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SECT. V. 



Botany. 



Itaque ifta quoque naturae rerum contemplatio, quamvls nqn 

 faciat medicum, aptiorem tamen medicinae reddit. 



Cblsus. 



i. HPHE feeds of almoft all the Indian plants 

 are worth collecting, they may be pre- 

 ferved in the manner described in fe£h III. 



2. What trees bear the myrobalans, a drug 

 formerly much in requeft, but at prefent in little 

 efteem as a medicine, but which might probably 

 afford fome ufe in dying ? What fpecies of trees 

 bear the myrobalans bellirica, chebula, citrina ? 

 and indica or nigra; whether a kind of phyllan- 

 thus as the myrobalanus emblica ? The ufe alfo 

 of the fame in India? 



3. Is the aloe-wood or eagle-wood, the ca- 

 lambac, and the agallochus, the fame or different? 

 The place from whence procured, with the gene- 

 ric and fpecific characters ? 



4. Is the orchel or rochel (lichen rocella, 

 Lin;) which is found in Madeira, and ufed to dye 

 red, a kind of lichen or a zoophyte? Is the 

 fteeping it in putrid urine fufficien't to prepare it?, 



5. Where does the lignum rhodium grow? 

 Is it a kind of nyftanthes or Indian jafmine ? 



6. Of what genus and fpecies is the tea-wood^, 

 of which tea-chefts are made ? 



7. What 



