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VeslingiusV informs us that the Myrobalanus chebula is brought by the Arabian Merchants into Egypt, who receive it from the Indies over the Persian Gulph. That the Plant is a Native of Bisnagar, Camboia and Bengal. And that a Tree of this kind he saw in a Garden at Cairo in Egypt, which bore Fruit.
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In the Island of Amboina there grows a red kind of Wood exceeding beautiful and durable, and is remarkable for having its Grain finely embellished with a variety of Figures. It is made into Cabinets and other Furniture, and sold all over the Indies, at a very extravagant rate.X
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Culitlarvan.
An aromatick Bark of an unknown Tree, brought from the East Indies, and used in Medicine.
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Arundo farcta maxima Atrorubens. Bauh. pin. 17.
This seems designed for the Plant from which the Walking Cane is produced, and of which, I do not find any satisfactory account given by the Botanical Writers.
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Arundo farcta flava. Bauh. pin 17.
The small yellow Cane, which is applied to several Mechanical purposes, but of the Plant which produces it, there is little or nothing known.
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Agalochum Officinarum. Bauh. pin. 393
Lignum Aloes of the Shops.
This Wood which is used as a medicine and perfume, belongs to a Tree which grows
V. Vesling. in a Grin. Vol. 2. p.205.
X. Harris's Voyages Vol. 1 p.291