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ecies from the United States, are mentioned as evacuants. They 

 are considered dangerous for small cattle. Their seeds produce 

 nausea and vomiting ; formerly an ointment was prepared from 

 them to destroy lice. The bark of ^. atropurpureiis is highly 

 drastic; it is prescribed in America as antisyphilitic. From the fruit 

 of E, europceus an insecticide powder is made, employed locally 

 against moth, to cure scab in horses, to cicatrise obstinate gangrenous 

 ulcers, to expel tapeworm, etc. In India, the bark of E. tingens 

 Wall, is used for treating aifections of the eyes. The Eloeodendra 

 are sometimes astringent ; at the Cape, E, croceum ^ is employed 

 against the bites of serpents; and in India E, Roxlurghii^ against 

 wounds and burns. The drupaceous fruits of many species are 

 alimentary ; especially that of E. splicer opliyllum^ a Cape species. 

 The berries of Salacia are also sometimes edible ; in Brazil are eaten 

 those of S. elliptica^ grandifoUa^ sylvestris^ glomerata^^ which are 

 sweet and succulent in the interior ; in India, those of ^. viridiflora 

 Wight and Roxhurghii Wall. ; in tropical Western Africa, those 

 of S. senegalensis ^ and of S. piriformis ^^ as large as a pear, aromatic 

 and sweet. In Hippocratea^ designated by our colonists under the 

 name of Bejugues or Bejucos^ it is oftener the seed that is nutritious, 

 as in H. comosa ^ in the Antilles, and H. Grahami Wight in India. 

 H, ohcordata^ is employed as an expectorant in Columbia, and 

 H. velutina ^ is administered for fever and headache at Sierra Leone. 

 The Rhacomas are diuretic, to which property they owe the name 

 Myginda ; the best known are the B, Uragoga ^^ and Crossopetalum^^ 

 of Central America. Goupia glabra Aubl. (fig. 12) is astringent, and 

 is sometimes prescribed in cases of inflammation and ophthalmia. 

 Catha edulis ^^ is a vegetable which, with Cocoa and Mate^ has been 



1 DC. Prodr. ii. n. 6.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. ^ Walp. Eep. i. 402.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 Cap. i. 468. — Ilex cro^e^ ^Thunb. — Rhamnus Ca- 374. — Calypso pt/riformis Doth, Gard. Diet. i. 629. 

 pensis Spreng. — Crocoxylum cxcelsum Eckl. et ' Sw. Fl. Ind, Occ. i. 77. — DC. Prodr. i. 568, 

 Zeyh. {Saffranhout). n. 12 {Amandier des JBois). 



2 Wight et Arn. Prodr. i. 157. — Lindl. ^ Lamk. III. i. 100, t. 28, fig. l.—E. scandens, 

 Fl. Med. 107. — Nereeja dichotoma Koxb. Jacgi. Amer. 9, t. 9. 



3 Mijstroxijlon sphcerophyllum Eckl. et Zeyh. ^ Afzel. ex Sprexg. N. Entd. iii. 234. — Oliv. 

 —Harv. and Sond. Fl. Gap. i, 470— ilf. Euhu Fl. T op. Afr. i. 370. 



Eckl. et Zeyh. w Myginda Uragoga Jacq. Amer. t. 16. — 



4 Mart, ex Rosenth. p. cit. 796. In Brazil Lamk. 111. t. 76.— DC. Prodr. ii. J 2, n. 3. — 

 these fruits have the vernacular name of Sapata. Ci ossopetalum P. Br, Jam. t. 17, fig. 1. 



* DC. Prodr. i. 570. — Guillem et Perr. Fl. ^^ L. Spec. 169 (part.). — Maginda Rhacom 



Sen. Tent. i. 113, t. 21.— S. Affinis Hook. f. Sw. Fl. Ind. Oce. 348.— DC. Prodr. n. 8. 



Niger, 281 {Kebett des Negres). 12 gg^ p^ ^q, note 2. 



