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or made into gruel. — H. Cafer, Stalk very saccharine, juice 

 ipade into sugar. 



*Drank, JVild oat //rass, Bromiis, B, sterilis. Seed drying, 

 corrects stinking breath ; decoction vermifuge. 



GuiLXO, Bromus catharticus. Seed ? purgative. 



IG. JUNCEiE. 

 •Common soft wv^h^ Jimcus vulgaris, J, effusus ; — * Pricking 

 irge searush, Oxyschoenos^ J- acutiis. Astringent. 

 *SwEET Flag, Calamus aromatiais, Acorus calamus^ A. zindii- 

 i'ltus. Root, calami radix, broad, few-jointed, a sweet-scented 

 agreeable stomachic, which might be used for the foreign spices ; 

 dose from 3j to 3j ; used to flavour Prussian rye spirit and 

 French snuff. Green root is candied. — A. vents. A, Indicusy A, 

 Isiaticus. Root slender, many-jointed ; aromatic. 



17. PALM^. 



By tapping many of these trees they yield a juice called toddy, 

 which when drank fresh in the cool of the morning is a mild 

 aperient; when the day gets warm it begins to ferment and is 

 converted into wine, and lastly, vinegar, unless boiled down for a 

 coarse brown sugar, jnggery. The pith of the trunk of many 

 p.:' ■ ]ds by washing a fecula, sago ; and the kernels of their 

 n ; by expression a butter-like oil. 



Date tree, Palma, Phmnix dactylifera. Fruit, dates, dactylus, 

 accharine, fleshy, emollient, sHghtly astringent, and pectoral. 



Sago talm, Sego, Sagou, Sagus gemiiiia, S. palma pinus, S. 

 hiifera. Yields the best sago. 



Saguaster major, Caryotci urms. Yields toddy and sago ; 

 I i ice of the fruit used to poison wells ; kernel made into a sweet- 

 meat. 



Guinea palm, Oil palm, Palma oleosa, Elceis Guinensis, 

 \'ields palm oil. 



Prickly pole, Cocos Guinensis, Bactris rotunda, B. minor. 

 Fruit oily. 



Cocoa tree, Palnui cocos, Cocos nucifcra. Yields the best 

 \(My ; fruit bud ccdjba/je, used for food ; nuts, cocoa nuts, contain 

 I milky juice, very refreshing ; flesh strong-tasted, very nutri- 

 tive, fattening, used in stews, rubbed down with water used as 

 milk ; yield an oil by boiling or expression. Confounded with 

 ( acao nut. 



Butter-nut tree, Cocos hutyracea. Fruit yields a solid oil. 

 NiFA PALM. Cocos Nypa, Yields toddy. 

 Great Macaw tree, Black ebony tree, Ehenus ^thiopicay 

 Cocos aculcatus, C.fusiformis, Yields macaw fat. 



