Ill i \l I - 



SIM MUIi.M 





projK rti( . bul tivi I In Jamaica plant, which being d 



species, has an inodorous bitter barb which yields ii pr 



water. Ii baa i». d n mark* d thai the infusion i 



acts as a tonic and is used in dyspepsia, diarrhoea, cln 



impaired tone of the alimentary .anal. Nima qua 



in the North of India, The timber of Simaruba amara i 



burgk as resembling U bite Pine, both in colour and quality. Ni< | i 



febrifuge, is obtained from Samadera indica. - 



Cedron), bas lab ly atta m I 



'•■'■> "t the Buccal a old work published in London, 



an antidote for 



rhether on the authority of the Datives, or accidentally d 

 pirati i qoI appi 



" 1 " 1 '' "" bod i' their cruizes on the Mag I d< na, for in I 



the tree was ui d until aboul 1- 15, wl 



itigui ascertained, by comparison, that I I nofPanai 



identical with that of Carthagena, The virtues of it owever, 



years ago, from those fruits imported from the Magdalena, wher< . Mr. 



William Purdie, the plant grows in >n about the villi F San P In 



we Isthmus i1 rally found on the outakirl 



untry, but in greater abundance in Darien and \ a in Pan 



The natives hold it in high and alwi a piece i I • with 



them. When a person is bitten, a little, mixed with watei md, 



and about two grains scraped into brandy, or, in the al it, into v. 



administered internally. By Following this treatment the bil e i 



von. .i n . .us snakes, scorpions, centip 1 other noxious animals, have I 



unattended by dangerous consequences. Do proved highly 1 



Bcial in cases of intermittent fever.- Seemcmn. 



For many remarks upon this order Bee Planchon in Dmd.Jown.Bot., V 

 whose arran ra is as follows :— 



I l; \ 



1. Sl.MAKl'l ! 



a, /.. 

 Samadera G 



\ ..hi 



I. llll. 



I 



. Mill 



ilanco 

 Bimab 



Wl.1. 

 '■ 

 II. inn- . i 

 Simaru 



• 



II. Hai.ki-. • 



Harrisoni ., 8 



lib. 



i 



111 A i 



Allan thus, 



I 

 Pici 



II milt. 

 I.in.ll 



v. 

 i 



Picramnia 



l\ 

 Spathi 



i 

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s. I Ii.n. 17. Sp 



[ON. Zygophylloi -im \ia bac&s. \ .:,!. i . 



Polyt 





