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which are occasionally brought to Europe. They are enumerated 

 by Dr. W. Ainslie in his very valuable Materia Indica, that they 

 may be further investigated; for, as he justly observes, it is 

 better that many things should be brought forward, although 

 some may ultimately prove of little value, than that any one 

 should be omitted which might become a valuable acquisition to 

 medicine. Some of these which have been brought to Europe 

 are here enumerated, and to these are added some African and 

 American drugs and woods of unknown origin. 



BARKS. 



J LB ABA. Taste and smell of vanilla, antispasmodic. 



Massoj/ bark. Tonic. 



Autour bark. Is it not the macer groecorum of the old physi- 

 cians ? Resembles coarse cassia, used in making fine carmine ; 

 from Turkey. 



AngelinoB cortex. Vermifuge, used in Granada. 



Kilioorum puttay. Stomachic ; resembles Canella alba in ap- 

 pearance and properties. 



Vaymbadum puttay. Used as a red dye. 



Pocgereba cortex. Used in dysentery ; brought from America. 



I 'nqventariiis cortex. Slimy, used in ulcerous cases ; brought 

 from South America, perhaps from Ulmiis Americana. 



Chinese rice paper. Texture excellently adapted for flower 

 painting ; doubtful whether from an Artocarpus or a Nelum- 



f I III in. 



HEEBS AXD LEAVES. 



Letchicuttay elley, folia de bunkood. Used in rheumatism, 

 much esteemed by the Portuguese. 



Agal a/jaL A mucilaginous alga, used to stiffen Chinese silks 

 and paper. 



ROOTS. 



htprzka jaar^ radix Indica Lopezina, used in colliquative 

 diarrhoea, and the last stage of consumption. 



Pooda carapan puttay^ Pan de merda, Pan sitjo. Smells like 

 human excrements ; used in a liniment against inveterate itch. 



Pitt chuck. Burned in China as a perfume. 



Peepid mtd^ Pimple mool, Pipla more. Aromatic. 



liehen album. Ascribed to Cncnbalm bchcn ; l)ut this is 

 doubted. 



Behen r^dtnim. Ascribed to Staticc limonum ; but this is still 

 more doubtful. 



