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be gradually increased till nausea is produced. The bark has 

 also been given in powder in doses of from 1 to 2 scruples : 

 and an extract and a syrup have also been prepared from it. 

 In any of these forms, it is a powerful anthelmintic in cases 

 requiring medicines of that class, and seldom fails to bring 

 away great quantities of worms. The antidote for an over- 

 dose, is lime-juice, the effects of which, I have been informed, 

 are certain, immediately relieving the nausea and delirium. 

 A precaution is given, not to drink cold water during the action 

 of the medicine. 



Tribe X. CassiecB. 

 Stamens free. 



XLIl. MOIIINGA. 



Calycine sepals 5, subequal, oblong, deciduous, 

 concrete at the base. Petals 5, subequal, oblong, 

 with the upper one ascending. Stamens 10, unequal, 

 distinct ; sometimes 5 of them sterile. Style fib- 

 form, acute. Legume siliquaeform, 3-valved : seeds 

 3-gonal, attached to the centre of the fruit, exalbu- 

 minose ; embryo straight ; cotyledons thick, oily, 

 inclosed during germination within the spermodermi- 

 um ; plumule none. — De Cand. 



Trees unarmed ; leaves hi- or tri-pinnated, with an odd one ; 

 racemes panicled. — Moriaiga, Moringu, Mouringou, &c. are names 

 by which the following species is known in the East Indies. 



]. Moringa pterygosperma. Horse-radisJi Tree, 



Legume triquetrous, seeds trigonal, with the angles 

 expanded into wings. 



Murunga, Rheed. 3Ialab. VI. 19. t. 11. — Rtimph. Amb. I. 

 184. t. 74. and 75. — Cuilandina Moringa, Swartz, Obs. 167 — 

 Hyperanthera Moringa, Willd. Spec. 11.536. — Moringa ptery- 

 gosperma, GcBrtn. Fmct. II. 314. t. 147. — De Cand. Prod. II. 

 478. 



HAB. Common. 



FL. Throughout the year. 



A tree 12-20 feet in height, of irregular growth. Root 

 thick, of a soft consistence. Leaves alternate, 3-pinnate, 

 nearly 2 feet in length : pinnte 3-paired with an odd one, 6-10 

 inches in length : pinnules 5-paired with an odd one : leaf- 

 lets petiolulated, of the lower pinnules 5-paired with an odd 

 one, of the terminal pinnule 1-paired with an odd one, elliptic, 



