BIXIN BAG, 147, 
name of lukrabo, As will as 48 ee (6,400 Ibs.) of the 
_ seed were exported from Bankok to China in 1871.. It is also 
_ exported thither from Saigon, in Cochin-China: The seed in 
_ question is about’ half the length of chaulmugra seed, but of 
equal diameter. The shell is thicker and harder, and at one 
end is marked with afew radiating slightly raised. ridges, 
whereas that of chaulmugra is quite smooth. 
“Dr. Porter Smith, in his ‘Chinese Materia Medica’ 
_ (1871), p- 140, describes these seeds under the name of 
_lucrubau, and he also considers them as a variety of chaul- . 
mugra. He states that they are described in Chinese books as 
being good for leprosy, lepra, itch, pityriasis, psoriasis, 
syphilis, lipoma, vermes, and chaps on the back of the hands, 
and ‘that calomel and the seeds of Robinia amara are used 
with the lucrubau, both externally and: internally, in the — 
_treatnient of leprosy. In the province of Hupeh:the seeds are 
great repute as a remedy for parasitic pediculi and the itch 
e In Soubeiran’s ‘‘ Matiére Médicale chez les Chinois” 
{p. 221), the seeds are erroneously referred’ to Gynocardia 
Fedorata, 
“In the Kew Report. 1878, p. 30, the seeds under: the: 
ame of dai-phong-tu, are said to be used in Saigon as a ver- 
ifuge after the extraction of the oil. It is added that. M. 
ierre has successfully raised some seeds of. the plant, and 
‘refers it to the genus Hydnocarpus. The species, however, is 
‘not mentioned in: the Kew Report, and no farther information — 
appeared in it upon this point in subsequent years. 
aving had a specimen of the lukrabo seed in the Museum of _ 
© Pharmaceutical Society for some years—without a specific — 
ame—the author recently wrote to.M. Pierre for informa-_ 
on as to the species yielding the seed. In response that 
tleman forwarded for the Society’s herbarium. a specimen 
the plant with flowers and seeds, and the follo: 
resting statement :—“It is a new species, which 
amed Hydnocarpus anthelmintica, Pierre. It is v 
ed to H. alpina, Wight, p. oe but its 
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