Hand that' thefe feeds are employed about. GalcuttSi 'fc'-' 

 fifh and killing crows^, bat I have obIj been able to 

 them in a fingle. native- Ihopj.. where they- were, fold u 

 the name of ^jc^m-^fl-^M/* probably from: their far 

 with the fruit of a kind of Meli& (Melia seinpermrenSs ^ 

 McihoMimba) which goes hj. that ]name», Gacamati- and. Garala-. 

 phala are both legitimate Sanfcrita. word% though they, are not 

 to be met with- in any of the di(£lionarie3 or medical, writings of i 

 the Hindoos CGofnlted on this-, occafion,. 



Since v/riting the abo-^e^ MTe.MuRBOCH Brow-m., of v4n;<irai^72^v 

 has favored me with the following: accountj _ in reply ta leveral . 

 queries, which I took the liberty to propofe to', hi;ai. relative to. 

 this interefting ihrub.. 



"The Cocculus Vine i^ indigtuows, in Malahar z-xACanara, and,; 

 *•• grows in the interior of moft: parts of thofe provinces, but mo fi: 

 ^' lux.uriandy in- South: Blalahar and Tf^avancorCo . -i: have never- 

 " feen it- wild within lefs than ten miles of the- Sea, , thoogh I hav.e 

 " planted it within half a milCj. where it grew vigoroufly andpro-^- 

 ^•^- duced fruit. Here -{at Tellicherry) it -grows to an i.mmenfe- 

 " lize, overloppipg, the higheil forefl trees and. by. its wiry hard; 

 -^ tendrik catches- hold of the 'b-rafiGhes of the "adjacent trees and 

 ^^ thus creeps,, from, one to another to an ailoniihing diftance from;. 

 ^■^.the parent root.. When in bloffom alf thefe various, branches 

 *^ as well as the parent ftem are thickly covered' with large bunches, 

 " or grape.Sj which, afterwards yield a fnrpriiing quantity of the. 

 -" Eerries,'^^ 



" The natives make no uie of the roots- eithesT; ia medicine oe 

 ^ for dyings, fo. far as- 1 have been able to: learn*" 



'"* One of the largefl. of my planted Vines, about 35 year^ old 

 5^ meafares 2.1 inches, round at about a foot and a half from the 

 Jt- ground,.. Laft.year (^817) they be|an to put forth their fiow^"- 



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