MELIAVE.E. 487 



Ciirolina cliildron cat them without inconvenience. The oil extracted 

 from the pulp is used for lighting and painting. The stones are em- 

 ployed in making chaplet beads, the leaves in dyeing, and the wood, 

 in cabinet-work. It is further said that in a strong dose this plant 

 is purgative, that its bark cm-es chronic quinsy, hysterics, and 

 diarrhoea. The same properties have been attributed to M. scmjicr- 

 virens ^ from the Antilles. M. Azadiraclda ^ is also employed in 

 India as vermifuge. Its bitter, tonic, astringent bark is used for the 

 treatment of hysteria and intermittent fever. The oil of the fruit 

 is also used for lighting, and the plant is equally tinctorial. Tlicse 

 different bead-trees, acting probably only as astringent and anti- 

 diarrhoeic, have been pointed out as specific against cholera. The 

 iriiit may be used to prepare a fermented liquor, considered a sto- 

 machic in India. The TrichiUas are generally evacuant medicines. 

 Elkaja of the Arabs has received, on account of its emetic properties, 

 the name of T. emetica? Another South American species has been 

 named 2\ cathartica} According to Jacquin the negresses use the 

 purgative root of T. trifoUnlata as abortive.^ T. havensis *" is con- 

 sidered in South America as efficacious for drojDsy, jaundice, affec- 

 tions of the liver and spleen, syphilis, and even sterility. There are, 

 besides, species of the same genus that are astringent : thus, T. mos- 

 chuta^ of Jamaica, produces the Juribali bark, reported as bitter and 

 astringent, a remedy for intestinal obstruct ions, cephalic affections, 

 remittent fevers, typhoid affections, small-pox, and measles. We 

 again meet with the same variety of properties in the used species 



1 Sw. I'l. Ind. Occ. ii. 737. — M. Azederach Maucgu.). 

 L. Spec. 550 {Lilas lies AidUles). ^ L. Spec. ocl. — 'acq. Amcr. 120, t. 82.— DC. 



- L. f^pcc. 550.— Cav. loc. eit. t. 20?>.—Azadi- Prodr. i. 623, n. U.— Lindl. 11. Mid. 152 [Cer- 



rachla indica A. Ji'ss. Mcliac. 69, t. 2, n. 5. soa miieho of the Spaniards, Kerseboom of the 



3 Vaul, Symb. i. 31.— DC. Prodi: i. 620, n. 5. Danes). 

 —Lindl. -F/.iVcrf.lSl.— GtiLL. et Peru. J"/. Sen. « Jacq. Amer. 129, t. 176, fig. 38.-II. B. K. 



Tent. i. 126.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 335.— .ff/- Nuv. Gtii. el Spec. v. 216.— DC. I'rodr. n. 0.— 



eaja Fousk. Fl. JFg.-Arab. 127. — Itoclutia c/ii- Endl. Enchirid. 552. — llobENTH. op. cit. 765. — 



loeiish Del. R<ieh. J)eux. Voy. Bot. n. 47. — Ma- T. ijlabra I/. Sijst. xiii. 294 (Mariiihciro da folha 



fiireira oleifera Bertol. Misc. Bat. ix. G, t. 2. — laii/ii SIaucgu. ex JIeu. et Dp.l. loc. cit. 767). 

 Oeniustephaniis Uimentnaus Fenzl. Flora (18J1), ' Sw. Fl. Jiid. Occ. 735.- — Eosenth. op. cit. 



312. This plant is used by the Arabs to shelter 76G. — T. odorata Andk. Jlol. Kcpos. i. QSI {ox 



the cofl'eo plantations. They prepare an anti- DC. i'/Wc. n. 8). — y. s;;o«rfi'otAs Jaco. (fig. 467- 



psoric ointment with the oil of sesammn mixed 471), and T. Catigoa A. S. H., the wood of 



with its seeds and fruits (/>ioHi7-(;/-/i«(, 7?'//«). which is employed in rabinet- work, are also 



•" Mart. Uosentii. op. cit. 765. — MoDchoxijlon species used for dyeing (Hosentu. op. cit. 700). 

 catharticnm Mart. {Mtninlwiyo dii f'dha mitida 



