"رحلة من إنجلترا إلى الهند في سنة ١٧٥٤ وسرد تاريخي لعمليات الأسطول والجيش في الهند، تحت قيادة الفريق واتسون والعقيد كلايف، في السنوات ١٧٥٥، ١٧٥٦، ١٧٥٧ ... ورحلة أيضًا من بلاد فارس إلى إنجلترا من طريق غير معتاد. مع ملحق يحتوي على تقرير عن الأمراض المتفشية في سرب الفريق واتسون، إلخ" [‎٤‎٧‎٣] (٥٦٢/٥٢٦)

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Scarlet Fig.
This is a very fpreading tree, the branches generally growing in a cir
cular manner as if cut by art, the under part of the limbs making almoft
a plane at the diftance of 10 or 12 feet from the ground, affording fine
Ihelter for the cattle •, the upper part is convex, and of a confiderable height.
The femidiameter of one near Calcutta in Bengal is full 20 yards. The bark
is brown, the fkin next it, and alfo the wood, is of a bright reddifh brown.
All the figs from their limbs drop fhoots which take root. The leaf is of a
fine deep ihining green above, but fomewhat paler below. It flowers as the
other figs do; the fruit is a fine fcarlet fig, whofe diameter is an inch.
Coddam.
This is a large timber-tree which grows to 40 feet in height; the root
fpreads much. The bark is grey, and much cracked \ the wood is of a pale
yellow, and clofe grained. The leaves are of a fine green colour and elegantly
ribbed, they grow in pairs. The flower grows at the end of the branches,
it is round and of the fize of a tennis-ball, and almoft as hard, exceptino-
the ftyle, which is much longer than the cup, and being perfe6lly white^
ftanding out of it, makes it look as if it was larded: the furface of
the ball is made up of fine yellow monopetalous cups, 4 of an inch lono-,
divided into five parts for a third of their length j and their five (lamina are
fhorter than the cups. Stigma are oval; thele are fo very clofe together as
to make it of the hardnefs above-mentioned ; within this, of the fame length,
is another feries of white flowers : the reft is a fibrous white fluff, without
any appearance of feed ; the flower is fixed to a long and (lender peduncle.
This tree is planted for ornament and fhade, on the fides of the walks at
Bengal.
Singo , on the Malabar coafl; Morunga , on the Coromandel.
This tree grows up to 20 feet, and fpreads a great deal. The bark is
nearly white, the fkin that is next to it, reddifh j the wood is whitifh and
fpungy. The leaves are of a pale green, very tender, and pinnated farther
than Dr. Hill defcribes them to be, but I think what he calls the ramofe
leaf of the Ben, comes neareft to a true defcription. The flowers are white,
and grow on large fpikes almoft covering the tree, yielding a beautiful
appearance. The fruit is a long triangular pod, which contains in its
cavities hard, angular, alated nuts, and which I apprehend to be the Ben nuts.
The root of this tree is ufed as horfe-radiih, and taftes very much like it.
The leaves mixed with a little fait, and taken after a furfeit, vomit fmartly.
The fruit when green the Indians eat in their curries, and fo they do the
flowers. The tree affords areddifh gum, in fhape and quality like gumTra-
gacanth. Query, if the wood be not the Lignum Nephriticum ? It grows
all over India.
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