88. 
The Malabar word Kela7igH or Kelengu is, I gene- 
rally obferve, put to fuch Plants, whofe Roots are 
large or Edible as the Potatoes, Tarns, &c, as may more 
parricularly be leen in the jth Volume of the Hort^ 
MM. Tab. 34- 5, 6, See. rhoin the X2th Volume p. 
23. the Author there afferts the word Ke!a?;gH to 
fignify a Root only. 
This Plant has very different Faces, according to its 
age, and therefore I believe Dr Plu^cnet had no rea- 
. fon in his Almageft, p. 54. pi. 5. to part it from thatot ^^j.^^"""' 
■ Madrafpatan, in his Phjitograph Tab. 15. Fig. 4. Pkk. Tab j^^ - 
8'8. Vus(he<au-Chedde /vf^A^/'. " '''y-^- 
Sinapiftrum Pearmeedooricum^ triphilium fol. tenuis 
fimis. 
Its pods are near one inch and a half long, and very 
flender hke the reft of this kind. Its Roots white, fi- 
brous and fticky, 
The Poivder or Decoction of this is good for a 
Cough. S, B, 
89. Perrain-chedde Malab. 
Convolvuli capfula Frutex Madrafpat, Ulmi mino- 
ris folio Muf. Petiver, 634. 
Grows 6 or 8, and fometimes 12 foot high, thick, 
a mans Leg, the whole Plant made into powder, hin- 
ders the too great Flux oiUrine, The Milk, of this 
cures pains in the joynts. There is another fort of 
this not milky, called Solo-peraia good for the fame 
ufe, B. 
The Leaves of this jhrub has very much the face and 
texture of our common Elm^ they grow inordinately on 
very fhort foot ffalks, from the bofom of thefe Leaves 
come one or tvvo Capfules, terminating in a thread, like 
thofe of our Bi?tdiveed^ but in thefe are contained but 
one Kernel. Each Capfule (lands on a ihort fiot-Jialk^ 
not exceeding half an Inch, covered with a calj/x, com- 
pofed of 4 roundifh leaves. 9a 
