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ay require to be aphid with caution ; for if any particles 
q get into the eye; much pain and sass is produced. The 
author of the Makhzan notices the poisonous action of the seed 
_ upon lice, and says that when applied to the os uteri, they 
“cause abortion. The fruit is called Sharifah and K4j in 
-p Rheede states that the ripe fruit mixed with salt is: 
used asa maturant: “The rooti is considered to be a drastic pur- 
_gative, ‘and is administered by the natives in atrabilis or melan- 
‘cholia, much as Hellabore was by the Greeks. In the-Antilles, 
Guiana and Reunion the leaves are employed to make a 
@ prominent ring, with acentral pit, length about five-cighths 
fan inch, breadth two-eighths, albumen large, ruminated, - 
mbryo minute, Leaves oblong, obtuse or acuminate, glaucous 
beneath, 2—3 by #—43 inch, pubescent when young, when | 
dried black, odour when crushed pungent and offensive. 
_ The fruit is globose or ovoid, light green, tuberculous, the 
size of a large apple, and is composed of the numerous, con- 
4 “fluent, ripe carpels, each of which contains one large seed, pulp — 
: ‘sweet, of a delicate spicy flavour, easily digested. , 
3 _ Microscopic structure.—The testa of the seeds is composed of 
et wo sets of yellow rod-like cells, with a narrow cehtral cavity, 
atter appear to be the anea principles. 
* Rheede notices the use of the — fruit in a similar m 
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