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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

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This bud blowes into divers bunches of Flowers, spreading it self open like a Plume of Feathers, each Flower whitish, but very small.

The Roots of this shrub they use for Ropes, splitting them into Thongs, and then making them into Ropes.
[The Capita.] The Capita gauhah, is a shrub never bigger than a mans arm.

The Wood, Rind and Leaves have all a Physical smell; and they do sometimes make use of it for Physic.

The Leaf is of a bright green, roundish, rough, and as big as the palm of an hand.

No sort of Cattel will eat it, no, not the Goats, that will sometimes brouze upon rank poyson.


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