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ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA, Linn. 



Allamanda. 



Tropical America. A climber, with, opposite leaves and large yellow 

 flowers. (Apocynacece.) 



Leaves considered a valuable cathartic in moderate doses. 



ALLIGATOR APPLE. See Anona Paltjstris. 



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ALLIGATOR WOOD. See Guarea Swartzii. 



ALLIUM CEPA, Linn. 



Onion : Wild in Turkestan. Cultivated everywhere. (Liliacece.) 

 Bulb used as food, and medicinally. 



ALLSPICE. See Pimenta officinalis. 



ALOE VERA, Linn. 



Aloes. 



Northern Africa. Cultivated in tropics. A plant with thick suc- 

 culent leaves and yellow flowers. (Liliacece.) 



Root supposed to be efficacious in colic. 



Leaves contain a bitter juice, which drains from the cut end, and 

 dries slowly in the sun. 



Juice fresh is said to be "cathartic, cooling and useful in fevers, 

 spleen, and liver disease, enlarged lymphatic glands, and as an external 

 applicant in certain eye diseases." (Watt.) Pulp useful for boils, as an 

 emmenagogue, and in veterinary medicine. 



Juice inspissated is the Aloes of commerce. The best form of the 

 drug is Socotra Aloes derived from Aloe Perryi and others. In 

 small doses, stomachic and tonic ; in larger doses, purgative, and use- 

 ful in atonic dyspepsia, jaundice, etc. 



The leaves yield a fibre. 



AMYRIS RALSAMIFERA, Linn. 



Mm m\i.n Tor( ii Wood, Rose Wood. 



Native of Jamaica, Cuba, Venezuela, and N. Granada. A small tree, 

 6 to 15 feet high, pinnate leaves, and white flowers. The branches, 

 when bruised, emit a strong smell. ( Bur 8er (teem.) 



Wood. Capital posts for going in the earth; they readily split up 

 into strips and arc used by the peasantry for torches. (Harrison.) 



AMYRIS, sp. 



Rose Wood 



" A hard close-grained wood with aromatic smell, grows to two 

 Of three feel in diameter, might be used in the manufacture of small 

 articles, Like the far famed sandal wood." (Harrison.) 



