( H9 ) 
cias hi% Cydonia Bengala. Tis about i6 or i8 foot 
high^ and about 8 or lo inches diameter* kDeco&ion oi 
the Leaves is a Counter-poyfon of the Root, purifies the 
Blood and correfts Choler^ as the Natives phrafe it ; but 
the Fruit decoded is a Fanacea in all Fluxes and Fevers* 
This, were it not Jefs, maybe much rather than NoGarcoog. 
104. as Dr Plukenet afferts the Cydonia de Bengala Garcise 
208. c. 14« Cluf.Emt' 233. Cydonia tyioticiCB, 435. Ma- 23^/ 
lumCydomum \ndi\cum Bontii 98. Fig. Cyrifole ¥x2igo[x^^- 'tis- 
61. c. 16. Covalam H. Mai. V. 3. T^?/^. 37. p. 37. i^^j H. F^Ta' 
PI, 1665. c. I. ^^^ V.' 
1 firft received the C)^i^;s?/^z de Bengal a GarciXj &c, fronip/,^'^ 
that rnoft accurate Rotanift Jacoh^f Breynius at DantzhliiR^y 1^5. 
fent him by Dr Herman from Zeylon*^ from which Ij7and^' 
I have fince had it from other hands. My ingenious 
Friend Mr James Cuninghame Surgeon obferved ic about 
Batavia ( where Bontius alfo did ) and fays the Javlans 
call it now Malliac and before that he'broughc ic me 
from Bengale by the name of Beel^ which has fome agi- 
nity with what Garcias fays, viz^. that in Be/igale its 
call'd by the Phyficians only, and in their Writings Beliy 
but by others it's commonly known by the name of Siri- 
file. He alfo confirms what Mr Sam, Brovpn and the 
Hort. Malab. afferts, vi%. that the Fruit cures Diarrheas^ 
and Fluxes. 
109. Care-yail-maraum M^/^/>. 
I take the Malabar-wotd Care or Cara to fignifie Black 
( as C^re Nucheel, or Black Agnus Cafius, Aft. PhiL No ^,7. ph, 
244. p. 319. N. 12. and confirmed hereafter at No .121) No 244-^ 
and is, I fuppofe, added here to diftinguifh it from ano-^.^^^* 
ther fpecies, whole Bark is red. 
This, I think, is tliQ Acacia^ OT Mgyptian thrn, it grows 
15 or 16 foot kigh^ and about 7 or 8 inches diameter^ 
tho I have feen it much greater up the Country. A ftrong 
Deccdion of the J3^M of this Tree, by wafliing th^Teetb 
and. 
