II. An Account of Mr Saai. Brown his Fifth Book 
of Eaft India Plants, vpith their Names, Vcr- 
cues, Defcription, i£rc By James Petiver, 
Apothecary and Fellow a/ the Royal Society. 
To which i?re added fome Animals /e;?/ him 
from thofe parts. 
THefe F7a7?ts were gathered at Salmacka and Keraputta 
Kaudoo^ about 30 Miles fxom Madra/s^ among Sto;2y 
ground, Hi//s and Mountains^ the colour of the Earth like rujl 
of Iron : there are fome moifi places, but the ground is gene- 
rally dry and hard, 
Colletfed from the 23d of July to the firft of Augufl 1696. 5 s. 
180. Vifnecrantee iHrz/^*. . 180. 
Convolvulus Bifnagaricm Myofotldis folio. I'juk. Tub. % 
Alfines facie myofotis^Bz/J^^^^r/Vj ftutefcens ftofculis pallide fj^- 
tiavefcentibus Vluknet. thytograph. Tab, 9. Fig. i. • I' 
Viftnu Clandi Horr. Malab. Vol. xi. Tab. 64. p. Con^ ih '.fl Mai 
volvulus Indicia minor, ^^/z^xlolio, flore rubicundo purpureo 8s. j. id./c/. 
ComeL mHort. Malab.Vol. xi. p. i32.'Flor. Malab.l^ol, 22.C0L*- ^ 
« pi. 2. iJ, p.8^ 2. /7;z Auricula Muris Camelli Mfs. 
The F/<?ry^ri^ of this Plant are Blue^ and not of a pale y ell oz^^ 
as Dr Fliikenet aflerts. The Decoiiion is good in Heaick Fe- 
^vers,, Qonfumptions., &:c. Which the if<?;'f. Malih. confirms, : 
"being boyFd with Qptmin. • ; 
1 8 T . Van-ncer Maraum iH^//^^i» ^ ^ ' 
ylri^?/- Salawaccenfis Oitappje Malabaric^ folio^ flore extas fe 
riceo. 
Thefe Leaves are roundffh, laTge, and broadeft towards the 
top, in ihape very like the Katappers or Indian Almond menti- M2?'^-4- 
oned by Nieuhof'm his Itinerary : It is alfo very well defcnbei'^^^- 3- P- ^ 
and Figured in ih^Hort, Ma^ab. Vol. 4. Tab. 3 and 4. p. 5- under 
the Malabar name of Ada-mar am or o//;*<?j. ' » 
The F^w^/i grow in C/ufters Umbelwife, viz, levcral at the 
end of a long pedicle. " U u u u u u 
