STERCULIACEiE. 



by tough, stringy fibres. Each cell is filled with a pulpy substance, 

 which, when old and dry, becomes pithy, and in this the seeds are 

 immersed. These are kidney-shaped, brown, shining, hard, with a few 

 pale dots, filled within by the white fleshy embryo, whose cotyledons 

 are foliaceous, and singularly convoluted around the inferior radicle. 

 Hooker. — Mucilaginous. Dried leaves in powder found serviceable in 

 diarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. Pulp of the fruit subacid ; its juice 

 considered a specific in the putrid pestilential fevers of the Gold Coast. 

 Fruit a common article of consumption among the negroes. 



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