Note (58) — BOOK V.
James Greive translation
58. Malabathrum.) It is a question, whether the modern malabathrum, or Indian leaf, is the same with the ancient. Dioscorides says, some will have it to be the leaf of Indian nard being deceived by the similarity of its smell. But that is not true; for it is a vegetable of a peculiar nature, growing in the fens of India, without any root, the leaves swimming on the surface of the water. Lib. i. cap. 11.