H0R5S TfORTUS JAMAICE'.N'SIS, S5 



almost insipid ; if kept in a cool place in sand, it retains its qualities for a corvsicieraWe 

 time. The medical ertects of it are to st-imuiate the solids, jtttenuate the jnices, and 

 promote the fluid secretions ; it eeems to extend its action through the wliule habit, 

 and to affect the minutest glands. It has fieqiiently done scinicein some kinds of scur- 

 vies, and other chronic disorders proceeding from a viscidity of the juices, or obstruc- 

 tions of the excretory ducts. S}denham recommends if UkcAvise in dropsies, particu- 

 larly those which fcjllow intermittent fevers, it is also extolled in cases of thestono. 

 Both water and rcctiiied s[)irit e.xtract the virtues of this root, by infusion, and elevate 

 them in distillations : along with the acqueous fluid an essential oil rises, possessinf 

 the wiiole tuste and pungeiic3-'- of the horse raddish. Dr.' Cullen says,' "The root ex 



.ternallv applied readily .inflames the skin, and proves n rubifascient that maybe em- 

 ployed with advantage in palsy and rheumatism ; and, if its application be long conti- 



-nued, it produces blisters. Taken internally, one drachm of tjie root, fr-ssh, scraped 

 down, was enough for four ounces of water, to be infused in a close vessel for two 

 hoars, and niada into a -syrup, with double its weight of sugar; a tea-spoenful of 

 which SiTallowed leisurely, or at least repeated two or three times, has often been 

 found very suddenly eli'ectual in relieving hoarsenesses. Received Into the stomach, 



-this root promotes iligestion, and therefore is properly employed as a coiuliment with 

 animal food. K it be infused in water, and a portion of the infusion be taken with a 

 large draught of warm water, it readily proves emetic, -and may either bo employed to 

 ei;cite vomiting, or to assist the^)peratiQu of emetics." 



KORSK RADDISH TREE. GUILANDINA. 



Cl.10, or. 1. Dtcandriamouogynia. 'Nat. OK. LomeniaceiP. 



"This was so named in honour of Guilandinus, of Prussia, a great traveller, 



. -Gen. char. Calyx a one-leafed perianth ; tube short, turbinate, permanent, \n\k. 

 an oblique- mouth ; border five- parted, nearly equal, spreading, deciduous; di- 



visions oblong, broader on the outside and rounded ; the two upper ones a little 

 shorter, the lowest a little longer; the corolla five unequal petals, inserted into 

 the neck of the calyx ; the uppermost roundish, 'conca\"e, ascending, a little 

 shorter, (but broader, .resembling the vexillum of a papilionaceous 'flower) the 

 rest oblong, broader in front, rounded at the tip, reflex-cpreading, longer than 

 the calyx, and the two lowest a little longer than the middle ones. Stamens, eight, 

 nine, or ten,- subulate filaments, thicker at the base and villose, decumbent, in- 

 serted into the neck of the calyx, shorter than the corolla, unequal ; tiro lower 

 ones gradually longer ; anthers oblong, affixed to the back ; the pistil has an ob- 



I'jng germ, a filiform permanent style, the length of tlie stamens, and a simple 

 stigma; tlie pericarp is a rhomboida,! legume,- the upper suture convex, from 

 swelling compressed, one-celled, with transverse partitions; seeds bon}-, globu- 

 lar-compressed, solitary between the partitions. Two species of this genus are 

 natives of Jamaica, for which see nkkars. The moririga, or horse jadUish treCj 

 has been verj' erroneously referred to this genus, 



" MORINGA. 



~ L^iiarmed, leaves sub-bfpinnate ; lower leaflets ternate, 



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