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2. F. Carica Linneus.—(Common Fie.) 
Leaves cordate, palmate, scabrous on the upper side, downy on the lower. 
Habitat. Levant. 
Quality. Fruit nutritive, emollient, demulcent, laxative ; apt to disorder the stomach 
when young, acrid. : 
Uses. Food ; heated and split open for gumboil, &c. ; added to barley water in pulme 
nary and nephritic affections ; forms part of the confection of senna. 
Morus. Linneus. 
Calyx 4-parted. Stamens 4, Styles 2. Fruit, a spike, composed of th 
succulent conglomerated axis, calyxes and carpels. 
1. M. nigra Linnzeus.—(The Moiperry TREE.) 
Leaves cordate, ovate, undivided or lobed, serrated, rough ; fruit sessil 
purple. : 
Habitat. Persia. : 
Quality. Fruits alimentary ; allay thirst ; diminish febrile heat ; laxative. 
Uses. A common dessert fruit ; as a colouring substance. 
Dorstenta. Linneus. 
Flowers monecious, naked, plunged in sockets of a plane receptacle 
Stamens 2. Carpels becoming dry loose achenia. ce 
1. D. Contrayerva Linneus.—(Conrrayerva.) Fig. 118. ‘ 
Caulescent ; leaves palmate, with deeply 
serrated or almost pinnatifid acu- 
minate lobes; receptacle somewhat 
quadrangular. : 
Habitat. Tropical America. 
Quality. Rhizome parce tonic, 
retic ; emetic ; keeps . 
Uses. Low fevers, ‘and wha mila stimulants 
are required. 
2. D. brasiliensis Lamarck. 
Stemless ; leaves cordate, oblong, obtuse, serrated 
receptacle circular, crenated. 
Habitat. West Indies and Brazil. 
Quality. Asin No.1; also emetic, Said to be the most energeti¢ 
species. ; 
Natural Order, Artacarpats ; Artocarpacee 
| (V. K., p. 269.) 
Prevailing Quality. Acrid; narcotic. 
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Artocarrus. Linneus. 
Male Flowers in catkins, with 1 stamen and 2 sepals. Females n 
becoming a roundish fleshy tuberculated fruit : 
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Fig. 118.—Receptacle of Dorstenia C 
