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shops, and might here be employed in alterative decoctions, 

 did we not come at it on such moderate term-. 



DKECIA DEC ANURIA. 

 145. Cahica Pm'.u \, L. — Fopani Tree. 



This tree is of speedy growth, bearing fruit in less than 

 a year, and being often fifteen or twenty feet high. 



The trunk is grey, has a large pith in the middle, and 

 when dry the wood is of a reticular form, and good for no- 

 thing. Towards the top it sends off long spreading leaves, 

 in form of an umbrella. The blossoms grow amongst the 

 leaves ; those of the male are long and branching, those of the 

 female short and fleshy. 



The popaw fruit is as large, and of the same shape, colour, 

 and taste, as a musk melon. The seeds are enveloped in a 

 jelly, and, on being disengaged from it, look like the grains 

 of black pepper. They taste like the garden cress. 



However salutary when taken into the stomach, the juice of 

 the fruit, or that from the body of the tree, when inoculated 

 into the blood, produces palsy, with obstructions of the liver., 

 and of the other viscera, which are very difficult to cure. 



If a piece of tough meat be washed with water in which 

 the popaw has been infused, it makes it very tender and deli- 

 cate. 



POL YG AMI A MONGECIA. 



146. Mimosa scanuens, L. — The Cacoon, or Mafouloo JVithet 



This climber arises from a brown spongy trunk, as thick 

 as a man's thigh. It runs up, and covers the highest trees, 

 and running from one to another, extends over some acres of 



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