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HORACES. 



[Diclinous Exogens. 



employed for the same pui'poses as Aristolochia Serpentaria. A kind of paper is manu- 

 factured from Broussonetia papyrifera, whose fruit is succulent and insipid. The fniit 

 of Maclm-a aui'antiaca, (the Osage Orange), is as large as the fist, orange-colom-ed, and 

 filled with a yellow foetid slime, with which the native tribes smear their faces when 

 gouig to war. The wood of ]\Iaclui*a tinctoria is the dyewood called Fustick ; it con- 

 tains morine, a peculiar colouring matter; its fruit is pleasant, and used in North 

 American medicine, for the same purposes as the black Mulberry in Em-ope. Accord- 

 ing to Martins, both it and other species of the same genus yield fustick in Brazil. It 

 is to be observed, that the latter name is also given to the wood of Rhus Cotinus. 

 The seeds of Ficus religiosa are supposed by the doctors of India to be cooling and alter- 

 ative. The bark of Ficus racemosa is shghtly astringent, and has particular vu'tues in 

 hsematm-ia and menori-hagia ; the juice of its root is considered a powerful tonic. The 

 white glutinous juice of Ficus indica is apphed to the teeth and gums, to ease the tooth- 

 ache ; it is also considered a valuable application to the soles of the feet when cracked and 

 inflamed ; the bark is supposed to be a powerful tonic, and is administered by the Hin- 

 doos in diabetes. Is it not possible that the Indian poison with which the Nagas tip 

 their arrows, of the tree that produces which nothing is kno^sii, may belong to this 

 tribe ? See, for an account of its effects, Breicster^s Journal^ 9. 219. 



Epicarpurus, Blume. 



Albrandia, Gaudich. 

 Morus, Tournef. 



Ampalus, Boj. 



GENERA. 



Batis, Boxb. I Madura, Nutt. 



? Fatoua, Gaudich. Sycomoi-phe, J/2<;. 



Broussonetia, Vent. 1 Ficus, Tourmf. 



Papyrius, Lam. 



Erosma, Both. 



Dorstenia, Plum. 



Sychinium, Desv. 

 ? Kosaria, Forsh. 



Numbers. Gen. 8. Sp. 1 84. 

 Position. — Caunabinaceee. — Morace^.— Artocarpace^. 



Fig. CLXXXII.— Perpendicular section of the succulent hollow receptacle of Ficus Carica. 



