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antiseptic than thai ot' the Cinchona oflicinalis. It is considered to be a good 

 antidote fur the bite of snakes. It is stated that the honey collected from the 

 tlowers is poisonous, and that its effects, though less alarming, arc analogous to 

 those produced from the honey of the yellow jasmine ((ielscnium nitidum.) 

 The flowers are extolled as being a sovereign remedy agahist asthma. 



