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the Merchant receive advantage by trading in a new 
Commodity. 
This is one of many Difcoveries which are already 
made by this Colledion, vs^hich I hope vi^ill fufEciently 
excufe me to thofe worthy perfons I mov'd to follicit in 
this affair that Honourable Company 5 who, uponun- 
derftanding the matter, and the importance of it, very 
readily granted their requeft. 
Mr Sam. Brown 
His Firfi Book of Eaft India Plants^ with their 
Names, Vertues, Defcription, &:c. Andjome 
aMitional Remark^ ^hy}miz^Y^m^i^ Apothe- 
cary^ and Fellow of the Royal Society. 
npHefe Plants were gathered from ¥ehrmry l)i^ 2^t!i 
to the 28th, at ningmr Vollum^ about 20 miles 
from Fort St George. 
: Haini jC/<yrbgrdund, iommh^t: ^tpny ^ not fit for 
Tillage,, a vmci V/ildemefs. 
1 Cherry-Mango. No. i." 
Mango iSy/^/e/Zw Madrafpat, fruSn Ceraji. Mi^i Pe- Mufd Pe" 
tiveriani 659. dver. No 
, Of this there is another fort little differing, only 
that the Leav£s are a little longer and (harper, which 
the Malabars call Cant man- chidde. 
This is a fmall 7>^e about 6 or 8 foot I h^iw^ Defcripfm 
Bot feen the Fruit , the Flopers have a very pleafa.nt 
fnel!, the Leaves tafte almoft like Tea, I can learn no- 
4iing of its Vertue as yet. Mr Sam, Brown* 
i 2. Madrafs Flower- Fence, with membranaceous pod?i 2. 
Crijia Pavonis mricHlata^non /pwofa^ Jiliquis membra- 
naceis e Madrafpatan. M///. Petiver. 655- Avaree Malab. 
This Shmb is about 2, 3, and fometimes 4 foot D.yir/pjfo» 
{j/gh, and bears a flat pod about a finger long, and 
-more -than than an inch broad. S. B. 
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