^I ELI ACE M. 491 



Mahogonu (fig. 472-477), a superb tree of tropical America, whose 

 coloured and odorous wood is so much sought after. It exudes a 

 sort of gum giving it its odour, not at all agreeable when it is fresh, 

 and which preserves it from worms. The bark is bitter, astringent, 

 febrifugal, anti-putrid. The fruit is used to extract an oil called 

 Caraba. S. fehrifuga,^ become the type of the genus Soymida, has 

 also a useful reddish wood ; it is a tonic employed in India for ague 

 fits. The bark is especially used,^ its abuse may produce nervous 

 accidents, vertigo, and stupor. It is recommended for gangrene, 

 typhoid affections, and as astringent for diarrhoea ; a sort of gum- 

 kino is extracted from it. Chickrassia tabularis,^ of the same 

 country, is also a beautiful tree with useful wood and strongly 

 astringent antidiarrhcBic bark. Khuija sencgalciisis ^ is the Senegal 

 Mahogany or Cailcedra. The wood, analogous to that of Swietenia, 

 is less beautiful, less valued, of a more vinous shade, retaining the 

 polish less permanently. It contains also a gum-resinous substance, 

 and its bark is employed for the same purposes as quinine, for ague 

 fits, flux wounds, h«jmorrhage. Chloroxyhn Swicfemi '^ yields one of 

 the Satin Woods'" of commerce, that of India or Atlas Wood. From 

 the incised bark flows a resin analogous to that of the Conifers, 

 especially Danunara, having the same uses.^ The leaves of Flindersia 

 are loaded with glandular punctuations, like Chloroxglon and the 

 Rutacece ; "^ corresponding to the presence of an essential oil sometimes 

 extracted from F. Australis,^^ and especially F. amboinensisM The 

 sapid fruits of this serve as rasps to the natives. The Yellow Wood 



1 L. Spcc.2'\. — Cav. Disj. vii. 365, t. 209. — ' On Ihe structure of this wood, see Oliv. 



Trup. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 170.— M^a et Del. Stem Dicnt. 10. The wood of all the useful 



Dirt. Mat. Med. vi. 615. — DC. Prodr. i. 625, n. Meliaceas ought to he studied in detail. 



1. — GiiB. op. cit. iii. 588. — Lindl. -F/. J/frf. 155. ' Another species has heon distinguished in 



— RosENTH. 0/). ciV. 768. — CedrusMahngoni iiiLL. India, C. dupadnlivcHAs. Tfihoae resin is used 



( Cedre dcs Antilles). to calk ships (Rosenth. he. eit.). 



- See p. 505, note 2. — Gum. op. cit. iii. 588, ' With which they are found to have cor- 



590. — LiNDL. Fl. Med. 155. — Rosenth. lyp. cit. tain incontestable affinities, hut from which 



7gg. their fruits and seeds will distinguish thera. 



s firjAwHO hark. "> R. Bb. Flind. Von. ii. 595, t. 1.— Benth. 



< See p. 5C6, note 1. Lindl. Fl. iUd. 157.— Fl. Austral, i. 388, n. 1.— rAVEE, EUm. 237, 



Rosenth. op. cit. 769. fig. 539. 



' Seo p. 505, note 4. — Gtin. op. cit. iii. . " Pom. Diet. Suppl. iv. 650.— DC. Prodr. 



588.— Lindl. Fl. Med. 157.— Rosenth. op. cit. \. 625, n. 2.— Rosenth, op. cit. 170.— Arlior 



YQg radulifera Rumi'H. Herb. Amboin. iii. 201, 1. 129. 



• See p. 508, note 2. — Rosenth. op. cit. — Roik. Diet. vi. 58.— Butii. Dc. x. (Cent. 5), 



769. -II.Bn. Diet. Encijcl. de.s. Sc. MM. xvi. t. S [Cajct Baroedait, Ruduliir), 



