BY F. M. BATLET, F.L.S. 5 



inside and causing inflammation. Eoots used in India as a 

 remedy for rheumatism. 



Ahitilon indiciwi, G-. Don. A tall shrub with roundish toothed 

 leaves, softly downy, flowers yellow, capsule hairy, widely spread 

 in tropical Australia, Asia, and Africa, is used in India as the 

 maUow is in Europe, as an emolient. 



TTrena lohata, Linn. A tall handsome shrub, with velvety 

 roundish obtusely-lobed leaves, and pinkish axillary flowers, 

 succeeded by carpels covered with hooked bristles. This shrub, 

 which belongs to the tropics of both the new and old worlds, is 

 commonly seen in Northern Queensland, and may be also met 

 with in some of the gullies of Taylor's Eange, near Brisbane. 

 In Brazil a decoction of the root and stem is used as a remedy for 

 the windy colic, and the flowers as an expectorant in dry and 

 inveterate coughs. 



Ca/ra/pa moluccensis, Lam. A small tree with pinnate leaves of 

 two to six opposite leaflets of a coriaceous texture. It is found 

 on our tropical coast and is of crooked growth. The tree which 

 belongs to Meliacem is conspicuous from its large round shaddock 

 like fruit, which contain four to six large irregular-shaped seeds. 

 It is said to possess an extremely bitter principle. The seeds of 

 other species yield valuable oils. Our Eed Cedar is another 

 Meliaceous tree of value not only for its timber, but for its 

 medicinal qualities. Thus, under its botanical name, Cedrela 

 Toona, Eoxb., we find the bark spoken of as a powerful astringent 

 and though not bitter, is said to be a good substitute for 

 Peruvian Bark in the cure of remitting and intermitting fevers, 

 particularly when joined with a small portion of the powdered 

 seed of Guilandina Bonduccella, Linn., another of our plants which 

 will be noticed in its proper order. In Java, according to Dr. 

 Blimie the bark of this cedar is used with great success in the 

 worst epidemic fevers, diarrhoea &c. It has been also used with 

 advantage in dysentery, in the last stage when the inflammatory 

 symptoms have disappeared. Some consider it especially useful 



