268 



MORACE^E. 



[Diclinous Exouk>s 



employed for the same purposes as Aristolochia Serpentaria. A kind of paper is manu- 

 factured from Broussonetia papyriiVra, whose fruit is succulent and insipid. The fruit 

 of Madura aurantiaca, (the Osage Orange), is as large as the fist, orange-coloured, and 

 filled with a yellow fcetid slime, with which the native tribes smear their faces when 

 going to war. The wood of Madura tinctoria is the dyewood called Fustick ; it con- 

 tains morine, a peculiar colouring matter ; its fruit is pleasant, and used hi North 

 American medicine, for the same purposes as the black Mulberry in Europe. Accord- 

 ing to Martins, both it and other species of the same genus yield fustick in Brazil. It 

 is to be observed, that the latter name is also given to the wood of Rhus Cotinus. 

 The seeds of Ficus religiosa are supposed by the doctors of India to be cooling and alter- 

 ative. The bark of Ficus racemosa is slightly astringent, and has particular virtues in 

 haematuria and menorrhagia ; the juice of its root is considered a powerful tonic. The 

 white glutinous juice of Ficus indica is applied to the teeth and gums, to ease the tooth- 

 ache ; it is also considered a valuable application to the soles of the feet when cracked and 

 inflamed ; the bark is supposed to be a powerful tonic, and is administered by the Hin- 

 doos in diabetes. Is it not possible that the Indian poison with which the Nagas tip 

 their arrows, of the tree that produces which nothing is known, may belong to this 

 tribe ? See, for an account of its effects, Brewster' a Journal, 9. 219. 



GENERA. 



Epicarpunis, Blume. 



Albrandia, Gaudich. 

 Morus, Tournef. 



Ampalus, Boj. 



I Batis, Roxb. 

 j? Fatoua, Gaudich. 

 Broussonetia, Vent- 

 | Papyrius, Lam. 



| Madura, Niitt. 

 [Sycomorphe, Miq. 



i Ficus, Tournef. 

 I Erosma, Both. 



Dorstenia, Plum. 



Sychinium. Pesv. 

 ? Kosaria, F<ir»k. 





Numbers. Gen. 8. Sp. 1 84. 

 Position. — Cannabinacere. — Morace.e. — Artocarpaceu . 



The Abyssinians eat the inner bark of Ficus panifica, which tastes somewhat like 

 bread. — Ach. Rich. 



Fig. CLXXXII. 



Trophis, P. Browne. 

 Sycomorus, 

 Caprificus, 

 Tenorea, 



H rostig K?- , Gasparrini, out of Ficus. 



Macrophthalma, y ' 



Visiania, 



Cyatogyne, 



Galoglychia, 

 Covellia, 



ADDITIONAL GENERA. 



Leucosyke, Zollinger. 



Pharmacosycea, ") 



Pogonotrophe, > Miqiuh out of Fiev 



Syncecia, ) 



Erythrogyne, Visiani. 



See Gasparrini, P.icerche sulla natura del Caprlfico e del Fico, e sidla Capri ficazione, 

 4to, Napoli, 1845. 



Fig. CLXXXII. — Perpendicular section of the succulent hollow receptacle of Ficus Carica. 



