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1. Smooth Molucca Baum. 
Molucca Levis. 
The root is compofed of long, crooked fibres. 
The flalk is iiprighc, firm, two feet high, 
redifh in the lower part, and fomewhat fquared ; 
but not fo exaflly as in many of thefe plants. 
The leaves fland in pairs and they have long, 
(lender footftalks : they are large, broad, and 
fhort, deeply indented, and of a dark green. 
The flowers lurround the joints of the up- 
per part of the ftalk ; and they are fmall and 
purplifli. Their cups are moft confpicuous from 
their valt bignefs and they afe of a yellowifh 
colour. 
The feeds are large, and irregularly fliaped : 
four fucceed every flower. 
The whole plant has a very agreeaSle fmell, 
fomewhat refembiing that of banm. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of the world, 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Molucca Uvis cdcraia. 
Others, Afelijfa tnoluccana odorata, and Molucca 
Syriaca Uvis. 
2. Prickly Molucca Baum. 
Molucca fpinofa. 
The root is compofed of nurnerous, long, 
(lender, and tough hbres. 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, two feet high, 
and branched. 
The leaves are placed in pairs: they have long 
footftalks, and they hang droo' .ing : they Sre 
broad ftiort, and deeply ilrrated : their colour is 
a faint green, and they have a very difagreeable 
fmell. 
1 he flowers furround the ftalks at the upper 
joints: they are imall and white j and they are 
fonietimes more or lefsftained with red, or fume- 
times are red entirely. The cups are not fo open 
or Ian. e as in the former kindj but they are edged 
with fharp prickles. 
It is a native of the Eaft, and flowers in Au- 
guft. 
C. Bauhine calls it Melijfa Mokccana fcelida. 
Others, Molucca fpinofa. 
The virtues are not known. 
GENUS XVL 
BAUM. 
MELISSA. 
^^pHE flower is formed of a fingle petal, and is labiated. The tubular part is of a cylindrick form. 
The upper lip is fliort, and of an arched figure : it is roundifh, and placed ereil, and is nipped 
at the extremity : the lower lip is divided into three fegments ; of which the middle one is laro-cfl: ; 
and it is of a heart-like (hape. The cup is tubular, and divided like the flower into two lips. The 
feeds are four after every flower ; and they fl:and naked in the cup. 
Linnsus places this among the didynamia gymnofpermia j the flower having two longer and two 
(hotter threads, and the feeds (landing naked. 
Common Baum, 
Meliffa. 
The root is compofed of innumerable long 
fibres, joined to an oblong head. 
The fl:alks are fquare, upright, (lender, branched, 
ftnd two feet high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs % and they hive 
(lender footftalks : they are broad, fhort, and in- 
dented. Their colour is a frefii and pleafant 
green : they have a light and fuft hairynefs j and 
they are of a very fragrant fmell. 
The flowers are fmall and inconfideraible : they 
are white ; and they (land in clufters in the bo- 
foms of the upper leaves. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
' It is a native of Germany, and flawers in Au- 
gufl:. 
C. Bauhine calls it Meliffa hortenfts. Others, 
Melijfa vulgaris. 
It is a cordial and fudoriflck-, but it is more 
ufed by the country-people than in regular 
pradtice. 
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