ts873 
This grows in the Water, th^ mod of the Brandies Piuk. 30^. 
which are very long and lye on the furface of the 5- 
Tanks or Ponds curFd in Rings one within another , 
is very light and fpongy, and fo foft, that you may 
^ueeze it how you pleafe. S. B. 
Dr Plukenet hath not only needlefsly and lamely 
Figured this Herb 309. No. 3. it being before 
much better done in the aforefaid Hort, Malabo but 
fince that, to confound and multiply fpecies, has gi- 
ven it again as New in his Mantijfa p. 140. 
21. Lychnis Indica Gentianse folHs ^ Febrifuga , 
G?r/V///^ Zeylonenfibus Mnf. Petiver. 657. Narre ^^^^- ^«e- 
comptee MaUL 
This grows 6 or 8 inches high in wet places, the 
mid-day Siin parches it . S. B. 
22. Centanrium elatius Clinopodij folio Hinguer^ 
Pollnmenfe caule hirto. Mucaorundce Malab. 
This rifes with flender weak Branches about 3 or 
4 foot high^ when frelh it (raells like Chwches^ the 
jNatwes e3.t it for pains in the back. 3. B. 
23. AmhvoGx 'dSinis Q Madrafpatan Perficari<e fo- ^3- 
lio Mnf. Petiver, 605. Nonducallacree Mdab. 
' This is a neater Plants grows 6 or 8 inches kig^^ 
the Natives eat it. S. B. 
24. Samolus Hinguer-Pollumenfis Saturei<e rigidis 24. 
foliis. Arraveenampoondoo. Malab- 
- This rifes about a foot high, thrives beft in hard 
ground. BoyFd in Oyl of Coco-nut with other things, 
the Natives cure Pal[ies of long ftanding. 6*. S. 
25. Genifta tinftoria Madrafpatana foliis fericeis. j^. 
Nellacrandee Malab. It grows in hard ground 6 or 8 Pluk.io?, 
iflches high. S. B. The Author thQ Phytographta^'^ '^' 
Tab. 205. Fig. 7. hath given a very imperfeft Figure 
ef this, under the title of Mjofoth\ an Epithet very 
different from the genus of the Plant. 
A aa a a 
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