LEGTJMIN0S2E-MIM0SEJE. 



Acacias, are of inferior quality. Many other Acacia* have a very 

 astringent bark, used either in medicine or for dyeing and tanning. 

 This is the case witli nearly all the gum species, especially A. 

 arabica, Adansonia, Ehrenbergii, peregrina, Segat, Vereh, &c. What 

 is called Mimosa-bark Extract in England is obtained from the 

 Australian species with gummy juice, and chiefly from A. decurrens, 

 homalophylla, 1 melanoxylon, mollissima? pgenant/ta, &c. :i The barks of 

 many other species of Acacia proper are rich in tannin : but astringency 

 seems most developed in the old species of Mimosa and Acacia, 

 vulgarly known in Brazil as " Bark of youth and of virginity" 4 

 especially Angico, 5 Barbatimao? Avaremotemo, 7 and Jurerna. 8 Many 

 Calliandras, such as the Tendrc-a-cailtou 9 and C. grandiflora 10 of Mexico, 

 have similar properties ; the latter species is especially recommended 

 in fluxes and chest diseases. No doubt it is for its astringent proper- 

 ties that Mimosa sensitiva 11 is so highly valued in America in the treat- 

 ment of fistula and piles ; just like Adenanthera ptavonina (B,ed Sandal- 

 wood ; Fr., Condori d'Inde), 12 in rheumatism and inflammations of 

 the mucous membranes, and Pithecolobitim Unguiscati, n Inga vera, 14 

 and I. Bur gonial in fluxes and catarrhal phlegmasia ; and in tropical 

 Asia the decoctions of several species of Mimosa, Leucccna and 

 Acacia™ are used as lotions to bruised or inflamed parts. So, too, 

 several Albizzias are similarly employed, especially A. micrant/ia, 17 

 which affords a sort of Catechu ; in Java and the Indian Archipelago 



1 Myall tree of the Australians. Nlopo H. B. K), has similar properties; but it 



2 Silver- Wattle of the Australians. is also a stimulant, and is powdered as a snuff 



3 See LlNDL., Fl. Med., 270. — H. Bn., in just like Mimosa acacioides. 



Adansonia, iv. 103, 109, 114, 116, 119. 9 C. tetragona Benth. — Acacia tetragona 



4 Pis., Brasil., 77. W. — A. quadrangidaris Lamk. 



5 Piptadenia colubrina Benth., in Hook. w Benth. — Acacia grandiflora W. — Inga 

 Journ., iv. 334. — Acacia angico Mart. — anomala DC, part. (Rosenth., op. cit., 10(52.) 



Saldanha, Config das Pr. Madeir., &c. n L., Spec, 1501. — DC, Prodr., n. 3. — 



(1865), 126, Icon. Rosenth., op. cit., 1053. 



6 Stryphnodendron Barbatimao Mart. — y2 L. (see above, pp. 21, 22, fig. 15-19). — 

 Guib., Drog. Simpl., ed. 4, iii. 306.— H. Bn., Rosenth., op. cit., 1051. 



in Diet. Encycl. Sc. Med., viii. 310. — Inga u Bentii. — Inga Unguis-cali W ., Spec, iv, 



Barbatimao Endl. — Acacia adstringens Mart. 1006. — /. guadaluperms Desvx. 

 It is prescribed in Brazil in cases of wounds, M W., op. cit., iv. 1014. — DC, Prodr., 



burns, and even hernias. ii. 433, n. 18. 



7 Pithecolobium Avaremotevo Mart. — Inga ls DC, op. cit., n. 26. — Mimosa Bourgoni 

 Avaremotevo Endl. — Mimosa cochliocarpos Aubl., Guian., ii. t. 358. — M. fagi folia L., 

 Gom. — Acacia virginalis Pohl. — Abaremo- Spec, 1498. 



temo Pis., loc. cit. — Brincos de Sahoim of the 16 See Rosenth., op. cit., 1053-1062. 



Brazilians (see Rosenth., op. cit. 1063). 17 Acacia odoratissvma W., op. cit. 1063. 



8 Stryphnodendron Jurerna Lindl., Veg. — Albizzia micrantha Boiv., in TUncyc. du 

 Kingd., 553. — Acacia Jurerna Mart. — Guib., xix''. Steele, ii. 34. — Cherymaram of Malabar. — 

 op. cit., 306. — Rosenth., op. cit., 1059. The Tarriesia IIassk., Cart. Sort. Bo^ .291. 

 Nupa or Nuipa of the Americans (Acacia 



