86 THE USES OF PLANTS. 



Melia indica, Brand is ( = M. Azadirachta, L.), the 

 NlM or MARGOSA of India, contains an alkaloid in 

 its bark, known as Margosine, used in India as a tonic 

 and antiperiodic.* 



Soymida febrifuga, Juss. ( = Swietenia febrifuga, 

 Willd.), the BASTARD CEDAR, or ROHUN, another 

 Indian tree, has also an astringent tonic bark, valuable 

 in dysentery, f 



RHAMNACE^:. 



Rhamnus cathartica, L., the BUCKTHORN, a British 

 shrub, has berries which are collected, when ripe, in 

 Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire, for 

 their juice, from which a purgative syrup and the pig- 

 ment known as SAP GREEN are prepared. The latter 

 substance is, however, mainly prepared from Persian 

 berries, the fruit of R. infeclorius, L.J 



R. Purshiamis, DC., yields a bark which has been 

 introduced under the name of CASCARA SAGRADA 

 (* Sacred Bark ') as a tonic purgative. 



ANACARDIACE^:. 



The resins of the MASTICH (Pistacia Lenttscus, L.) 

 and the Terebinth (P. Terebinthus, L.), the latter 

 known as CHIAN TURPENTINE, are practically obso- 

 lete in English medicine ; though this latter has 

 recently been suggested for use in cancer. 



Comocladia integrifolia, Jacq., ' MAIDEN PLUM,' of 

 the West Indies, has a bark said to be hypnotic.|| 



* Bentley and Trimen, pi. 62. f Ibid., pi. 63. 



J Ibid., pi. 64 Ibid., pi. 68, 69. 



|| 4 Christy, ' New Commercial Plants,' No. 10, p. 106. 



