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Water cures the Diabetes : it feldoni fails. This fort is 
the beft for Phyfick of all the 4 Owgees.- S. B. 
Mr Edrvard Btdktey Surgeon informs me, that a Dc- 
coUton of this drank twice a day is good in the G^3//^ andMur. p./ 
pains of the Side. ' Aa Phil 
This differs from the Bacc/fera Madrafpatana Mj/rl No 167. 
Laure£ foliis vix perforatis M^if Petiver. g6i. 8c^^. ^'^'^^^' 
Phil. N. 267, p. 711. 75. in having its Leaves thicker and 
lefs veiny, the Flowers larger, and tJie top of the Frnit 
Jlellatedj whereas the othQV is pomted. 98 
This grows alfo at Arcaut and Pedea-paulum Arnec* 
98. Tirnama pollee M^z/^^. 
Patsjotti Zeylanica L^^r^ Ceraf folio leviter ferrato. Aim. Boc 
an hxhox Africana fubrotundo foJio margine denticulis*^f^^j^!^j^ 
acutis afp^ato, floribus pentapetalis atro purpurei3\i4/^. 2^3. Fis^ 
Bot, 41. pi. 5. Fluhet. TA. 263. Fig. i & 2. ^ ^nd %. 
The Katou Patsjotti Hort. Malab. V. '^.Tab.j.p.i^ 
& RaiiH. PI. 1572. cap. 8, very well refembles this Shrub. 
The Flowers of this are yellowifh in my Specimens, 
and not of a deep Purple, as Dr Plnkenet affirms, but 
the Calyces when full ripe are fo, which I fuppofe may 
be thofe the Dr calls Flowers. Dr Herman firft fent me 
this frorn Ceylon^ I have fince received it from- Viriaga pa^ 
tan^ among thofe Mr Wynn Surgeon brought me. I have 
alfo had it out of the Company s Garden at Fort St George^ 
and wild from feveral places thereabout, but as yet I 
have not feen it from any part of Africa, much lefs frorn 
the Cape of Good Hope^ from whence Dr Plnkenet fays he 
had it. It grows 8 or 9 foot high, thick as a Mans Arm. 
The Root^ Bark and Leaves^ eirher in Powder ox Decodil- 
on^ cures lingring or Hedick Fevers^ or as thefe people 
exprefs it, a Fever in the Bones. It*s of kin to No 50. 
6\ B. It may he foin Vertue ^i^ a Peftoral, hut not in kind 
that being an Apocynum. 99 
99. Slrritnar velkey['^2iO. ^ 
Sebeften£ folio Frutex, ForiuuS racemofis. 
' T 1 1 t t 2 Grows 
