RUBIACE®. 805 
Jeomplaints. Roxburghin his Coromandel Plants observes 
he nut bruised and thrown into pools where there are 
intoxieates them, in the same way that Coceulus Indieus 
. This practice may be observed in the Concan, where the 
t is well-known asa fish-poison, and is also mixed with 
rn tv preserve it from insects. Mr. Moidin Sheriff, in his 
upplement to the Pharmacopeeia of India, says:—“ It is cer- 
inly not a good emetic if used as is generally done by powder- 
ng the whole nut. The thick shell and the numerous hard 
eds are not emetic at all; indeed, if anything they are slightly 
itant; only the dry pulp or mucus, which is the least part of 
the nut, possesses emetic and nauseant properties. The contents 
two to three nuts are generally a sufficient dose; they 
ould be bruised, macerated for ten or fifteen minutes in 
the administration of warm water. The ejected matter 
ins a large quantity of frothy mucus.” Mr. Sheriff has 
d the drug a good substitute for Ipecacianha in dysentery. 
recommends the powdered pulp as the most convenient 
for administration. Dose, 40 grains as an emetic; 
to 30 grains in dysentery,. according to the. severity of the 
ase, In colic the fruit is rabbed to a paste with rice water 
d applied over the navel. 
escription.—The dried fruit is about the size of a crab 
ple, globular or oval, reddish brown, crowned with the 
of the calyx, and ina fresh state has a strong odour of 
cently tanned leather. It consists of a pericarp and shell, 
hich contains the seeds embedded in pulp. The shell is hard 
md thick, 2-celled, the dividing septum being thin and mem-— 
amous. The pulp is grey, and has a nauseous taste and smell. 
seeds are small and oblong, about 1} lines in length; — 
ily flattened, very hard: and of a brown colour, and 108 
