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ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE, Linn. 



Cashed. 



West Indies and South America. A tree, 30 to 40 feet, with simple 

 leaves, and small flowers. The fruit consists of a nut on the apex of 

 a pear-shaped body formed of the enlarged top of the stalk. 



AVood, red, moderately hard, close grained. Weight 38 lbs. per 

 cubic foot. 



Bark may be used for tanaing. 



Juice from bark, astringent, used as a flux for soldering metals, and 

 as an indelible marking-ink. 



Gum from bark, only slightly soluble in water, obnoxious to insects. 



Kernels are commonly roasted, which improves their flavour. 

 They yield by expression a light-yollow, bland, nutritious oil, superior 

 to olive oil. 



The shell of the nut yields by maceration in spirit an oil, called 

 Cardole, which is black, acrid and vesicating, used as an anaesthetic 

 in leprosy, as a blister in warts, corns, and ulcers, as a local stimulant 

 in psoriasis. 



The ripe fleshy stalk is used as a fruit. 



ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS, Linn. 

 Poor Man's Weather Glass. 



Mountains in tropics. A small herb, with opposite, simple leaves, 

 and blue flowers. (Primulacew.) 



The plant is used in cerebral affections, leprosy, hydrophobia, dropsy, 

 epilepsy, and mania. (Watt.) 



ANAMIRTA COCCULUS, W. and A. 



Cocculus Indicus of Pharmacy. 



India and Malay Is. A climbing shrub. (Mntispermacece.) 

 Seeds yield by expression an oily substance, used in the form of an 

 ointment as an insecticide to destroy pediculi, &c, and in some obsti- 

 nate forms of chronic skin diseases. 



They are intensely bitter, which causes them to be sometimes used 

 as a substitute for hops in the manufacture of beer ; this bitter prin- 

 ciple is poisonous. 



ANANAS SATIVA, Linn. 

 Pine Apple. 



Tropical America. An almost stemless plant with spiny leaves. 

 The flowers are arranged many together into a dense head, the whole 

 developing into a single fruit. (Bromeliacecs.) 



Leaves yield fibre, strong yet fine. 



Fresh juice is an anthelmintic. 



Fruit used fresh, stewed, or preserved. 



Juice is said to " allay gastric irritability in fever." (Watt.) It is 

 diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant, antiscorbutic, and useful in 

 jaundice. 



