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obviated, and charges for freight, lessened by reducing the pods to a 

 powder, or preparing an extract from fresh pods. England imports 

 about 4,000 tons a year, and 12,0 ri tons of sumach, but the latter is 

 being replaced by the cheaper divi-divi. [Watt.) 



Von Mueller recommends it for cultivation in salt-marshes. 



" Powder of the pods astringent, anti-periodic, tonic. Dose one to 

 two drachms as an antiperiodic.' 1 {Ward in Watt.) 



CiESALPINIA PULCHERRIMA, Sw 

 Barbados Pride. 



Tropics. A prickly shrub, 5 to 10 feet high, leaves compound; 

 flowers very showy, red or yellow, with very long stamens. (Lcgu- 

 minoxm.) 



Wood, charred, yields an ink. 



Leaves and Floavers : Infusion a powerful emmenagogue. 



Leaves A purgative, used as a substitute for senna. 



Seeds, powdered also medicinal. 



CAJANUS INDICUS, Spreng. 



No Eye Pea (small form), Congo Pea (large form). 



Tropics. A shrub G to 12 feet high ; leaves compound, with 3 leaf- 

 lets ; flowers yellow ; pod, compressed, constricted between seeds 

 (Leguminosce.) 



Leaves, lender, chewed in cases of aptbaD and spongy gums. Mixed 

 in a paste with the pulse, and applied warm, checks the secretion of 

 milk. 



Seeds, esteemed as food, hut apt to prove irritant and laxative, pro- 

 perties which may be minimised by freeing from husk. {Church.) 



CALABASH. See Crescentia Cujete. 



OALOPHYLLUM OALABA, Jacq. 



San i \-M mua. 



Native of "W Indies and tropical America. A lofty tree; leaves 

 simple feather-veined* w * tn delicate veins ; flowers small, white, fra- 

 grant :' berry 1 inch diatL eter " (0"<*>r.) 



Wood "'This wood is verT abundant and on that account much 



used for building, although it is no? *> nside . re <* ;l durable wood; shin^ 

 gles of an inferior class lit from thxs wood - The growth in 



humid localities is about 1 feel in diameter at * he h t ? {t l havc seen 

 trees L50 feel high and as straight as a ship's mast. ' IMarmon.) 



" Especially in : >uth of Trelawi v. but generallv at aii altitude 

 of from 2,000 to 3,000 i'< Tall straighl >wth up to 100 feet and 



more, with a diameter of thr< fields a second-class timber and 



splits into shingles inferioi ral other kinds. It is an impoftjmt 



forest tree S op r.) 



