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LUFFA ACUTANGULA, Rash. 



Strainer Vine, Luffa. 



Tropics. A climbing plant, with tendrils; leaves 5-lobed; flowers 

 jellow ; fruit size of a cucumber, drying up so as to leave nothing but 

 a dense framework of fibres with the flat black seeds. (Cucurbitacece.) 



Fruit, deprived of the rind, used for rubbing the flesh in the bath, 

 and for making ornaments. 



LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM, Linn. 

 Club-Moss, Stagshorn Moss. 



Native of temperate and colder regions of the whole world, and high 

 elevations in the tropics. It grows in Jamaica above 4,500 ft. 



This plant is a near relation of Selaginella, the two genera belonging 

 to the order Lycopodiacece. It is not one of the true mosses, though 

 related to them. 



The minute spores are of economic value. 



Lycopodium, in medicine, is used as a dusting powder to excoriated 

 surfaces. In pharmacy, it is used for enveloping pills. 



It is chiefly used by the pyrotechnist, and for producing artificial 

 lightning at theatres. Thrown into flame, it produces an instantaneous 

 flash. 



The principal constituent is a fixed oil, to the extent of 47 per cent. 

 It remains liquid at 5 F. 



MACARY BITTER. See Picramnia antidesma. 



MACLURA TINCTORIA, Don. 

 Fustic. 



Native of Jamaica, and tropical South America. 



A tree with simple leaves, and minute flowers. (Urticacece.) 



Wood exported as a dyewood. 



" A very tough close-grained and heavy wood of a burnt sienna 

 colour, used for felloes of wheels." (Harrison.) 



" On the coast, but on higher grounds generally than the logwood. 

 A large tree with a diameter ranging up to 3 feet and a height of 40 

 feet. It yields a yellow brown timber, tough and close grained, used 

 in carriage building, but largely exported as a dyewood. Average 

 export for past 19 years 2,750 tons, the largest in one year 4,800 tons." 

 (Hooper.) 



MA HOE, BLUE. See Hibiscus elatus. 



MAHOE, CONGO. See Hibiscus clypeatus. 



MAHOE, MOMNTAIN. See Hibiscus elatus. 



MAHOE, SEA-SIDE. See Hibiscus tiliaceus. 



MAHOGANY. See Swietenia mahagonl, 

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