leaves are thorny, and full of prickles; when the 

 flower decays, it bears a fruit like a pine-apple, but it is of no use. 



Mr. Samuel Broiutis T ih Hook of East India Plants. By James Pettier, 

 F.R.S. These plants tvere gathered beliveen the 15th and 20th of June, j4.D, 

 1696, in the ffai/s teltieen Fort St. George and Trippetee, which is about 70 

 Miles of. N° 282, p. 1251. 



An enumeration and description of 67 East India plants, gathered at the 

 places above mentioned. To this catalogue of plants is subjoined a description 

 of 5 shells; viz. 1. Pecten Madraspatan. 2. Mytulus striatus Madraspatan. 

 angustus. 3. Myt. striatus Madrasp. latus. 4. Pectunculus Madrasp. variegatus 

 crassus, striis lateralibus, and 5. Pectunculus Madrasp. crassus, maculis croceis. 

 These shells were sent from Fort St. George, by the Rev. Dr. George Lewis. 



Some Thoughts concerning the /indent Greek and Roman Lyre, and an Expla- 

 nation of an obscure Passage in one of Horace'' s Odes. By Dr. Tlio. Mulyneux, 

 F.R.S. N°282, p. 1267. 



The 3d Ode of the fourth book of Horace, beginning with these words, 

 Quem tu Melpomene, &c. has been esteemed by the most learned critics, 

 one of the most correct master-pieces in its kind that antiquity has left us. 

 This, with another of Horace's Odes, that Julius Caesar Seal iger, in his Trea- 



* Some species of cactus. 



