"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" [‎٤‎٨‎٦] (٥٦٢/٥٣٩)

B ora C onkrill.
This is the largefl: of the fpecies; it is a procumbent plant, and throws
out roots at its joints. The leaves are angular, and of a bright green.
The flowers 1 have never feen. The fruit is oval, and larger than an
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without, and white within. The leaves arc not fpinous, and are vij
inches long; the bafe, is one inch broad, and of a deep green, fpotted
with a purple colour. The flower-ftalk is near two feet long -, the fruit
grow round it from top to bottom, thefe are fmall berries, each containing
one feed. The juice of the leaves fweetened is a great reftorative.
B onchurrilly..
The root confifts of feveral bulbs of a pyramidal form, and half an incjh
in diameter,-with fome long fibres, of the iize of a goofe-quill. The plant
Js graffy, the culm part is about 14 inches high-, the leaves are oval, and
11 or 12 inches long. The flower-ftalk is in the middle of the leaves,
creft, green, and of the thicknefs of a large goofe-quill. The flower grows
like our Fox-glove. The fruit are feven or eight green oval pods, one inch
long, and deeply divided in fix parts. The root with fait in the form of a
cataplafm, is applied to bruifes^
A rra C hitta.
This grows five feet high, but muft be fupported; the perpendicular
root is as thick as a man's finger, and fends forth five or fix ftalks, which
cling to any thing they chance to meet with, and near their tops they divide.
The leaves grow alternately on the ftalk, or the branches; they are pin-
. nated, and three pair and an odd leaf grow together j in fhape they are oval
and pointed, and two inches long. The flowers are blue, and of the
fhape of pea-flowers. The feed-veflel is a pod, four inches long, contain
ing 10, or a greater number of kidney-lhaped feeds. The juice of this plant,
.the old women give in the bleeding fever.
D ulcamund a,
The root grows perpendicularly, is in common 12 inches long, and two
thick, but fometimes it is ilill much longer and thicker; it is brown without,
and red within. The ftalk is ereft, and one inch thick, deeply furrowed,
as are the petioles of the leaves. The plant grows to four feet in height;
there are generally four leaves on the ftalk, growing together in an alternate
manner, and thefe are of a bright green, and cordated, 16 inches in length,
12 in breadth, and highly ribbed. The flower is an umbel, not unlike that
of the elder before it is in full bloom. The root of it, with pepper, is
given in pills to difcufs fwellings; and a cataplafm of the fame applied to
Iwoln parts, is ufed with the like intention.
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