2Q2 CELASTRINACE^E 



ACTION AND USES. Mild stimulant, but rarely used internally. Dose: 30 gr. 

 (2 Gm.). Used as a filling for carious teeth, and for making paints, varnishes, 

 etc., and formerly official in Pilulae Aloes et Mastiches. 



320. TEREBINTHINA CHIA. CHIAN TURPENTINE. An oleoresin from Pista'- 

 cia terebin'thus Linne, a tree growing on the island of Scio. Incisions are 

 made and the exuding juice is allowed to fall upon smooth stones. It is 

 a greenish-yellow, pellucid, syrupy liquid, hardening to a transparent mass 

 when exposed by the evaporation of its volatile oil; odor fennel-like; taste 

 bitterish. It is used for destroying cancerous growths in which it is claimed 

 to be very efficient. Dose: 5 to 20 gr. (0.3 to 1.3 Gm.), in emulsion. 



321. ANACARDIUM. CASHEW NUT. The fruit of Anacar'dium occidenta'le 

 Linne. Habitat: North America. Kidney-shaped, about 25 mm. (i in.) 

 long, invested with a grayish-brown, finely punctate pericarp containing 

 cardol (a reddish-yellow fixed oil, very active and poisonous). The seed 

 is white and consists principally of a bland fixed oil. Vermifuge and 

 escharotic. 



322. SEMECARPUS. ORIENTAL CASHEW NUT. The fruit of Semecar'pus 

 anacar'dium Linne, growing in Eastern India, a heart-shaped, somewhat 

 flattened nut, about 20 mm. (% in.) long, invested with a blackish-brown 

 pericarp containing a broWn, acrid, vesicating oil. Used as a local irritant. 



ILICINE.E. Holly Family 



Trees and shrubs indigenous to '.tropical and temperate climates. Leaves 

 coriaceous, evergreen. 



323. ILEX OPACA Aiton. HOLLY. (Leaves.) Petiolate, about 50 mm. (2 

 in.) long, leathery, smooth; inodorous; taste mucilaginous, bitter, and as- 

 tringent. They contain a bitter principle, ilicin, and tannin. Demulcent, 

 tonic, and emetic. Dose: 15 to 30 gr. (i to 2 Gm.). 



324. ILEX PARAGUAYENSIS Lambert. PARAGUAY TEA. (Leaves.) Habitat: 

 Brazil and Argentine Republic. Lance-oblong, about 50 mm. (2 in.) long, 

 on a short petiole; surface smooth; margin few-toothed. The mate of the 

 market is a coarse, dark powder, slightly roasted, with a tea-like odor and 

 a bitter, astringent taste. Contains caffeine, giving it properties differing 

 only slightly from tea, for which it is used as a substitute by the natives. 



325. PRINOS. BLACK ALDER. WINTERBERRY. The bark of I'lex verticil- 

 la'ta Gray. Habitat: North America, in swampy thickets. Thin, yellowish- 

 green fragments, usually deprived of the grayish or brownish periderm, which, 

 when present, is marked with whitish patches and black lines and dots; 

 inodorous; taste bitter and slightly astringent. It contains tannin, wax, 

 sugar, resin, starch, chlorophyll, and a yellow, amorphous, bitter principle. 

 Used as a tonic, antiperiodic, and astringent. Dose: 15 to 60 gr. (i to 4 Gm.). 



CELASTRTNACE^E. Staff-tree Family 



Small trees and shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, rarely oppo- 

 site, often coriaceous. A peculiarity of the flowers is that the perigynous stamens 

 are inserted on the disk which fills the bottom of the calyx and sometimes covers 

 the ovary. Fruit a capsule, an indehiscent drupe, or a samara. Seeds furnished 

 with a pulpy, colored, cupular aril. 



326. EUONYMUS, N.F. EUONYMUS 



WAHOO 

 The dried bark of the root of Euon'ymus akopurpu'reus Jacquin. 



BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS. Tall, ornamental shrub, 6 to 14 feet high; leaves 

 petiolate, oval-oblong; flowers dark purple, in fours; pods smooth, deeply 



