MELIACE.E. 489 



Z. domesticum,^ of the Indian Archipelago, is the best known. Its 

 very bitter seeds are vermicidal, and its bark is used for smoking 

 meat. Z. aqiieum Jack, and humile Hassk., of Java, have also edible 

 fruits. Also in India Aglaia edulis ^ and Nijalelia racemosa Dennst, 

 which are congeneric ; in Java, Walsura (?) finnata Hassk. Animals 

 eat not only the pericarp, but also the fleshy coloured aril of several 

 Aglaia^ Lansium., and Amoora. A. Rohitiika * of India has oleaginous 

 seeds whose fatty matter is used for burning and making soap. 

 The harko{ Hegnea frijuga ° is used for dyeing, and that oi H. Piscidia ° 

 is employed by the fishermen to poison the rivers. 



A large number of Swieteniece and Cedrelece are celebrated for their 

 uses.' The Carapas belong to the tropical coasts of the world. The 

 large pyi-amidal seeds of C. guianensis ^ yield an oil which, according 

 to AuBLET, the Galibis extract by boiling them in water, and then 

 pounding them and making them drain into a slab hollowed like a 

 gutter, which they expose to the rays of the sun. The negroes of 

 Guiana are satisfied* sometimes to press out this paste in a straining 

 bag, the meshes of which are traversed by the oil. This, thick and 

 bitter, mixed with arnotto, is applied to the hair and skin, which it 

 preserves from the stings of insects, and especially from the attacks 

 of the Chigos [Pidex penetrans). It is probably the same species 

 that, growing on the western coast of tropical Africa, has received 

 the name of C. guineensis or Touloucouna, and from whose seeds is 

 extracted also in that country an oil of Touloucouna^ or rather a sort 

 of butter, unctuous to the touch, melting in the hand, odorous, and 

 extremeljr bitter. The bark of the tree is also very bitter ; it has 

 been recommended as a febrifuge, and its properties were at first 

 thought to be due to an alcaloid resembling that of the Cinchona. 



> Bl. Bijdr. 165.— RosENTH. op. cit. 764.— «^ RoxB. Bot. Mag. t. 1738.— DC. Prodi: i. 



LiNDL. Vcg. Kingd. 464 {Laiigsat, Laiiseh, Ager- 624. — Rosenth. nj). cit. 765. 



ager). ^ Walsura Piscidia RoxB. Fl. Lid. ii. 388. — 



- Milnea edulis RoxB. Fl. Lid. i. 637. — Wight and Aun. Prodi: i. 120. 



EosENTH. op. cit. 764. — RovLE, III. Himal. 141. ' Endl. Enchirid. 553. — LiNDL. Yeg. Kingd. 



3 A. Odorata Lour. (iV. Cochinch. ed. 1790, 462.— Ro-senth. np. cit. 768. 



173; — Camuiiium chiiieiise Rcmph. Uerli. ' AuBL. Oiiian. 8iippl. 33, t. 387. — Lamk. 



cmioin. vii. 28, t. 18), used in China to perfume III. t. 301.— DC. Prodi: i. 62G, n. 1.— Oi.iv. 



tea [Cng-ngaii). Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 336.— H. Bn. Diet. Encycl. des 



■' WiQHTand AuN. PjWc. i. 119. — Andcrsonia Sc. M(d. xii. 305. — C. guineensis G. Don, 



Rnhiiuka Roxn. Fl. Ind. ii. 213. — Spharosacme Load, llnrt. Ilrit. 168. — C. Toiikucouiia Gl'iLL- 



Itohituka Wall. ct Peiiu. Fl. ■Sin. Tent. i. 128. 



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