20 I. VEGETABLES.— CoLCHicACE^. 



Calamus draco. Fruit yields dragon^s blood. 



Sugar palm, Borassus ffomutus, Arcnga saccharifera. Yields 

 sago and excellent toddy. 



Cham.erops. a species of this genus appears to yield gum 

 caranna. 



Dwarf palm, Chamceriphes, Palma prunifera, Phoenix humilis, 

 Chamcerops humilis. Said to yield bdellium : fruit, icild dates, 

 astringent. 



Maldivian cocoa-nut tree, Borassus Sechellensis, Lodicea 

 Sechellarum, L, Maldivica, Fruit, sea cocoa-nut, but indifferent 

 eating, used in typhus fever. 



Wax palm, Ceroxylon audicola. Trunk covered two inches 

 thick with wax and rosin. 



Palmyra tree, Lontarus domestica, Borassus Jlabellif or mis. 

 Yields toddy, and also bdellium. 



Cabbage palm, Areca oleracea. Flowering bud, or cabbage, 

 is highly esteemed ; yields an oil. 



Betel nut tree, Areca, Faufel, A. Faufel, A. Catechu ; — A, 

 glohulifera. Husk of the fruit pinam/, chewed with betel and a 

 little lime as a sialagogue and stomachic, reddens the spittle : 

 catechu is extracted from the wood. 



Caleza de n F.GRO, Ph?/t€lephas macrocarpa ; — P. microcarpa. 

 Milk of the fruits becomes hard like ivory, and of a fine taste. 



Grass tree, Acaroides resinifera, XantJiorrhea resinosay X. 

 hastilisy and other species ; stem yields yellow gum. 



Ou virandra fenestralis, Hydroffeton fhicstralis ; — Saururus 

 natans, Apojiogeton monostachyon ; — A, distachyon. Roots bulbous, 

 eaten when roasted. 



Wild date tree. Elate sylvestris. Yields a pleasant toddy. 



Broad-leaved sago palm, Cycas circinalis ; — Lihby tree, C, 

 revoluta ; — C, inermis ; — Great fan palm, Corypha iimbraculifera ; 

 — Zamia cycadis, Z. lanuginosa. All yield sago. 



18. COMMELINE.E. 



American spider wort, Tradescantia Virgiuiaca. Leaves 

 used as a pot-herb, aperient. 



19. COLCHICACEiE. 



Almost all the parts of these plants are so active as to be really 

 poisonous. 



*Meadow saffron, Colchicum, C. autumnale. Bulb, colchici 

 radix, taken up towards the end of July, sliced transversely imme- 

 diately to prevent its growth, and dried without heat, is a very 

 powerful sedative, cathartic, diuretic, and expectorant; but is 



