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ARTOCARPUS INTEORIFOL1A, Linn. fil. 



Jack Fruh. 



East Indies and Polynesia. A tree, with milky sap, and large fruit. 

 ( Urticacece.) 



Bark yields gum, used as a cement and bird-lime ; and also a fibre. 



Juice applied externally to glandular swellings to promote suppura- 

 tion. 



Wood yields on boiling a yellow dye Timber used for carpentry, 

 cabinet-work, etc. ic Yellow, hard, takes an excellent polish, is beauti- 

 fully marked, ami is one of the handsomest furniture woods "' (Warden | 

 Weight 40 lb 8. per cubic foot 



ASCLK1MAS CURA>SAVICA, Linn. 

 Red II i \i>, Wild Ipe( \< i \mi \. 



Native of W. Indies, Central and tropical S, America. An erect, 

 perennial herb with orange and crimson-coloured flowers, and laro-e 

 seed vessels ; seeds with long white silky hair. (Aselepiadece.) 



Root possesses emetic and cathartic properties ; it is purgative, and 

 subsequently astringent ; remedy in piles and gonorrhoea. 



Leaves juiqe anthelmintic; useful in arresting hoemorrhages, and 

 in obstinate gonorrhoea ; sudorific. 



Flowers juice, a styptic. 



AVERRIIOA BILIMBI, Linn. 

 Bilimbi Trek. 



Cultivated in E. Indies. A small tree, w r ith reddish purple flowers, 

 cylindrical fruit with 5 rounded lobes. (GeraniacecB.) 



Flowers made into preserves. 



Fruit used in curry, and preserved in sugar. 



Juice, made into a syrup as cooling drink in fevers ; and used ex- 

 ternally in cutaneous diseases. 



Juice also used to take iron moulds from clothes, and ink and other 

 stains from furniture. 



AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA, Linn. 

 Cab a m bola, Ca ram ba. 



Cultivated in E. Indies. A small tree, with yellowish-purple 

 flowers, fruit acutely 5-angled. (GeraniacecB.) 



Root, leaves^ and fruit, used as cooling medicine. 



Fruit unripe, astringent, and used as an acid in dyeing, probably 

 acting as a mordant. 



Ripe antiscorbutic. 



Juice removes iron-moulds from linen. Made into curries, pickles, 

 and preserves. 



Wood light-red, hard, close-grained. Weight 401bs. per cubic foot, 



