520 CHLORANTHACEjE. [Hypogynous Exogens. 



of Java employ the roots in infusion, or rubbed up with the bark of Cmnamomum CulUa- 

 watas a remedy for spasms in pregnant women. In hke manner, mixed with such 

 Sunative substances" as Anise and Ocymum, they are adnmaistered with grea 

 success in the malignant small-pox in children. An infusion of the dried root is 

 successfully employed in fevers attended with great muscular debility and a suppression 

 of thf functions of the skin. In a typhus which ravaged certain districts of Java in 

 consequence of long-continued rains following an unusual y protracted dry season the 

 «Woms attendant upon which were extreme debility, a languid pulse, stupor, violent 



Sg S a Sous Evacuations, the roots of this Chlonmthus were of the greatest 

 ser^ce It was again employed most beneficially in a malignant intermittent fever 

 which visited Java hi the year 1824. In such cases the infusion was usually combined 

 with a decoction of Cedrela Toona. The root has the great merit of preserving its 

 Tc L properfefor a long time if properly prepared and there can be no doubt that 

 ?U Tone of the most efficacious of all known remedial agents, wherever there ,s a 

 necessity for continual and active stimulants.-itfume. Endhcher says that the dr.ed 

 branches of Ascarina polystachya, called Earaihau in Tahiti still retain their hot flavour 

 £ the specimens collected during Forster's voyage. Simi ar qualities seem to exist m 



he Hedyosmums, which are used in the West Indies as ant.spasmodics and stomachics : 

 H Ronplandianum is, according to Martins, used in Brazil in mahgnant fevers and 

 pains in the limbs. 



GENERA. 



Hedyosmum. Smarts. Chloranthus, Swartz. 



Tufalla; Ruiz et Pav. Nigrina, Thunb. 

 Ascarina, I'orst. 



Creodm, Lcureir. Pcpendta, Rchb. 



Cryphma, Hamilt. Stropha, Noronn. 



I Sarcandra, Gardn. 



Numbers. Gen. 3. Sp. IS. 



Urticacece. 

 Position.— PiperaceaB.— Chlobanthjcba— Saururacese. 



