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ascarides and the round worm. The dried berries are said to 

 have a similar eflFect. 



The pulp of the ripe fruit, mixed with lard, forms an ointment 

 for Tenia. The ripe fruit also yields a valuable bitter fixed oil, 

 which is administered internally for worms, and employed ex- 

 ternally to foul ulcers, and as a liniment in rheumatic and neur- 

 algic affections. There is a case of hysteria related in the 

 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, 

 (Vol. I. p. 123.) by G. Skipton, Esq., in which a decoction of 

 the leaves of the M. azadiuachta was given with the best 

 effects. As the species we have been describing has neai'ly 

 similar properties, a trial might be made of a similar prepara- 

 tion of its leaves. 



It is mentioned in the third volume of the Transactions of 

 the Medical Society of Calcutta, that Dr Piddington had 

 obtained from the M. azadirachta, a bitter febrifuge principle, 

 in the form of small white shining crystals, which he styles 

 Azadirine. There is no doubt but that it also might be pro- 

 cured from the plant before us. 



A gum may be obtained by making incisions in the bark. 

 The branches being long and supple, it has been proposed to 

 employ them in making hoops. 



II. Trichilta. 



Calyx 4-5 toothed. Petals 4-5, ovate or suboblong. 

 Stamens 8—10 ; filaments either subclistinct or closely 

 united into a tube, antheriferous internally at the 

 apex. Capsule 3-valved, 3-celled (rarely 2-valved, 

 2-celled), with the valves septiferous at their middle ; 

 cells 1-2 seeded. Seeds baccato-arillated, exalbumi- 

 nous : embryo inverted : cotyledons 2, very thick. 

 — De Cand. 



Shrubby trees. — Name, from rpy^a ternary, from the circum- 

 stance, that nearly all parts of the plant are produced in threes. 



1. Trichilia Sloanei. Sloane*s T'richilia. 



Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets 3-4-paired ovato- 

 lanceolate or elliptic acuminate, racemes axillary to- 

 wards the ends of the branches, filaments cohering 

 into a tube for Jths of their length villous. 



Prune forte affinis arbor, folio alato, flore herbaceo pentape- 

 talo racemoso, Sloane, 11. 128. t. 220. f. 1. — T. hirta? Sicartz, 

 Ohs. 171 — De Cand. Prod. I. 622. 



