CEDRELACE^E. 



A large tree 80-100 feet high. Leaves equally pinnated ; leaflets 

 ovate-oblong, acute, undulated, leathery, entire, in about 3 pairs, 

 smooth on both sides. Flowers numerous, in terminal and axillary 

 panicles. Petals whitish. Capsule the size of a peach. Bark very 

 bitter, called Cail-Cedra, febrifugal. The Blacks use it in infusion and 

 decoction, never in powder. Leprieur says it is called Karson Khayi, 

 and employed as a remedy for the fevers so common in the damp dis- 

 tricts of the Gambia. Forsten, p. 12. 



310. Juribali or Euribali Hancock in med. bot. trans. 1834. 

 p. 36. 



A small tree. Leaves alternate, oblong, pointed, on short compressed 

 channelled petioles ; stipules often so much developed as to resemble the 

 leaves, auriculate, rounded, obtuse, stalked. Panicles long, lax, diva- 

 ricate. Calyx entire. Petals 4, lanceolate-ovate, white, spreading. 

 Tube of the stamens campanulate, inflated, 8-toothed, with 8 anthers 

 in its notches. Ovary obtusely conical, pubescent ; style short ; stigma 

 capitate. Capsule ovate, 1-celled, 3-valved, containing a single seed, 

 which is roundish and crowned with a trifid vving,arillate on one side only; 

 it is veined, and resembles the nutmeg in shape, but is only half its size 

 with a fleshy albumen and foliaceous cotyledons. Bark a potent 

 bitter and astringent ; it appears to be far superior to Peruvian bark 

 in fevers of a typhoid and malignant nature. It is cordial and purgative; 

 and is also a powerful diaphoretic, especially if taken warm. Hancock, I.e. 

 It is not known to what genus this belongs. The description given by 

 Dr. Hancock is not sufficient to enable a botanist even to be certain 

 that it belongs to either this order or the last. 



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