242 A COMPENDIUM OF 
or lanceolate in shape. Flowers hermaphro- 
dite. Fruit composed of eight carpels arranged 
in form of a star; each carpel is not unlike a 
boat in shape, about one-fifth of an inch (5 mil- 
limeters) long, woody, wrinkled, brown in color 
and split along the upper surface; internally, 
smooth and of a brick-brown color, having an 
oval flat seed. Odor somewhat like the com- 
mon anise, pleasantly aromatic, taste sweet, ar- 
omatic and anise-like. The Star Anise contains 
resin, gum and volatile oil which is identical 
with that obtained from the Pimpinella-Anisa- 
tum and considered by some superior. In fact, 
most of the oil of anise is from this fruit. The 
medical effects are anodyne, carminative and 
Stimulating; it is said to increase the lacteal 
flow. Star anise is principally used as a flavor 
and as a source of oil. Origin of the name ob- 
scure, 
Limons, Lemon, Citrus Limonum.—Natural 
order Auranticee. Native of India, but now 
cultivated in many of the sub-tropical countries 
of the world. The cultivated lemon tree is 
somewhat irregular in growth, the foliage un- 
€ven and does not present the handsome and 
pleasing appearance of the orange tree. Flow- 
ers purple externally and white internally, many 
of which are hermaphodite and unisexual, with 
an odor totally unlike that of the orange flower. 
The fruit (Fructus Limonis) is well known to 
€very one in this latitude, but a description is 
not out of place, so we will call your attention 
to the fruit as it occurs in commerce. Lemons 
vary in size, but are usually 2 to 4 inches long, 
Ovoidal in form, having at the apex a nipple- 
