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Xalm Nama^ 



7.dEcM..Sp. 



Engiyh ISfames^ 



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Calamus Rotang 

 Ptcrocarpu sD raco 

 Dracxna Draco 



PoIIcliOs Soja 



Launifi Cafiia 

 JLaurus Cinamo- 

 mum 



X-aur. Camphora 



Three forts of Glim 

 Dragon, or Dra- 

 gon's blood. 



P L A NTS. 



Ohfcrvafwns. 



pcriment to be the genuine true RhubarT> 

 of the fhops, and is a moll valuable ac- 

 quiiition to this country, as it will grow 

 well in a deep rich foil, inclining to a i'andy 

 or gravelly loam, but not in too wet a fitu- 

 atioT), and may be cultivated both here and 

 in North-America Mr. Jnglith- has raifed 

 this plant with ib much fuccefs at his coun- 

 try houfe at Hanipilcad, as to be able not 

 only to jiroduce fonie excellent good rhu- 

 barb, but afufHcient quantity of ripefocd to 

 make a large plantation; and at the lame 

 time has moil gcnerouJly bellowed a great 

 deal of Iced to be Tent to our American co- 

 lonic?, where, no doubt, but it will prove 

 in n few years a moft beneficial article of 

 commerce. 



From a kind of cane in the Eaft-Indics. 

 a. From Java and .Stirinam. 3. From the 

 Canary and Madeira iflands. 



Cycas CircinaJis 



Amyris GlJcad- 

 ciifis 



p. 528 

 p. 528 



p. 52S 



p. 1658 

 Lin- Mant. 



165 



Camphire trccf 



Saga Palm tree 



True balm of Gi- 

 lead tree \ 



p. 463 I'hrcelortsotGum i. 



p. 1662 



jLin.S'yfl. Ed. 

 I?, p. 246 



Lin. Sp,loa3|A kind of kidbeanjUfed for making Soye* or Indian Ketchup. 



called Daidfu I See Kxmp. Amcenitat. 

 CalfiaLIgnea tree Grows in Sumatra. 



Cinnamon tree In Ceylon, Guadaloupe, and in mod of our 



newly ceded iilands. 

 In Japan, and in Sumatra, now in England iu 

 the green houfes about Tondon. It will 

 grow freely where oranges and lemons do. 

 In Java, and the warmeft parts of the Eaft- 

 Indies. 



Lately difcovercd in Arabia by Dr. Forlkail,. 

 and dcfcribed by Dr. Linnicus in a late dif- 

 fertation, 



Arundo 

 * The method of preparing Eaft-India Soye, or India Ketchup. 



Take a certain meafure, for inilance a gallon, of that fort of kidney-beans, called Daidfu by 

 the Japoncfe, and Caravauces by the Europeans; let them be boiled till they are foft; ajfo a 

 gallon of bruifcd wheat or barley, (but wheat makes the blackcfl Soye) and a gallon of com- 

 mon fait. Let the boiled caravanccs be mixed with the bruifed wheat, and be kept covered 

 clofe a day and a night in a warm place, that it may ferment. Then put the mixture of the ca- 

 ravuncc'^ and wheat, together with the gallon of fait, into an earthen vcffel, with two gallons 

 and an half of common water, and cover it up very clofc. The next day flir it ubout well with 

 a battering machine or mill {RiUahuh/m) for fe vend days, twice or thrice a day, in order to 



blend it more thoroughly together. This work mull be continued for two or three months 

 then ftrain off and prcfs out tlie liquor, and keep it for ufe in wooden veffels; the older it is the 

 dearer it will be, and of fo much more value. After it is preH'ed out, you may pour on the 

 remaining mafs more water, then :ftir it about violently, and in fome days alter you may 

 prefs out more Soye. ■' 



f 'Fhe camphire from Sumatra isgrcatly preferable to that of Japan; we are not certain whe- 

 ther it is from a different fpecies of tree, but it letms well woiih inquiring into, as the effi;t'T:s 

 of propor:I-;iiable quantities in medicine are furprlzingly different, perhaps it may he owinj>- to 

 the great difference of heat in the climates, 



\ Wc have in the ifland of Jamaica, a fpecies of tree of this genus, called hy Linxus Amyris 

 Balfamifera. See Species Phmtarum, p. 496. Sir Hans Sloane, in his hill, of Jam. vol [T 

 p. 24, calls this tree Lignum Rhodium, from the odoriferous fmell of It's wood when burnt' 

 which it diffufes a^rcat way; for v;hithrcafon he believes it to he the tree that alFordcd the 

 agreeable ff.ent which Columbus perceived on the South fliore of Cuba, upon the difcoverv of 

 that ifiand, as is mentioned by fevcral hiftorians. Dr. Pat. Browne, in his hiftory of famaica 

 p. 208, calls this tree white candlewood, or rofcwood, and commends it much; he (ays it is 



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