[ 1 
Dr PhkenetrhQ given in his Mk^^///^ pag. 58. as F^uk, 169, 
new, notwithftanding he had 7%//re^/ it before, yet^'^' 
at the fame time might know it was better done in 
the aforefaid Hort. Malabaricus, 
This grows about 4 foot high in dry places, the 
Natives make Twine and Rapes oi it, and fometimes 
ufe it to fume thofe who have Fevers^ S, B, ■ 
44. Malabar Arrowhead. Cooletteyella ^^''^^^- ^n^^^o 
Grows in the water, the Natives ufe the root bruifed f. y/phul 
to cure their fore feet, which they often have in wec^^^^J'^- 
weather going barefoot. B, See its Synonyms and ^^^^{'u 
comparative difference in tlicP/6i/f?/ij?. Tranf^'Ho 224. No. sp. 
p. 351. No. 39. 
45. Convolulus HinqHer'FollumenJts, foL cordato 
polyanthos, pediculis quaii fpinofis, Moolepuncoodee 
Malab. * 
This Climer Dr Plukenet pofitively afferts to be the ^^^^^ 
Scammonea Syriaca C B 295. or true Scamony of the ' ^^"^" 
Shops, which I am fure he has feen growing in the 
^p^'^/jer^nej* Phyfick Garden at Chelfea^ but I believe 
never obferved the footftalks of the Leaves to be 
endowed with thorn-like excrefcencies, refembling pi^k. 
that imperfed one, which he has figured ^T^^. 276.%- 3- 
3. Befides its Leaves^ Flowers, Seed Vejfels^ and 
manner of growing are fo very different, that he had 
norea(on to fuppofe it the fame . 
46. Periploca Malabarica foL anguftiffimo* Nan-^ 
m-ree-chedde Malab. Segunda-paU Gent. 
This climing Herb, Leaves^ Root and Branchy the 
Natives boyl with long Pepper^ and drink the Decofti- 
on in continual Fevers, the Root is of a very fv/eet 
fmell^ and I believe of more ufe than they talk of 
S. B. 
After Dr Pluhnet in his Almagefinm BotarHcupi p. 
37. pi. 2, had declared this to be the Apocynum an- 
gufto Salicis folio CB, 303, and that it was brought 
from 
