Rosai fab U i:.i. 



'"' '• '■ ■'-" l - :i1 " 1 R«*" I" of commerce; tl,. I 



Usus; die Furze and the Br a, both the pride of tin 



Europe; the Bean, the Pea, the Vetch, th. l 



articles ol culture bj the farm. 



and Senegal, Kino, Senna, Tragacanth, and i 



the moat useful ol all dyes, are products ol otlier sp 



neral indication of the purposes to which Leguminous plant 

 is this, however, to be borne in mind, in regarding the qualiti. - ol d i 

 point of view ; ra. thai upon the whole it must 

 those species which are used for 'food by man or animals ai 

 rule: die deleterious juices ol the Order no, 

 concentrated to prove mj uncus, and being, in .a,-,, replaced u 

 either sugar or starch, rhis will becom. more apparent fi 

 Hliu-h now follows, 



Papilio.n i< 

 II ife in this part of the Order that we principally find with nutrition 



least wholesome qualities; thus Qover Medick, Lucerne, rrefoil, Ac, an 

 fodder plants, as are also Samtfoin.Ormthopusor Sei radiha, various 

 junce^Desmomumdinnsum,Indigoferaenneaphylla,&c., in differ 



-— I be seeds ol many are comi i articles ol I I. under the nai 



the most remarkable is the Arachis hypogsea, or under-ground 

 Kidney-bean, whose pods are forced into the ground after the 

 flowering has been accomplished. This and the Voandzea 

 are verj largelj cultivated by the African , who call 



the Arachis, Munduli. The s tain a very large quan- 



tity of oil. More common kinds of pulse are Peas B< 



Lentils, Pig i-peas (Cajanus), the b- ■ ds of various - 



Dolichos, Phaseolus, &c It is, however, to be n marked, that 

 they arc often very unwholesome; th< roots oi Phaseolus 

 dangerously narcotic, as will 1 e Been hereafter. The ripe 

 sofLathyrus Aphaca, called by the French Vesce cultive, i , .v X1 , 



narcotic and produce excessive headache, butwh< 

 they are eaten without inconvenience; and Christian tells us that flour in which the 

 - oi Lathyrus ( icera have been ground up is poisonous. Beans themseh 



be given to horses ... much quantity without bad effect! nutritious or - 



qualities in other parte we have several useful instances Tl 



(Glycj-rrhiza glabra) contain an abundanc a sweet mucilagii 



esteemed as a pectoral, but it is sub-acrid : similar qualities an 



alpinum roots, and those ol Glycyrrhiza echinata and glandulifera 



precatonus poss. ss exactly the properties of the Liquorio -root of I 



they are found demulcent, fnose of Dolichos tuberosus and I 



and Lathyrus tuberosus, are wholesome f 1. A kind of Manna is t 



ol Camels-thorn, related to Alhagi Maurorum. I, is remarkable i: 



not formed m India, Arabia, or Egypt : climates like tin 



mg alone suited for its production. It is the Tereng jahimof th. ' 



by merely shaking the branches. Such is the importance of tl 



cattle tliat the Afghans, who call it Ka ri-shutur, or Jaursa, believe that l 



"j "'"-'' ""Dials, experienced in the Afghan oper 



plant Some writers are ol opinion that this was the Manna on which i 



Israel were led in the wilderness. A sweel quality is also found in 



ptiyllus and other species of that genus, in Sail 



root, ami inner bark of Robinia Pseudacacia. 

 Well-marked purgative properties occur in Colutea arl 



whose leaves are used for adulterating the blunt-leaved - 



Emerus (Scorpion Senna), and C. varia, which lasl i- i •• 



certain species of Genista, ( \ tisus, Robinia, ( htoria, Ai 



of the young tops of Cytisus sc parius Bn m) is d 



■aid to be emetic ; Mead and Cullen found them useful in 

 is a purgative by the people of Popayan. 

 Many are tonics and astringents. The i ark of I 



and tome The root of Ormocarpum a nn< id - - 

 ant. The root and seeds ol Sophora toment 



whous sickness. African Kino is the prodw 



lias proved that East Indian Kino is fornw d b; 



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