'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.' [‎478] (531/562)

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Flowers, which are very fmall, grow on fpikes like an amentum or the
hazel catkins, but longer: the calyx is green. Corolla white and monope-
talous, containing a number of fine filaments a little longer than the corolla.
The fruit I have not feen.
G e-il»
This grows to be a pretty large tree, the leaves are of a bright green
colour, but fomewhat woolly. I know not of any ufe to which the two lad
defcribed
trees i reconverted.
C otton.
This tree grows very large, and fpreads much. The bark is whitilh,
and full of ftrong ftiort fpines. The wood is white and fpungy •, when the
tree is young, it has a beautiful appearance, the limbs then growing horizon
tally, bow down, and around the body of the tree ; at five feet above thefe,
there is another circular row of branches of lefs extent, and in this man
ner they proceed on to the top, fo that the tree appears at a diftance like
a pyramid. The campanulated flower however appears before the leaves,
and is as large as a tulip: its calyx is fingle, green, and flefhy •, corolla is
compofed of five oblong thick petals, which are of a deep crimfon colour:
the ftamina arc 15 fubalated filaments, attached to each other in five
bundles, and thefe again to the petals of the corolla. The fruit is a pod,
of the fhape of a fhort cucumber, divided in three feveral parts, containing
fome roundifh black feeds, involved in a filky cotton-like matter. After
thefe, come the leaves, which are of a pale green colour *, by the time that
thefe are all out, the pods fplit longitudinally in three places, and then the
cotton foon efcapes, and is carried to all places with the wind. Of that
lubftance which adheres to the feeds, they make mattrefies, pillows, &c.
And a decoflion of the leaves, will cure in the laft ftage of a dyfenteric
flux, attended with a prolapfus aniy and other fatal fymptoms, as hath been
experienced by Mr. ^homas^ when deprived of all other hopes of laving
the patient.
M ergoosa , or N un.
It grows to the fize of our large apple trees. The bark is brown, and
rough, yielding a gum of the flavour of garlic. The wood is brown.
The pinnae grow very thick about the limbs and branches, and becaufe
the trees make a good fhade, they are planted in the ftreets and walks
at Cuddalore and Madrafs, on the Coromandel coaft. The leaves are of a
deep green, the flowers grow on fpikes, and are numerous. The fruit,
when ripe, is yellow, half an inch long, and of the fhape of an olive cut off
at its end ; thefe are very foft, and almofl infipid : they grow in thick
bunches, and contain a fmall oblong hard kernel, of which they make a
very
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