78 ORD. XXXIX. Tricocce. EUPHORBIA OFFICINARUM. 
luted, it has been found efficacious in lethargy, paralysis, amaurosis, deafness, 
&e. Several other species of Euphorbia have also been used medicinally, 
with good effect. The Euphorbia coroliata is a pretty certain purgative, in 
doses of from ten to five grains; double the quantity proves emetic, and 
generally acts without much violence. The Euphorbia Ipecacuanha is also 
emetic, in doses of fifteen or twenty grains. The seeds of the Euphorbia 
Lathyrus are also both emetic and cathartic, and have been proposed as a 
substitute for Ipecacuanha. The juice of the Euphorbia helioscopia is an 
useful escharotic for destroying warts. Officinal, Euphorbium. 3 
STALAGMITIS CAMBOGIOIDES. THE GAMBOGE TREE. 
: eer ese ERASERS 
SYNONYMA. Stalagmitis cambogioides. Murry App. Med. iv. 645. 
Plenck, Icones Plant. Med. t. 421; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 980; De Cand. 
Prodr. v.1. p. 562. 
Class. Polygamia. Ord. Monecia. 
Nat. Ord. Tricoccae, Linn. Guttifere, Juss. 
Gen. Char. Calyz, Ginn iaved: Corolla, four-petaled. Stamens, thirty, 
inserted into a fleshy, four-cornered receptacle. Style, thick. Stigma, 
four-lobed. Berry, one-celled, crowned by the style and stigma. 
Spec. Char. O. 
THE Stalagmitis cambogioides is a middling-sized tree ; branches opposite 
and divaricated: the leaves are opposite, ovate, entire, smooth, coriaceous, 
rigid, and supported on short petioles: the flowers are hermaphrodite and 
male; the hermaphrodite flowers are in axillary or lateral whorls: the male 
Stowers are either in distinct clusters or mixed with the hermaphrodite; the 
calyx in the male flowers consists of four ovate leaflets, the two exterior of 
which are smaller than the two interior; the petals are four, spreading, 
coriaceous, with ciliated margins, and of a yellow colour: the stamens are 
about thirty, and placed upon a quadrangular, fleshy, receptacle: the anthers 
