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CHAP. I. l\IATERIA <strong>INDICA</strong>. 13<br />
ALPAM (Malealei).<br />
XII.<br />
This I have given a place here on the authority of<br />
Bartolomeo, who, in his" Voyage to the East Indies"<br />
(p. 4] 6.), informs us, that it is the name of a shrub<br />
which grows on the Malabar coast, and which he<br />
can, with certainty, call an "antidote to poison;"<br />
the root, he says, is pounded and administered in<br />
warm water. What it is, I had not ascertained on<br />
leaving India; but, so recommended, it will, I trust,<br />
ere long be brought under scientific investigation.<br />
I n all probability the appellation has been incorrectly<br />
printed.<br />
XIII.<br />
AMAUM PATCHEH ARISEE (Tam.) Pillbearing<br />
spurge.<br />
EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA (Lin.)<br />
Cl. and Ord. Dodecandria Trigynia. Nat. Ord.<br />
Tricocca>. Pillen-tragende lVolfimilclt (Nom. Triv.<br />
Willd.).<br />
Of tIle essential character, Willden ow says, "Cor. 4;<br />
s. 5-petala, calyci insidens; cal. ] -phyllus, ventricosus;<br />
caps. 8-cocca" (Spec. Plant. ii. 959.).<br />
This species of spurge does not grow more than a<br />
foot high, with '-' a tender, simple, round stem, covered<br />
with reddish brown hairs; the leaves are opposite,<br />
bluntly, and scarcely serrate; peduncles an inch
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