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The Flowers purplifli, fmall, and grow in fpikes 
^ike our Melilot^ which are fucceeded by very flender 
pendulous crooked pods. 
It grows in fa»dy, rocky y dry, barren places, in both 
.the Eaji and Wejl Indies, 
Th^ Indigo figured and defcribed by Hernandez,^ p. 
i 08. and l>^ieremhrgiHs^^^, cap. 11. feems to differ 
from this Plant, the Leaves being longer and (harp 
pointed, and what more confirms me in it, is, a 
draught which that Learned jfe/«i> and moft accurate 
Motanijiy George Jofeph Cai^tel hath lately fent to Mr 
Raji and me, whofe pointed Leaves agree with the 
Icon oi Hernandez J and like that, his has generally but 
9 Leaves, whereas ours has feldom fewer than 15, its 
pods alfo (according to Fat6ir Canjels defign ) are very 
different. 
58. Vanaraairaum MaUk 
Baccifera Peermadoori<:a Laurocerafi foL fruftu ful- 
cato, difpermo. 
Of this there are four forts, viz.VednaingHyVaccanne 
: and Velvaccmnm, Thefe are all large Trees as thick as 
a man's wafte, and about 50 foot high ^ all thefe, or 
this alone, the Natives boy 1 in Butter, and give it for 
Coughs J &c. 
Thefe Berries grow in Clufters, are black, foraewhat 
bigger than Pepper, each ends in a point, and is fulca- 
ted as if double, fome (the more ripejare cleft or crack 
towards the tip, in each half is contained one fmall 
Kernel, a little lefs than its Cafe, thefe {tick to the 
middle of the Berry, which is parted by a double 
skioi 
.^^ 59. Caufhaor Caufha-chedde. Malab. 
£4uf ^Pttiv, gt. Baccifera Madrafp. YiCci arborei foliis latioribus Afe/ 
H. M. 10, T. petiv. 38. an > KaneUi itti Canni Hort. Malab. Vol. 10! 
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