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II/ An Account of fame Indian PlantSj ^^c. 
with their Names, Defcriprions and V crtues 5 
Communicated in a Letter from Mr. James Pe- 
tiverj Apothecary and Fellow of the Royal 
Society ; to Mr. Samuel Brown, Surgeon at 
Fort St. George. 
S I /? , 
MY Opinion of the Plants you colleAed at Z}m' 
nercoonda , about Twel^^e Miles from Fort St. 
George^ as you defired, are as follows in the fame Order^ 
and under thofe Malabar Names and Uumlers you ftnt 
them to me : viz. 
1. Vellaiengeel maraum Malabar. 
Arbor Madrafpatana floribus hexapetalk heptapetalifoe^ 
fru£lu coronato. 
This is a fort of Angolam^ of which there are Two 
Kinds defer ibed in the Hortm Malabaricus^ viz. Vol. 4. 
Tab. 17. Pag. 39. and Tab. x6. p. SS- 
ThQ Fruit of this having but one. round flat Kernel 
agrees with the Defcription of the laft, but the Leaves 
feem rather to refemble the firft, viz. thofe in Tab. 17 o 
N. B. You fay, where Maraum is added it fignifies a 
great Tree; the ftme I have formerly remarkt in the 
Hort. Malabar, of Mara and Mar am. vid. Cornel, in Not. 
, H. Mai. Vol. 2. Tab. 49. p. 96. 
2. Naiureevee Malab. 
Dr. Plukenet, that moft accurate Botanift in his Phyto 
graphia, Tab. 10. Fig. 4, calls this Jmra»thus fpicatus 
Didamni Cretici folio Maderafpatenfis, whofe Figure re- 
A a a iembles 
