I. VEGETABLES Artocarpe^. 33 



♦Fig tree, Fiats vulr/aris, F. carica. Dried fruit, carica, 

 cariccB friictus, emollient, laxative, pectoral, used as a suppurative 

 iK)ultice ; milk of the tree caustic, consumes warts ; leaves kept 

 long upon the skin, inflame it. 



Stcamore fig, Ficm sycamonts. Fruit less agreeable and 

 less digestible than the other. 



Ficus TOKicARiA. Used to impoison weapons. 



Ficus SEPTICA. A powerful vermifuge ; milky juice very 

 acrid. 



Jamaica fig tree, Ficus Benghalensis, Milky juice used 

 against the poison of manchineal. 



Indian fig tree, Ficus Indica. Milky juice glutinous, and 

 becomes a soft kind of Indian rubber. 



Lisbon contrayehva, Contrayerva Drakena^ Dorstenia con- 

 trayerva. Root, cojitraJervcB radix, imported from the West 

 Indies, in pieces about two inches long, packed in bales. 

 When fresh, acrid ; when dry, aromatic, stimulant, antiseptic, 

 diaphoretic; dose, gr. x — xxx;in decoction or infusion to 5ij. 

 The roots of yarrow, or of button snake weed, may be used as 

 substitutes. 



Caapia, Dorstenia Brasiliensis ; — D, Drakena ; — D, Houstoni, 

 Roots diaphoretic : are all sold as contrayerva. 



Bread fruit tree, Artocarpus incisa. Fruit, meaf, fruity 

 bread fruit, when unripe, contains a farinaceous pulj) ; before the 

 seeds fill the fruit is very pulpy and pleasant. 



Jack tree, Artocarpus jaca. Fruit eatable; juice yielded by 

 incision, elastic like Indian rubber; bark said to make Chinese 

 rice paper, used for flower painting ; others ascribe this paper to 

 Nelumbium speciosum. 



WoNTAY, Artocarpus Benghalensis, Fruit preserved in salt, 

 used in cookery instead of tamarinds. 



A NT I A R I s T ox I c A r I A , Ipo toxicaria. Milky j uice, upas antiar^ 

 used to poison instruments. 



Bagassa. Tree lactescent ; fruit eatable. 

 •White mulberry, Moms alba ; — * Red mulherry, M, rubra. 

 Fruits esculent. 



•Black mulberry, Morus niyra. Bark of the root cathartic, 



'c, dose 5S8 in powder ; fruit, mora, mori baccce, esculent, 



) a syrup. 



Fustic, Mnrus tinctoria, M. xanthoxybmu Abounds with a 



•^'ilphureous milk ; wood, old fustic, hois jmnic, hois (V Anyleterre ; 



|ihur-coloured, in large blocks: with alum dyes a very durable 



I u (olour, with iron liquor drab colours, and with both mor- 



:.j :.t , an olive. 



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