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According to Loureiro, the seeds and leaves of Muricia 1860-62. 

 Cochinchinensis are aperient, and useful in the treatment of Chinese Seeds, 

 tumours and malignant ulcers, and of obstructions of the liver 

 and spleen. The plant is a native of China and Cochin-China ; 



FIG. 2. 



it is not enumerated in the Flora of Hong Kong, 1 and, I 

 believe, has not been obtained by any collector in recent times. 

 There is an indifferent specimen of Loureiro's in the British 

 Museum. 



*/\. W ~j Keue-ming-tsze ; -^F-^/t *9i Tsaou-keu&-ming ; 

 seeds of Cassia Tora, L. (Leguminosce). Tatarinov, Catal. Med. Cassia Tora. 

 Sinens, p. 5 ; Ainslie, Mat. Indica, vol. ii., p. 405. 



Seeds of a cylindrical form, 2 to 3 lines long, pointed at 

 one extremity, rounded at the other, of a dark brown colour, 

 with two light stripes on opposite sides. 



Idlh; Seeds of Aleurites trilola, Forst. (Euphor- 

 Uacece) ; Juglans Camirium, Loureiro. The kernel of the seed Juglans 

 yields abundance of oil. Camirium. 



TH jj 4 Choo-skih-tsze ; the small seed-like nuts or 

 achenes of Brousonetia papyri/era, Vent. (Morece), Paper Mul- Brousonetia 

 berry Tree. papyrifera. 



These are roundish seed-like bodies, somewhat smaller than 

 the seeds of white mustard, slightly compressed and keeled on 

 one side, of a pale brown, or, when fresh, orange colour. The 

 fleshy part of the compound fruit is saccharine and edible ; what 

 virtues the seeds are supposed to possess I do not know. The 



1 Bentham, Flora Hongkongensis, Lond., 1861, 8vo. 



