'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.' [‎488] (541/562)

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This is alio a garden volubnlis, and runs up flakes or trees, bufnot to
a great height. A leaf and a tendril grow at every joint, that is to fay,
regularly at about the diftance of four inches from each other. The leaf is of
a deep green, and made like that of the cucumber., The fruit is about three
inches long ; fharp at each end, and more than an inch in diameter, with
four ridges on its furface, running from one end to the other, rough, and
ferrated, like a cock's-comb. It is a cucumber, and eaten by the^nadves
in their curriet.
Burnee.
This is a fmall plant, which grows to about eight inches in height; it
is found in watery places. The ftalks are fingle, ered, and fucculent •,
the leaves grow thick on the plant, are fuboval, and one third of an inch
in length. The juice of this, they tell me, they give in old fevers, by
which I believe they mean confumptions.
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It appears to me, that this is the Dogwort Cotton. This plant grows
to fix feet in height and more: it is bufhy, and many ftalks arife from
one root, which ftalks are (lightly dividedyet fometimes I have feen only
a fingle ftalk to rile from the root, and then it has fpread fo much, as to
give the appearance ol the plant's being a fmall tree. The leaves are foft,
and flefliy ; of a pale (Lining green above, whitifh, and cottony below; the
limbs are alfo foft and fpungy. The flowers grow in an umbel on the top,
and on the divifions of the branches; there is no calyx, and the corolla is
fingle, bell-fhaped, with the upper part divided in fix places, down to the
tube ; thofe lie horizontal, are flefhy, and of a fine purple colour. The
ftamina are fix filaments, joined by a membrane in the center, on the top
of which is a round, flatted, ftellated anthera. The fruit is an oblong, flelhy
pod, three inches long, containing fome round black feeds, and is full of a
cottony matter. Kvery part of this plant, on being broken, emits an hot
pungent milk, which the natives mix with oil, and with it rub the hands
tor cure of the itch ; I have feen them ufe it for the fame purpofe without
oil.
G ualia. ,
1 he root oi this is very large, brown without, white within ; foft and
uccuient. The ftalk is round and woody, and runs a long way amongft
buihes •, the leaves grow at every joint, attended by a tendril, are hairy, and
oi: a pale green colour. The root bruifed, is ufed as a cataplafm to. cure
any pains ot the joints, thofe proceeding from the gout excepted.
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