'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎485] (538/562)

Ill (it.
[ 485 I ^
grow in pairs oppofite each other, the whole length of the branches. The
flowers I have not feen. 1 he truit, which is of an oblong figure, is about
two inches in length, and three fourths of an inch broad, o-reen, fucculent
and contains lome imall feeds ^ tney are alio alated lengthways, and have
tour rows of membranes. The whole of the fruit is acid. They ufe the
fruit in their curries and tarts, and lay, they alio give the juice of it in the
gout.
African Plant.
This is the fame as that which we have in England, and needs no defcrip-
tion.
Mouselle.
This tree grows to a tolerable fize, and makes an agreeable fhade in
walks and gardens, eafily yielding to be cut into any form, that fancy fhall
diftate. Its bark is brown, the leaves of a deep green above, bur of a
paler below, they are rigid, very bright, fhining and thick. Flowers are a
radiated green calyx, on which is the pyramidal germen j the corolla is a
fhort white tube over the germen, with its upper part radiated : thefe fall
off in great plenty every day, are of an agreeable fweet fmell, and the
Gentoos are very fond of them, fcringing and hanging them about their
necks, arms, &c. The fruit is a pale red cherry, of the fize and fhape of
our white heart cherry, but the footftalk is not quite fo long: the cherry
grows in the alas of the leaves, and taftes like hips, containing a ftone,
whofe fhell is tender, brown, fmooth, and fomewhat longer than our
cherry-ilone, but in the fhape of the almond's : the kernel is bitter and
oleous. With the oil extracted from this kernel, the natives rub the part
that has been bitten by the Scorpion or Centipede, and which it foon curer.
The crows are very fond of this fruit.
CuRRINGE.
This is a pretty large tree, but bufhy ; it is planted in fome of the
gardens at Bengal, but for what ufe 1 could not learn i the rigid leaves are
of a dark fhining green colour, and grow on woody pinna: upon the limbs
and branches •, there are four pair and an odd one on each pinna j neither
the flower nOr fruit have I feen.
V olubiles.
Thefe grow in fuch plenty, and there is fo great a variety of them
both in the hedges and gardens, that the natives have fcarcely proper
names for any, but thofe which are ufed in food or medicine.
Sett Moorga.
This plant is of the Aloe kind. The root is double, and like a pair of
horns, a foot in length, fucculent, and as thick as a man's finger, reddifh
^ without.