CACTALS. 244. INDIAN FIGS. 
1. M. Cajeputi Roxburgh. M. minor Smith.—(Caserut TREE.) 
Leaves alternate, elliptical-lanceolate, 3-5-nerved ; flowers spiked, rather 
wide apart, with a woolly rachis. 
Habitat. Amboyna and other Indian islands. 
Quality. Oil a powerful antispasmodic, stimulant and sudorific. 
Uses. i. a paralysis, cholera, spasms, colic, chronic rheumatism, stimulating __ 
en a 
THE CACTAL ALLIANCE (V. K., p. 741.) 
Patural Order of Cactals. 
Envian sigs (Cactacew.) Sepals and petals 00, undistinguishable. 
Fruit succulent. 
“Natural Order, Entian gigs; Cactacee (V. K., p. 746.) 
Prevailing Quality. Uncertain. 
Opuntia. Tournefort. 
Stems flat, jointed, obovate or oblong, or ovate, at length confluent in a 
terete trunk. 
1. 0. vulgaris Miller —(InDIAN 
Fie.) Fig. 327. 
Spreading ; joints of stem 
ovate ; prickles all of the 
same form, very short and 
numerous. 
ere, aoe states of North America. Commonly cultivated in the south of 
Quality and Uses. Ripe fruit and : . oa 
2 is Sia uine ae agreeable, 7 sold for the eS 
Fig. 327.—Opuntia vulgaris ; 4, its branches; b, a flower. 
