CEDRELACE.S:. 



10-toothed ; each tooth bifid ; anthers 10, oval, arising from inside the 

 tube below its crenatures. Bark an efficient remedyfor the dangerous 

 jungle fever of India, when Cinchona produces no effect. It has also 

 been employed successfully in India in bad cases of gangrene, and in 

 Great Britain in typhus fever, and as an astringent. (See Duncan 

 tentam. inaug. de Soymida, 8vo. Edinb. 1794.) 



CEDRELA. 



Calyx short, 5-cleft. Petals 5, erect, keeled or plaited in the 

 inside down the middle. Stamens and pistil on a common stalk. 

 Disk adnate with the stalk, glandular, 5-ribbed, concrete between 

 the ribs with the interposed plaits of the petals, 5-lobed. Fila- 

 ments 10, inserted on the summit of the disk; the 5 alternate 

 with the petals subulate, fertile ; the other 5 very short, sterile 

 or wanting. Ovary on the top of the stalk and disk, 5 celled: 

 ovules 8-12 in each cell. Style short, deciduous: stigma pel- 

 tate, obscurely 5-angled. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, dehiscing 

 from the apex ; valves separating from the persistent 5-angled 

 axis by the dissepiments. Seeds pendulous, winged downward. 



Leaves pinnated ; leaflets opposite or nearly so, many-paired, 

 unequal-sided. Panicles terminal, large, pyramidal. Parts of 

 flowers occasionally quaternary and senary. 



307. C. Toona Roxb. corom. iii. t. 238. fl. ind. i. 635. DC. 

 prodr. i. 624. A. de J. Meliac. 103. W. and A. i. 124. 

 C. febrifuga Blume Bijdr. 199. Forsten diss. de Cedrel. c. ic. opt. 



Bengal, Java. 



Trunk erect, of a great size and height. Bark smooth, gray. 

 Branches numerous, forming a large, beautiful shady head. Leaves 

 alternate, abruptly pinnate, drooping, from 12 to 18 inches long. Leaf- 

 lets in from 6-12 pairs, opposite, or nearly so, obliquely lanceolate, 

 waved at the margins, smooth, tapering to a long acute point, quite 

 entire, or slightly and distinctly toothed. Panicles terminal, nearly as 

 long as the leaves, pendulous, divaricating, much branched, smooth. 

 Bracts minute, deciduous. Flowers very numerous, small, white, 

 fragrant like honey. Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, oblong, ciliated, curved 

 over the stamens, and keeled inside near the base. Hypogynous glands 

 5, large, hairy, orange-coloured ; filaments erect, inserted into the 

 centre of these, rather shorter than the petals. Ovary superior, oblong ; 

 stigma large, flat, 5-lobed. Capsule oblong, rather larger than a field 

 bean, 5-celled, 5-valved; the valves opening from the apex and falling 

 off with the seeds. Seeds numerous, imbricated, winged. The bark 

 a powerful astringent, and though not bitter, a tolerably good substi- 

 tute for Peruvian Bark in the cure of remitting and intermitting fevers ; 

 particularly when joined with a small portion of the powdered seed of 

 Caesalpinia Bonduccella (Kutulegee of the Bengalese), which is a most 

 powerful bitter. Roxb. The bark was used in Java by Dr. Blume, 

 with much success in the worst epidemic fevers, diarrhrea, and other 

 complaints ; Horsfield also applied it in various cases of dysentery, 

 but in the last stage, when the inflammatory symptoms had disappeared. 



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