C ioi8 ) 
The Natives fometimes give the powder of the wlaole Plant 
in.Urhiefbr Pox^ Rbeumatifm Gonorrhea it's iikewife 
good if taken in Water. S. B. 
- ■ 212. Coattakai 
n.Wii. 40. Ricinoides arborefcens Madrafpatam Cotini foliis H, Un, 40. 
Pni!. Ni? 24|. Vhil. No^ 244. p. g32, 40. 
i S** 4^. Is ^ 01 6 foot high, as thick as ones wrift, the Decaflion of 
this in Water f but the Natives do it with Butter) cures Hypo- 
choniriack Melancholy and Hyfteriek FaJJion : the Roor^ Bark^ 
Leaves zn^ l^w> ferve for norhing elfe, as the Natives {vf. 
S. B. ' 
, s B i\ Aucafhdammaree- ilWji!'. 
Pluk'rJ,207. Stratiotes Madrafpatana Sedi vulgaris folio. 
iif^ 6. Nymphea minima iH^ir^y/^^/^/^//^, foliis alas Papilionuni rc- 
'A\m^m.i67. ferentibus FluL Tab. 2,07. Fig. 6. ^/?Stratiotes^^vi>r/^ Diofco- 
'V^H Mai'^^' ridis Vefiing.^i. Fig. an Kodda pail Jl^A/i!'. Zeloiirj;?^.H..Mal. 
J^'xi.Tab^'^i. V. II. Tab. 32. p. 63. Sedum Ind'icum paluftre, foliis latifTimis 
^.03. co/?2^/. /» crifpls, floribus albicantibus pilofis Q?;«^/. ini/, -/ij^//. V, li, p.64. 
2' ^id M '^^^^ ^ Water Plant, when frefti in a minutes time after 'tis ^ 
io^'zl 27. * chewed, bites the tongue and mouth : A Decoflwn of this pre- 
fently cures Fevers^ Coughs^ Aft ma' s^ He^ieAs- ^ni Con/umpti- 
ons^ they generally add to it few grains of P^/p^fr^ the Flower 
is white, confifts of 4 fmall Leaves. Grows in Fonds and Wells^, ' 
and is not fixt to the, ground at bottom by any ftalk that I could 
find. S.B. 
It feenis tobc a Plant, fwimitiing or floating on the Water, 
as the jf/^'r/. Malab, znd. Vejlingius obferves theirs to do, it may. 
therefore be eafily carried by the Wind or Current from one .fide 
of a Pond to the other, like our Duckrmeat, 
214. Nommenau maram Malab. 
<:B, 114. Grows about 30 foot h/gh^ and 8. or 10 inches diameter. The 
Natives beat the R^?^r, Leaves^ Flowers^ Bark and fruity znA. 
prefs out the Juice, which they boyl in Butter^ and give a fpoon- 
fnl of k for HeSiek^ Con/umpt ions znd Cough^ with fuccefs 
thefe people think Butter helps the Vertue of Fhyfick^ Water 
. not. Tht Flower, is a complication of many threads on a ftalk, 
which foon fall off. S. B, 
This/^?d^ exaftly refembles the Waga Madrafpatan. Sen<zfoUk . 
filiqua lata comprejja ubi feminibus inflata Muf. Petiver. 697. 
afid Mr Brovuns dcfcription of the Flowers exactly agrees with 
it. 
