'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.' [‎477] (530/562)

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G u ava.
This tree grows to the fizc of our apple-tree. The bark is of a light
brown: the leaves grow in pairs along the branches, are of a bright green,
thick but foft, (not eafily to be diftinguillied from the cuftard-apple other-
wii'e than by their growing oppofite to one another.) The fiower is monope-
talous, cup-like, white, and full of (lamina. The fruit is of the fize of a oolden
pippin, green at fir ft, bur when very ripe, yellow without, and generally red
within : this is a pleafant but mealy pulp, containing a great number of fmall
hard white feeds of the fize of a large pin's head. The fruit, before it is
quite ripe, is very aftringent, if eaten with the fkin. It is efteemed a good
fruit, but the imell of it is not agreeable to every one.
Bier.
This grows to the fize of our largeft plum-tree, and is a good deal like
it. The leaves are of a pale dirty green, almoft white below, where it is
alio fomewhat hairy. - The tree has many fpikes. The flowers are
fingle. The fruit a plum of the fize and fhape of a yellow bullace,
but cats more like an apple than like a plum. It grows in every part
of India.
G um A rabic.
Some of thefe grow to large trees. The bark is brown without, but
reddilh within, and yields a great quantity of gum. There are three forts of
thefe trees, all of which are full of fharp fpines, and the leaves are altogether
al ke, except that fome may be a little longer than others. The flowers
grow on foot-flalks from two to five inches long, are round, yellow,
and of a fine fmell, and refemble the tufts on the hangings of old-
fafhioned beds. The fruit are not all alike; the ift fort, or thofe which
grow on the Ihorteft peduncles, are oblong, round, black pods of the fhape
of that of a pea, three inches long, and of the fize of a man's little finger,
each containing five or fix round, dark brown feeds. 2d fort grows on
fomewhat longer peduncles from different parts of the branches like the
former, and the fruit is an oblong flatted pod, in length three or four inches,
and half as broad, containing five or fix dark brown flatted feeds, with the
impreffion of a heart, or rather of the letter V on each fide of them. On
the 3d fort, the flower grows on fpikes at the end of the branches, and the
fruit is a flat pod full 12 inches long, appearing like a ftring of buttons, and
contains 10 or 12 round flatted feeds, convex on each fide; the pods are of
a whitifh hoary green, very gummy, and hang on the fpikes in clufters.
With thefe pods, and the fruit they call Packekaile, the Indians tan and
dye their leather.
L ien C auta.
This is a moderately large fpreading tree. The bark is of a bright brown,
and fmooth. The branches are full of fliort fpines. The leaves a pale green.
Flowefs,