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bura L. ; in all the warm regions of the globe a great many Trium- 

 fettas" and herbaceous species of Corchorus have the same reputation. 

 These last, rich in water or in syrup of a gummy consistence, and 

 without other flavour than that given to them by various sauces, are 

 used as vegetables under the name of Coretes, like our spinage and 

 lettuce ; such are principally C. olitorim L. (fig. 194), acutangulus L., 

 tridens L. } capsularis L., depressus 2 &c. The flowers are often 

 slightly odoriferous in the preceding genera ; those of the Limes 

 have a soft fragrance, often ethereal. The bees pillage them of 

 an aromatic juice much used in medicine, in infusions, in dis- 

 tilled waters, as digestives, diaphoretics, sedatives, and antispasmo- 

 dics. In Greivia the fruit is often partly fleshy and edible, sweet and 

 acidulate, sometimes employed 3 in tropical countries in the prepara- 

 tion of cooling drinks and sherbet. The flesh of several Asiatic 4 

 species of Elceocarpus have the same reputation ; it is eaten alone, or 

 confected with sugar. But in most of the species of the two last 

 genera the leaves are astringent, and the bark tonic, aromatic, or 

 bitter, containing a certain amount of tannin. In Asia Grewia Mi- 

 crocos L. and orientalis L., are also valued as astringents. 5 



Some species serve, for the same reason, in the preparation of skins 

 and leather. In Brazil, the Luheas are used in the same way. 6 In 

 the Limes themselves, the bracts which accompany the flowers are 

 considered to give to the infusions a slight degree of astringency. 7 

 Several American species of Triumfetta* are both astringent and muci- 



1 Especially T. angidata Lamk., in India lanceolatus Bl., tuberadatus Roxb., tectorius 

 and Tropical Africa; in Java, T. annua L., (Craspedum tectorium Lour.), macrophyllus Bl. 

 spicata Bl., pseudo-angidata Bl. ; in India, T. (Ganitrus oblongiimUvavu.), angustifolius Bl., 

 pilosa Roth, oblongata Lamk., triloadaris and E. cyaneus Sims (figs. 199-201), Austra- 

 Roxb. ; in America, T. havannensis H. B. K. lian species (see Rosenth., op. cit., 733, 1148). 

 and altheoides Lamk. The Andjang-annjanc of India, a plant with 



2 C. Antichorus Rcetjsch (ex DC. — Anti- oleaginous seeds, is an Elceocarpus. 



chorus depressus L. fil., Mantiss., 64. — DC., 5 G. columnaris Sm., and asiatica L., are dis- 



Prodr., i. 504. — Jussiaa edulis FonSK., JEg~ tinguished as such ; the latter is valued as an 



arab., 210. — Carrictera Scop. antisyphilitic. In Abyssiuia some species are 



3 Among others, those of G. asiatica L., used as astringents. 



sapida Roxb., hirsuta Vahl, tiliafolia Vahl, 6 Principally L. paniadata Mart, and Azoite 



in India; of G. megalocarpa P. Beativ., in cavallos, that is to say, L. grandiflora Mart. 



Guinea. In Abyssinia those of G. eckinulata and divaricata Mart. The former is used in 



Del., and of G. discolor Fres. (vulg. Somayd) making gun stocks; the two latter furnish 



are eaten. Those of a Grewia, named in crooks used in keeping sheep, 



the country Matangourre, are astringent and 7 "Flores..., dum infunduntur, a bracteis 



used in making ink. . validius adstringentibus caule separaudi." 



4 Especially E. Ganitrus Roxb., serra- (Endl., loc. cit.) 



tus L., Perim-kara DC. Tulpai of India), 8 Principally T. semitriloba L., sepium 



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