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cloth, their bark and straw furniture. 12 The juice of the fruit of the 

 common Calabash-tree dyes silk black. 13 The fruit of the Coco de 

 Mono of Topo, Venezuela {Crescentia cucurbitina, hX diffuses, when 

 ripe, an agreeable odour, which attracts monkeys, birds, and other ani- 

 mals partial to the fruit. 14 The medicinal properties of various species 

 are in repute among the natives of various countries, though they 

 have not yet been recognized in our pharmacopoeias. The Philippine 

 islanders consider a decoction of the leaves of Crescentia alata, H.B.K. 



ifoli 



The pulp 



of the fruit of the same species, boiled with sugar, is administered in- 

 ternally by the Mexicans in complaints of the chest (consumption?). 16 

 Haifa drachm of the root of Farmentiera edidis, DC, to one pound of 

 water, is considered as a remedy for dropsy in Mexico. 17 Purgative 

 properties reside in the pulp of the Kigelia pinnata, DC, of which, as 

 Ed. Vogel informs us, the Africans avail themselves; 18 they are also 

 found in that of Crescentia Cujete, L., obtained in Panama by means of 

 incision. 19 The pulp of the fruit of the last-named tree is also used 

 internally in Mexico in inflammatory and bilious diseases, 20 and em- 

 ployed, like that of Tancecium albiflorum, DC., 21 in various countries as 

 poultices. With the fruit of Kigelia pinnata, DC, cut in halves and 

 slightly roasted, the natives of North-eastern Africa rub their skin, as 

 a cure for rheumatic and syphilitic complaints. 22 



■* 



Ascent of Chimborazo, by M. Jules Rcmy, a Frenchman, and his 



travelling companion, an Englishman, Mr. Brenchley. 



[The following interesting account of the ascent of Chimborazo, by 

 two gentlemen, one of whom, M. Jules Remy, distinguished himself pre- 

 viously by his travels in California, is extracted from a communication, 



12 Aublet, Guiana, torn. ii. p. 631. 



13 Seemami, Bot. Herald, p. 183. 



14 W. Birchell, Manor, in Herb. Hook.— BonpL, Jahrg. v. p. 44. 



15 M. Blanco, Flor de Filipinas, p. 490. 



36 Seemann in Hook. Journ. and Kew Misc. vol. vi. p. 276. 



17 Heller, Reisen in Mexiko, p. 414. 



18 Ed. Vogel, Memor. in Herb. Hook,— BonpL, Jahrg. v. p. 44. 



19 Seemann, Bot. Herald, p. 183. 



20 Heller, Reisen in Mexiko, p. 414. # 



21 Lindley, Veg. Kingdom, p. 674.— Heller, Reisen in Mexiko, p. 414. 



32 Kotschy in BonpL, Jahrg. if. p. 304. 



