84 THE USES OF PLANTS. 



from the fruit of C. medica^ Risso, are used mainly in 

 perfumery, or for liqueurs, or merely as flavourers in 

 medicine. 



jEgle Marmelos, Corn, the BAEL fruit of India, is 

 used in diarrhoea or dysentery, attention having been 

 directed to it in Europe about 1850.* 



SIMARUBE.E.f 



Picrcena excelsa^ Lindl. (= Quassia excelsa, Swartz 

 = Simaruba excelsa, DC.), QUASSIA or BITTER WOOD, 

 a native of Jamaica, is employed as a stomachic and 

 tonic, its wood being often turned into 'Bitter-cups.' 

 That of Quassia amara, L., of Surinam, is also used. 



Simaba Cedron, Planchon, ' CEDRON,' of Panama, has 

 bitter seeds, suggested as a quinine substitute and for 

 subcutaneous injection in hydrophobia, and used locally 

 for snake-bite. It was sent to Kew by Purdie and 

 Seemann between 1843 and 18504 



BURSERACE^E. 



Boswellia Carteri, Birdwood, was first recognised 

 as the source of GUM OLIBANUM, or FRANKINCENSE, 

 by Surgeon-Major H. J. Carter, in South-East Arabia, 

 in 1846.11 B. Bhau-Dajiana, Birdw., of Somali-land, 



* ' Pharmacographia,' p. 116; ' Pharm. Journ.,' x (1850), p. 

 165 ; ii (1861), p. 499. Bentley and Trimen, pi. 55. 



f A. W. Bennett, ' Notes on Indian Simarubeas/ 



J Smith, 'Dictionary of Economic Plants,' Hooker's 'Journ. 

 of Botany/ v (1846), 566. 



Linn. Trans.,' xxvii (1871), p. 143. 



|| Journ. of Bombay branch, Royal Asiatic Soc., ii (1848), 

 p. 380, tab. 23. Bentley and Trimen, pi. 58. 



