2f;4 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tliese barks are especially efficacious in affections primarily arising 

 from obstruction of the portal vein, but that they require to be used 

 with caution, for in excess they will produce vertigo, haemorrhage, 

 and even abortion. The root of U/iona macrophylla is very aromatic, 

 and is used by the Javanese mountaineers in infusion, prescribed in 

 variola maligna and typhoid fever. The same people consider that 

 tlie fruit of U. mhcordata will cure colic. TJnona {Polj/althia) ma- 

 crophijUa, U. Kentii, U. laiifolia Bl., Uvaria argentea Bl., mohiccana 

 KosTL. {TJnona Musaria Dun.), Naruni Bl. {U. zeyJanica Lamk., — 

 Unona Nfinim Dun.) and zeylanica L. {TJ. Heyneana W. & Arn., nee 

 Wall., — Guatteria malaharka Dun.), are aromatic species, used 

 as drugs or cosmetics. In tropical Asia the perfumed fruits of 

 Ucaria Bi/rahol V»h., dulcis Dux., and hderophylla Bl., are eaten, as are 

 those of Unona {Poly alt hia) cerasoides, Corinthi, sempervirens, species 

 with stimulant tonic aromatic barks, sometimes prescribed in rheu- 

 matic alfections. 



Cananga cBtan, or Uvaria tripetala Lamk., has very aromatic seeds, 

 used by the women of Amboyna to perfume their bodies. The 

 trunk is incised to extract a juice which, when concreted, forms a 

 white scented gum. 



The flowers of Artahotrys also are very aromatic,' as indicated 

 by the specific names of odoratissma, suaveolens, &c. The latter 

 species is known in the Indian Archipelago as Diirie carhan,^ Its 

 leaves are used to prepare an aromatic infusion, whose good effects 

 in cholera have been related by Blume. Several species of this 

 genus, especially A. intermedia Hassk., afford a scented oil, much 

 used as a perfume in Java, under the name of Minjakkenangan . The 

 Arhor nigra maculosa, of which E-umphius has described the various 

 properties, is probably our A. uncata? Many species of the same 

 genus have edible fruits. 



The Canang of the Moluccas, now cultivated in all warm countries, 

 is Unona odoraia ;^ it owes this name to the sweet scent of its 



i ^i.i: U. lis., iJict. Enci/cL des Sc. Medic, "• DuN., Mo7i., 107, t. 26 (U. velutina 



vi. 261. G^ETN. ; — U. leptopetala DC. ; — Cananga odo- 



2 Hl., op. c;7., t. 30, 31 D. rata RoxB.; — Uvaria Cananga Vahl. ; — U. 



3 See p. 225. A. odorati^simvs R. Be. orfora/a Lamk. ; — U. Ocertneri DC ; — U. axil- 

 Ationa hexapetala L. ; — A. uncinata Lamk.; laris Rox.b.; U. farcia Wall.; — Cananga syl- 



— Unona hamata DcN.; — U. uncinata Utn. ; vestris trifolia jirima'Rvyi'Bn., Herb. Amhoin., 

 Uvaria unrala LorR. ; U. esculenta Rottl.; ii. 197, t. 66; — Arbor Saguisan Ray. Supp. 



— U. odoratissima HoXB. ; — Modiri Walli Xwz., 83 ; — AlanguUan oi Chma. ^O-HS.). (See 

 Hheed., Uort. Malab., vii. 86, t. 86). Lamk., Did., i. 595, 597 ; ///., t. 114, fig. 2.) 



