a sort of bark of a tree which grows on the Coromandel coast in the East-Indies. It is recommended in a letter to Dr Monro, in the Medical Essays, as a specific in diarrhoeas. It is to be pounded into a fine powder, and made into an electuary with syrup of oranges; and the bark should be fresh, and the electuary new made every day, or second day, otherwise it loses its astringent but grateful bitterness on the palate, and its proper effects on the intestines.