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lour grows very dark, the ftem and leaves 

 are taken out. A certain quantity of oil is 

 then poured into the coloured water, and 

 the water being drawn off, a fediment re- 

 mains behind* which, when dried in the fun, 

 furnifhes a beautifnl indigo. 



M. de la Marck made me obfcrve that 

 the revendfas is not a nutmcg-trcc, but a 

 proper genus. It is the bagatophyllum*. 



The mkby<^ according to the opinion of 

 that learned botanift, is a courhanl-hymmaa^ 



The antafara, according to the fame, is a 

 fpecies of the genus called taherna-moniana. 



The film is the cafuarma of Forfter and 

 Linnaeus the fon. 



The vua'ichlrih\% pandnmus. 



In the enumeration, here given, of the 

 trees and plants of Madagafcar, I have made 

 no mention of ananas, white pepper, watcr- 

 mclonsj bananas, Indian faffron, the large 



carda- 



