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used in ophthalmic and nervous diseases. The longer 

 beans of P. cylindrospermum, Holmes, have been 

 recently imported and found to be more valuable.* 



Pterocarpus Marsupium, Roxb., was shown by 

 Roylef to be the main source of KINO, which astrin- 

 gent was originally obtained from the African P. 

 erinaceus, Poir. It is also obtained from Butea fron- 

 dosa, Roxb., the ' DHAK,' or ' PALAS KINO,' and in 

 Australia from Eucalyptus rostrata, Schlecht., E. 

 corymbosa, Sm., E. citriodora, Hook., and other 

 species. 



Piscidia Erythrina, L., the WHITE DOGWOOD of 

 Jamaica, is stated to possess hypnotic and anodyne 

 properties in the bark of the root,J and the bark of 

 the valuable timber tree Andira inermis, Kunth., of 

 the West Indies, is said to be a drastic purga- 

 tive. 



Andira Araroba, Aguiar, * ARAROBA/ or ' GOA 

 POWDER,' has, since 1864, attracted considerable 

 attention, and the pith is now, under the name 

 'CHRYSAROBIN,' admitted to the Pharmacopceia. 



Myroxylon Toluifera, H.B.K., is a native of Vene- 

 zuela and New Granada, from the stems of which 

 BALSAM OF TOLU is obtained. It was first fully 

 described by Mr. John Weir, plant-collector to the 



* Spon's * Encyclop. Indust. Arts,' p. 795 ; 'Pharmaco^raphia,' 

 p. 167, and references there given ; Smith, 'Domestic Botany,' 

 p. 431. Bentley andTrimen, ii, pi. 80. 



f ' Pharm. Journ.,' v (1846), p. 495; ' Pharmacographia,' 

 p. 170 ; Bentley and Trimen, ii, pi. 81. 



J Dr. Halsey, 'Therapeutic Gazette,' August, 1886. 



' Pharm. Journ.,' v (1864), p. 345 ; E. M. Holmes, ibid., v 

 (1875), pp. 723, 729, 801, 816; ibid., ix (1878-9), pp., 29, 755 ; 

 ibid^ x (1879-80), pp. 42, 814, (Thos. Greenish) ; and pamphlet 

 by Dr. Balmanno Squire. 



