102 I. VEGETABLES.— JuGLANDEiiE. 



Canarium balsamiferum. Yields a kind of incense. — C 

 commune. Nuts, Java almonds ^ eaten, and made into bread'; 

 kernels yield an oil. 



ScHiNus MoLLE. Yields Peruvian mastich : wood purgative, 

 detersive, astringent : fruits make a kind of wine, rather acrid, 

 soon turning into vinegar. 



Pistachia, p. vera. Kernel oily, sweeter than those of al- 

 monds, forms a green emulsion, cooling. 



Turpentine tree, Pistachia terehintlms. Yields, by incision, 

 Scio turpentine ; fruit styptic, pickled for eating ; bark resinous, 

 substituted for narcaphte. 



Mastich tree, Lentiscus vulgaris, Pistachia lentiscus. Yields, 

 by incision, mastich ; berries yield oil ; wood used in dyspeptic 

 affections, gout, and dysentery. — P. Atlantica. Yields Barbary 

 mastich ; fruit acidulous. — P. trifolia. Fruit eatable. 



Jamaica birch tree, Bursera gummifera. Yields resina 

 chibou ; bark has the qualities of simarouba ; root astringent. — 

 Bursera orientalis. Also yields a tonic styptic resin. 



Spondias citherea. Fruit acid, cooling. 



MoMBiN, Spondius mgrobalanus. Yields rosin ; fruit acerb, 

 acidulous, laxative. 



Hog plum, Spondius entra. Bark, externally, as a fomenta- 

 tion in anasarca. — Otaheite apple, S. dulcis. Fruit edible. 



False Angostura, Wooginoos, Brucea antidgsenterica, B. fer- 

 ruginea. Inner bark astringent ; used to make brucine. 



AvERRHOA carambola ; — A, bilimbi ; — A, acidissima. Fruits 

 acid, made into preserves with sugar. 



Boswellia serrata, Lihanus thurifera. Yields olibanum. — 

 J5. glabra. Exudes koondricum, and, by incision, yields gugul. 



133. JUGLANDEJE. 



Walnut, Juglans, J. regia. Sap yields sugar ; kernels of the 

 seeds cooling, but are difficult of digestion; when old, acrid; 

 yields half their weight of oil by expression ; peel of the fruit 

 used in dyeing brown colours ; leaves detersive, diaphoretic, anti- 

 arthritic, anti-syphihtic ; inner bark emetic, and also cathartic 

 when given in pills; spongy substance inside the nut astringent. 



^ American hiccory, Juglans alba. Bark, green leaves, and 

 rind of the fruit used in dyeing, with alum, a bright yellow co- 

 lour. 



Pennysylvania walnut. Butter nut, Juglans cinerea. Inner 

 bark of the root, juglans^ P. U. S. cathartic, and used against 

 worms. 



