448 NA TUBAL III 8 TOE Y OF PLANTS. 



Venezuela, Costa Rica, and in the north of Brazil, as a febrifuge 

 and alexipharmic. The powder of the cotyledons, known under the 

 name of Noix de Cedron (Cedron Nut), and which is sometimes sold 

 at a high price, is used in treating the bites of serpents. Some con- 

 sider it an invaluable specific in this case, 1 while others deny that it 

 has any such virtues. It seems certain that in alleviating attacks 

 of fever it is much inferior to cinchona, and is only useful as a 

 tonic, like the other Quassiem and Simarubea. Brucea cmtidysentericd? 

 (fig. 437), an Abyssinian species, and B. sumatrana? are also powerful 

 tonics and bitters. The Tariris are the same in Tropical America, 

 T. pentandra* of Jamaica has been extolled as a stomachic and febri- 

 fuge. T. ciliata 5 of Brazil has been used in the same way as cinchona 

 and cascarilla. T. Anlidesma 6 is used in Cuba as astringent and 

 antisyphilitic. All these plants have a very bitter bark, less so 

 however than Rex amarosis of Bumphius/ an excellent tonic, valued 

 as a remedy in diarrhoea, fever, and cholera, and which is Soulamea 

 amara 9 (figs. 491, 492) ; we may doubtless observe the same qua- 

 lities in the numerous species of the genus found in New Caledonia. 9 

 Castela Nicholsoni™ passes in the Antilles as being as bitter as Quassia. 

 In Ailantus" the bitterness is less decided, especially in the leaves, 

 and gives place to a nauseous flavour. A. glanduhsa vz (figs. 469-471), 

 a native of Temperate Asia, introduced into Europe in 1751 by 

 P. d'Incarville, now cultivated in many countries, where it is very 



1 Hook., in Phann. Journ., x. 344. — Saf- 5 Picramnia ciliata Mart, ex Rosenth., loc. 



fbay, in Tour du Monde, xxiv. 10. — Te., in cit. (vulg. Pao Pereira). 



Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, xv. 357. 6 P. Antidesma Sw., Fl. Lid. Occ, toe. cit. 



- Mill., Fasc, t. 25. — DC, Prodr., ii. 88, ' Herb. Amboin., ii. 129, t. 41. 



n. 1. — Lindl., Fl. Med., 219. — Rosenth., op. 8 Lame., Diet., i. 449. — DC, Prodr., i. 



cit., 873. — H. Bn., in Diet. Fncycl. Sc. Nat., 335. — Lindl., Fl. Med., 127. — Rosenth., op. 



xi. 174. — B.ferruginea Lh£r., Slirp., 19, t. 10. cit., 790. — Cardiocarpous amarus Reinw., Syll. 



— Wooginos BitECE, Voy. (trad. Casteea), PL Ralisb., ii. 14. — Cardiophora Hindsii 

 v. 87, t. 43. i Benth., in Hook. Lond. Journ., ii. 216. 



3 Roxb., Fl. Ind., i. 469. — DC, Prodr., n. 3. 9 Ad. Be. & Ge., in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 5, 



— H. Bn., loc. cit., n. 2. — Gonus amarissimus iii. 229. 



Loee. — Simaba quassioides (Don, Prodr. i0 Hook., in Pot. Misc., i. t. 56. — Bosejstii., 



Fl. Nepal., 218), which is Nima quassioides op. cit., 869 (vulg. Goat Bush). 



Ham., and which in mountainous India is n See H. Bn., in Diet. Encycl. Sc. Med., ii. 



thought to he as powerful a hitter as Quassia. 226. . 



(Rotle, Essay, 8; — Lindl., Ft. Med., 209), ]e Ailantus glandulosa Desf., in Act. Acad. 



hebng also to the genus Brucea. Par. (1786), 263, t. 8. — Lb£r., Stirp., t. 84. — 



4 Picramnia penlandra S"\v., Fl. Did. Occ, i. DC, Prodr., i. 89. — Rosenth., Syn. PI. 

 220. — Pl., in Hook. Journ., v. 377. — Rosenth., Diaph., 877. — A. procera Salisb., Prodr., 271. 

 op. cit., 867. An infusion of this plant is, — R/tus hypsolodendron Mcencii. — R. Caco- 

 according to De La Sagea, used in Cuba in dendron Ekhe. — R. canadense Mill. (vulg. 

 preference to quinine and cinchona in the treat- Ailanto, Faux Vernis du Japon). 



ment of intermittent fevers. 



