>?t! ri^OKTUS JAMAICKNSIS'. amtidote 



essential oil, to the quantity of an ounce or more from three pounds. They also yield 

 on oil upon expression. 



The essential oil obtained from a-niseeds is the only ofHcinal preparation in the Pliar- 

 macoott'ia; it is grateful to the stomach, and may be taken in a dose of t\venty drops. 

 In ui-eases of tiie i^reast the oil is prcfei'red, but in flatulcniics and colics the seeds itl 

 substance are said to be more effectual. It is asserted that the oil is a poison to pigeons, 



Anthemis See Ox-eye. 



AxTHOLYZA S'ee Ethiopian antholvza, 



AnTIDESM.A .Jte MAJOE-BlXrER. 



ANTIDOTE COCOON. . FEUILLEA. 



Cl. 22, OR. 5. Dicecia pcnlandria. NaT. OR. Cuciirbitacetc, 



This is named in Iioaour of Lewis Feuillee,, a French Franciscan monk, who travel* 

 led in Peru. 



Gf.x. CHAR. The male calyx is bell-shaped, half five-cleft ; the corolla is also half 

 five-cleft and wlieel-shaped ; there are five stamina with twin roundish anthers, 

 and the nectarium consists of five filaments, connivcnt or closing,, placed alter- 

 nately v^ith the stamina : the female calyx and corolla as in the male, but with a 

 green geiTn at the base ; stigmas heart-shajjed, styles three or Aac, and the fruit 

 is a large trilocular apple, wiili a hard bark; the seeds generally twelve, flatted, 

 and orbicular. Tliere are two species, one a native of tlie East the other of the? 

 West Indies, but it is doubtful whetlier they be distinct, Swartz aJhrms that they 

 are not as much as varieties^ 



COREiFOLTA. 



Ghandiroha rel nhandiroba brasiliensihiis. Sloane, v. 1, p. 200.. 

 Foliis crassiorihus gtabris, quandoque cordatis, qiunidoquc trilnbts,. 

 Browne, p. 374. 



Leaves heart-shaped angular.. 



The stem is sufFrutcscent at bottom,, divided at top, with herbaceous. branches,. 

 Climbing frequently to the tops of trees, roundish and very smooth. Leaves petioled, 

 idternate, usuall}' cordate, when more adult, cordate iobed, the lower ones three-iobed,, 

 the lobes angular, thick, nerved, vety smooth on both sides. Flowers racemc.l, dusky, 

 yellow. Racemes in the male divaricating,, loose, the subdivisions almost upright, yU 

 ternatc, many-flowered; flowers pcdicelled. Caly.K five-parted, the parts are con\ex^,. 

 spreading, ovate, dusky. Filaments converging at the base, refie.v, club-shaped,, 

 gibbous, with a sort of head at the end to which the anthers are fastened ; these are 

 ovate, open longitudinally in the middle, and are whitish. 'i'he five other threads ' 

 forming the nectary are yellow. 



Barbara gives this plant its old name o'i nhandiroba, or f^handiroha, and says, " The 

 first time I met with this jilant was in St. Thomas in tiie Vale, in that part called Six- 

 teen-Mile ^Valk, in Jamaica; where I saw it climbing and running u;i to the to])s of 

 very high trees. It happened to have its fruit upon it. Its leaf \ cry much resembles 



the 



