EVPBORBIACEM. \m 



sembles that of the preceding, but which are distinguished by the 

 uniform dull yellow tint (or blackish brown when they have lost 

 their outer coat), in size a little less or at most nearly equal to 

 oiu' Riciniis, and by the projection, often very slight, of thi-ee 

 longitudinal lines which they bear on the sides, and on the middle 

 of the interior face. The oil called Oroton, pressed from these seeds, 

 is inwardly a powerful pui-gative in a small dose of one or two cbops, 

 and outwardly, a rubefacient and eruptive of terrible causticity. 

 Among other seeds of Euphorhiacea'^ rich in purgatives, we must 

 yet mention those of Anthostema Jubryanum^^ a shrub from the 

 Gaboon, reported the most powerful of all ; Jufvoplxa multifida- 

 large as Alberts, often employed in warm countries ; of the wild 

 Jairopha or Jatropha (/ossypifolia,^ very small, but equally active 

 as evacuants, and used in tro2iical America and Afi-ica ; of 

 Aleiirites moluccana,^ having the shape and size of a small chestnut 

 Math a stony envelope, and which, piu'ging much less energetically, 

 may, under certain conditions, be employed as an aliment ; those of 

 the Andaagu of Brazil,'' often two in number in a thick and volu- 

 minous stone, slightly tetragonal, broader than long and also rich in 

 purgative oil, analogous in its properties to that of Ricinus ; those 

 again of Hum crepitans^ (fig. 216-218), ten or twenty in number, 



— LiN"DL. Fl. Med. 181. — Kl. in Hayn. Arzn. mal de ventre, Medicinier a Feuilks de Cotoiiiiier, 



xiv. t. 3. — Pereiba, Elt-m. Mat. Med. ed. 4, ii. de Staphisaigre, de Gioseilller.) 



p. i. 403. — RosENTH. f>i/». PI. Diaph. 83-5. — * Aleiirites moluccaiiaW. Spec. iv. .590. — M. 



Rev. in Fl. Mid. du. XIX« siicle,\. 421.— L. Arg. Prodr. 723.— A. trilol/a Fomt. Char. 



March, in Adaiisoiiia, i. 232, t. 9, 10. — Bero. Gen. 112, n. 56. — A. commiitata, Geisel. C'rot. 



et ScHM. Off. Getv. {Croton). — MoQ. £ot. Med. Mon. 82. — A. ambiimx Pers. Si/nops. 587. — A. 



399, fig. 108.— C Parana Wall. Cat. n. 7722 Juss. Eupkorb. t. 12.— Cnmiritim cordifoUum 



A. — C, Jamahjota Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. G.ertn. Frnct. ii. 195. — C. oleosmn Relnw. — 



xiv. 258. — Tiglium officinale Kl. in Nov. Act. Jiiglans Camirium Lour. Fl. Cochii.ch. (ed. 



^V«/. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 418. {Bois des Mo- 1790), .573. 



liiqiies,piirffati/, de Paranc, de Tii/li). ^ Joliannesia princeps Vellos. Alograf, 199. 



' H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, v. 366, not. Accord- — M. Arg. Pr.:dr. 716. — Anda Gonusii A. S. 



ing to Aubry-Lecomte, a single drop of the oil H. PI. Us. Bras. t. 54, 55. — H. Bn. in Adan- 



extractcd from the seeds purges violently. soma, iv. 284 ; in Diet. Encijcl. Sc. Mid. iv. 304. 



- Jatropha multifida L. Spec. 1006. — Desk. A. brasiliensis Raddi, Mem. Quar. Plant. Bras, 



in Lamk. Diet. iv. 10. — Sw. Obs. 368. — Guib. 25. — Aiidl.icas j)enlap/ii/llns\'Et,'Lon. — Aleiirites 



loc. cit. 356, fig. 455. — Pereira, op. cit. 426. — pentaphi/lla Wall. — Gi'Idourt distinguishes 



M. Aro. Prodr. 1089, n. 35. — Adenorhopi urn (op. cit. 361, fig. 460) another Anda of Brazil, 



multifulnm PoHL, PI. Bras. i. 16. (Arbre de with a round seed, which is perhaps a /«(;•»;'/(«. 



eorail, Medicinier d'Espar/ne, Noisetier purgatif, '• ]Inra crepitans L. Spec. 1431. — TuRP. in 



grand Ben purgatif.) Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 279. — Si'ach, Suit, a 



^ J.gossgpifolia L. Spec. 1006.— Sw. Obs. Piiffon, t 7G.— II. Jiff. Eiiphorb. t. 6.— M. Av.(i. 



336.— M. Arc. Prodr. 1086.— Mer. et Del. Prodr. 1229.— Gun;, loc. cit. 360, fig. 459. 



Did. Mat. Med. iii. 676. — Rosenth. op. cit. Samo jn-operties in If. pob/andra (II. Bx. 



828. — Gl'ib. loc. cit. 354, fig. 453. [Uerbc an £«;VioW'. 544), a Mexican speoies. 



