'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.' [‎490] (543/562)

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E onadda , W ild G inger.
This plant grows to five or fix feet in height. The root is like gmger •
the ftalk a culm, pale green, and a Ijttle woolly i flower, a club of 3 fix
inches in length, and formed like that of the other ginger.
B isnagullie.
The root is tuberous and white; from which arifes a fingle flender flalk
naked about two feet from the ground, then at alternate diftances of half
an inch, grow thf leaves, which are, of a pale green colour, and
fupport themfelves by the tendrils at their ends; they are continued
to the height of 10 feet, growing in an alternate fucceffion, as well
on the divifions as flalk. Several flowers grow at the extremities of thofe
dlvifions, on footftalks of five inches, three leaves forming a cup for them,
which fliut up in the day, and open at night; thefe are compofed of fix
graffy flowers, one half inch long, of the fhape and colour of the plant.
The flamina are fix green fubulated filaments^ of half an inch in length:
antheras are double, almoft as long as the filaments, yellow, and affixed by
their middle to the top of them. The germ is oblong, divided in three
parts, and the ftyle fubulated and bifid. The root is efteemed a great
cooler.
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L illicant.
The foot of this plant is tuberous, as warm as ginger, but more pleafant,
of the length and thicknefs of a man's little finger ; the outfide is whitifh, the
infide of a beautiful blue, with a mixture of clear white. The ilalk is a
culm, furrounded by leaves, of a deep green colour, with fome purple
on their^ edges, 1 his remarkable root grows at Betjgal, and is given,
mixed with pepper, in the form of pills for the fore throat in the fmall-pox >
which they lay it certainly cures. Mr. Thomas procured fome roots, and
carefully dried them with the defign of bringing them to England, but the
damp in the fhip foon deflroyed them.
M ac C alfull.
The root is fibrous. The (lalk procumbent, and takes root at the joints.
The leaves are of a pale green above, ftill paler below, and feel rouah »
they grow on petioles of three inches. The fruit is an apple, as hi? as
a large lemon •, ot the lemon's fhape, with a beautiful orange colour, con
taining a number of flat oval feeds, nearly half an inch in length, and a
deep green pulp. 1 he root pounded, and mixed with ginger, is given
in fevers. 1 here is another of the fpecies, much like this in its leaves
and fruit, and which runs up very high on walls, trees, &c.
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R actagaroo.
The r oot of this creeper is near a foot long, one fourth of an inch thick,
white and fibrous within. The ftalk is round, procumbent, and green.
5 Leaves,