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An Account of Mic Sam. Brown His S€i:onc/ 
. Book of Eafi India Plants^ with their Names, 
Vermes, Dcfcription, i^c. J?^ James Petiver, 
Jifothecary^and Fellow of the Royal Society. 
following Plants were gathered the 27th and 
QSthof Afril 1696.; at Pear/needow^ about 16 
or 17 miles from Fort St George. 
The Country here is full of Trees and Bujhesy the 
ground clay, dry and fandy. 
48. Tetrapteros Madrafpatana Lauruftini No.^g. 
Veanaungoo MalaL 
The Trunk of this Tree grows 5 or 6 foot high^ and 
then (hoots out many ftrai^ht branches about 1 2 or 13 
foot long : the Husky Frutt has no ill tajley bat whea 
chewed makes the Spittle yellow. Mx Sam. Brown. 
Its twigs are Afti-colour^ the /e^^z/e/ ftand on (hort 
foot-ftalks, are feme w hat ^?W, tfped^lIy the younger 
ones. The Fruit is befet with 4 membranaceous wings 
near half an inch broad and i Iong,each Fn^/V ftandson 
a pedicle about an inch long. Thefe refenible the iiead 
or feed veflel of the Crown Imperial^ but are much lefs. 
49. Soldanella Pearmeedoorjca geniculis radicofis. 
Cullecaucanau Al^/^^. nt^AJ 
an Bel-AdamboeV/alliH. Malab. V. 11 T. 58.?. 119. ^^fwaiUH. 
The Root of this is a Finger the 5.^r;^ of Makb- V u. 
which grownd with a ci^p of water, will purge very T- ^8- P'**9 
well without Gripes. Two Dr^^j- is enough for a 
ftrong man. It groivsm diX)' grojwd, S, B. 
This is a ground- creeping Bindweed, putting forth 
fibrous Roots at each joynt, from whence proceeds one 
ro' ' ^'^d fometime^ cufpidated teaf^ on a foot-ftalk 
