60 FAMILY HERBAL. 



The bark of the root is to be taken in powder, 

 or infusion ; it is good against obstructions of the 

 liver and spleen, in the jaundice, and hypochondriac 

 complaints : it is also commended in indigestions. 



The Caranna Tree. Caranna arbor. 



A TALL East Indian tree, and a very beautiful 

 one : the trunk is thick, and the bark upon it is 

 brown and rough ; that on the young branches is 

 smooth and yellowish. The leaves are long and 

 narrow, like those of some of our willow-trees. 

 The flow r er is small and of a pale colour, and the 

 fruit is of the bigness of an apple. 



The resin called gum caranna, is a product of 

 this tree ; it is procured by cutting the branches ; 

 they send it in rolls covered with leaves of rushes ; 

 it is blackish on the outside, and brown wis bin. 



It is suposed a good nervous medicine, but it is 

 rarely used. 



The lesser Cardamom Plant. Cardamomum 

 minus, 



AN East Indian plant, in many respects resem- 

 bling our reeds. It grows to Ui\ or twelve feet j 

 high. The stalk is an inch thick, round, smooth, % 

 green, and hollow, but with a pith within. The 

 leaves are half a yard long, and as broad as a man's 

 hand : besides these stalks, there arise from the same 

 root others which are weak, tender, ana about 

 eight inches high ; these produce the flowers which 

 are small and greenish, ana! after every (lower <i o 

 of the fruits, called the lesser cardamoms, which 

 are a light dry hollow fruit, of a whitish colour, 

 and some what triangular shape ; of the bigness of 

 an hene-bcan, and of a dry substance on. the out- 



