'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.' [‎476] (529/562)

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O m r a.
This grows to a large tree, the bark is brown, and yields a gum
which fmells ftrongly of garlic. Before the tree vegetates the limbs look
remarkably blunt-, round their ends fibres of 10 inches long fiioot out in
all diredions, thefe have knobs upon them in which the young fruit are
enclofed, and ibon after thefe .appear, the leaves ftart out amidft the (hoots,
and are pinnated; on each pinna, which is in length 14 inches, there are
four pair of leaves and an odd leaf. The fruit, when ripe, is of the fhape
and fize of our mufcle-plumb, but not eatable.
A aron at Bombay, B erinda at Bengal, and A rmedilla at
drafs, by fome Europeans called G rana R egia.
This grows to be 12 or 14 feet high, and fome get to the fize of
a middling tree •, in the latter fort the bark is brown and fmooth, but the
wood is tender; the ttalk is of a green colour, grows ereft, but alfo tender.
The leaves are fmall, of a bright green, growing on a fingle petiole longer
or fhorter in proportion to the fize of the leaf. The flowers grow in pyra
midal fpikes on the top and large branches of the plant, and after they
drop off the fruit remains, which are prickly green capfules divided into
three lobes, each of which contains an oblong feed about half an inch in
length; the hulk is of a purple colour ftreaked with white. The kernel
is white and oleous, and the Indians make ufe of its oil for burning in their
lamps; they alfo give it to their children in the earlieft ftate of infancy,
looking upon it to be the moft lenient and innocent of all other laxative
medicines. The leaf pounded is often applied to the belly for the cure of
worms. It grows all over India.
T atoon, vide p. 185.
R ussa, vide p. 1 85.
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L aood , by the Gentoos: H erpawl, Moors: C hermelle
Portuguefe.
This grows to a tolerable large tree, and fpreads much. The bark is
whitifh, and wood foft; the leaves, which are of a pale pleafant green, are
pinnated, each pinna is about 14 or 15 inches long, growing very thick
around the ends of the branches. The flowers grow in long fpikes hang
ing down from the body or large branches of the tree, after which comes the
fruit; this, when ripe, is ot a pale greenifh yellow, round, but divided
down to the ftone, (which is hard, and to which the flefh firmly adheres)
in eight lobes, flatted at each end ; thefe the Europeans at Bengal make tarts
of, and call them goofeberry tarts, on account of their refemblance in
tafte to the goofeberry.
G uava.