(93^) 
^ Grows 3 or 4 foot high. The Natives who have pains 
in the head and in all their bones, fpme vAth the Powder 
oi this whole VUnt, put on live Coals and pretty well co- 
vered, which produces plentiful Sweats, and does much 
good. S.B. 
•^39' 139. Arbor Er^^/V^;;^ Lauro-Cerafi 
Sumtra-poonee Malak 
The Leaves are thick and very hke our Laurel, but (ome 
rounder, they grow on fliort footftalks, which are ribb*d 
as the twjgs, at the fetting on of thefe Leaves come forth 
fmall clufters of httle Flowers, with fcarce any footftalks, 
Vi^hich are followed by a fruit I have not yet examined be- 
canfe unripe, yet fome of them are bigger than a Cherry, 
adhering to a foliaceous calyx like the feed of our Elm, 
but much leis. 
Grows 6 or 8 foot high^ thick as ones wrift. A De- 
coction of the Leaves are Carminative and expel Wind. 
S.B. 
X^o. 140. Rette pe marette M^/^^, 
Gangetic. Oleajiri ioVio, fyki Pamcea. 
vwk.Tnh. 10. Amaranthns albus Ga^gcfic//s Salvise anguftis folijs, pa- 
niculfi conglomerata P///y^. Tab. lo". Fig. i. Amaranthus 
Breyn pr 2p Alopccirroidcs j/d" frutcfcens, lanuginofus, folijs Salvias 
. ' ' 'angijlricdbiTS 8c longioribns Bry-;?. Prod. 2. 
Thefe Leaves refemble XhQ Wild Olive, t'aQ Spke white . 
, and foft, otherwile very like the Gr^^/^;^ Panicecumy/?/V^ 
divrfa I. C. B* 8. Dr Sherard^ that accurate Botanift, af- 
flires me, this is not the Salvia Amaranthoides Nutii 
Fafcic. Herb. 60. as Dr Pluk^et fuppofes- 
Is about 3 foot high 5 the Natives put this in a Cloath 
becvveen two unglazed Pots to boyl : So that the fume of 
the Water in the undermoft may moiften the Herb, which 
they prefs out, and give 2 fpoonfuls of it warm for Cough 
and Ajlwa. S. B. . 
141. Cam- 
