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Specimen of the Plant in his Possession, judges it to be a different Species from that which produces the Black Pepper.
The Plant grows in Malabar, and this White Pepper it produces, he thinks scarce inferior to the Black.
3.
Red Sandal Wood, Or the Red Saunders of the Shops.
This is the Wood of a Tree quite different in Species from that which affords the white and yellow Saunders. It grows in the Islands of Timor and Solor, and is imported only by the Dutch.
4.
Casumunar. off.
The Root or Plant of which there is no certain Account. It has for sometimes been used in Europe as a Medicine, and chiefly in England, yet not so universally, as by some good Judges it is thought to deserve.
It is imported from Malabar and Java.
5.
Faba Sancti Ignatii Off. St. Ignatius's Bean.
The Fruit of a Plant which grows plentifully in the Philippine Islands, of which there is no perfect Botanical description.
6.
There grows an Herb in the Kingdom of Bengal, the Stalk of which is about the thickness of a Man's Thumb, and bears on the Top, a large Button like a Tassel.
This is spun out and furnishes Materials for an excellent kind of Stuff