36 I. VEGETABLES.— EupHORBiACE^. 



oil, by boiling or expression ; root, in decoction, diuretic \ leaves, 

 with lard, used externally, as an emollient poultice. 



RiciNUs COMMUNIS MAJoit, R, viridis. Seeds, lamp oil seeds. 

 Yield oil. 



Croton TIGlium. Seeds, Molucca grains, purging nuts, grana 

 tiglia, gr. ss with catechu gr. j, very hydragogue, emetic, emme- 

 nagogue, corrected by acids, or roasting, yield oil ; wood, lignum 

 pavance, has the same qualities, but weaker, sudorific in a small 

 dose. 



Cascakilla, C cascarilla. C. Eleuteria. Clutia Eleuteria? 

 Bark, Eleuteria bark, narcaphte, thymiama, cortex thuris, cascarillcB 

 cortex, imported from Eleutheria, in the Bahama Islands: bitter, 

 very febrifuge, stops vomiting, the dysentery, and menorrhagia, 

 dose gr. xv to 3j ; aromatic when burnt, and used to scent tobacco 

 for smoking, but inebriates ; dyes a fine black. Officinal prepara- 

 tions. — Tinct. and infus. Cascarillae, D. L. 



Cascarilla ealsamiferum; — C. aromaticum, and some other 

 species, are used to aromatise distilled liqueurs in the West 

 Indies. — C. lineare, A specific in cholic. — C. Moluccanum, 

 Seeds, having the corculum taken out, esculent. — C, kumile. 

 Used in baths for nervous weaknesses. 



Tallow tree of China, Cascarilla sehiferum, Sapium sebi- 

 ferum. Seeds yield tallow. — C. lacciferum. Yields Ceylon lac. * 



*TLrRXsoL, Heliotr opium, Cascarilla tinctorium. Juice blue, 

 easily changed red by acids, and green by alkalies ; used to dye 

 rags and paper. — C. tricuspidatum. Juice blue, resembles turnsol. 



Barbadoes nut tree, Jatropha curcas. Seeds, common physic 

 nut, very violently purgative and emetic, no. 2 or 3, carefully 

 peeled ; yield an oil : shrub yields, on incision, a lactescent and 

 caustic juice which dyes linen black; leaves rubefacient. — J» 

 glauca. Seeds pressed for their oil. 



Jatropha glandulosa; — Wildcassada, J.gossipifolia. Young 

 leaves, no. 6, boiled as greens, a powerful purge ; no. 15 — 20, 

 in decoction, with some castor oil, used as a clyster in dry belly- 

 ach ; the powder of the gland contained in the stem is an 

 errhine. 



French physic nut, Jatropha multifida. Seed, avellana pur- 

 gatrix, no. 1, a violent purge, yield oil. 



Bitter cassava, Jatropha manihot. Root full of an acrid, 

 poisonous, milky juice, separable by expression, or corrected by 

 roasting, thus yielding a nutritive farina ; also by boiling the 

 juice, which is used as a sauce, and made into soy. 



Sweet cassava, Jatropha janipha. Roots, meal roots, soaked 

 in water, dried and powdered are nutritive. — Hycena poison, J, 

 globosa, Hycenanche globosa, Toxicodendron Capense. Fruit in 



