Violali MOKING 



1 " ■ I [uminoua [structure as il appeal I it ghoul 



and parietal placentation are ol tbi same nature, which bo me to I 

 necl with the otl if difference, and considering that il 



ion in excess, it appears to I"- of i aid) rable moment I I 



he Moringadsasa mi mb r of some gn al parietal 

 rer affinity with Violetworte than with any other Order; and to tl I 



adhere, for the following reasons ; the stamens are definite in numb 

 manifestly irregular, the placentation is parietal, and the flowers are nol 

 parte of the fruit being 3, while those of the calyx, corolla, and Btamens 

 in. mi objection to this view is derived from the stamens being pei I it will 



be seen from the altered arrangements introduced into the pr< Bent volume, that 1 i 

 attach much more importance to that circumstance than formerly. But il 

 remembered that Moringa is nol at all more perigynous than Verrucularia and otl 



among Malpighiads, or than Reseda ai ig the Crucifers, or than I 



Poppyworte ; and that, in fact, it maj be very well regarded as standing in tl 

 relation to \ ioletworte as Escholtzia to Poppyworte. While, however, the parietal pla- 

 centation seems to turn the scale in favour of the near affinity of Moringads to \ iolel 

 worts, there can be little doubt that the} also approach the anisomerons Sapindal AJluu 

 . specially Milkworts, in their declinate Btamens, l-celled anthers, and petaloid calyx. 



The Bpecies are native- of the Bast Indies and Arabia. 



The root of the Moringa pterygosperma lias a pungent odour, with a warm, biting 

 and somewhat aromatic taste, verj like Horseradish ; it is used aa a Btimulantin paralytic 

 affections and intermittent fever; it is also employed as a rubefacient Dr. \\ ight 



that it would greatly increase the activity of sinapisms. He adds that a lai 

 quantity of gum, resembling Tragacanth, exud< - from wounds in the hark. The - 



this plant, called by the French Pois Queniques and Chicot, have been used in \ al 



affections. They are the Ben-nuts of old writers,from which the oil of Ben wasi Ktracl 



formerly more fa d than al present It is chiefly used by p the basis 



*■» B scents, and by watchmakers, because it does not readilj B rh,- flowi 



leaves, and tender Beed-veasels, are eaten by the natives of India in their cun 



GENERA. 

 Moringa, Burnt. Anoma, Lour. 



Byperanth, , \ Hypeiate, Smith. BaUinut,] 



Nl Mil bs. 6i ». I. Sp. 4. 



•N. MORINGA! la .. . 



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