tTLMAOE^. 176 



has edible seeds ; its root is astringent, as is also that of A. integri- 

 folia^ and is employed against diarrhoea and scabby affections. The 

 juice of the fruit has been extolled for maladies of the eyes, and 

 the wood and bark have served to prepare astringent gargles. The 

 bark of A. Lakooclia} in India supplies an astringent medicine, as 

 also that of A. puhescens^^ an Indian species the bark of which is 

 used as an antidiarrhoetic and administered in cases of pain, stiffness 

 of limbs, contusions and tumours. In Java and Malabar A, BlumeP 

 has the same reputation. From its buds and leaves is prepared an 

 ointment which is applied to sores and hemorrhoidal tumours. Its fruit, 

 prescribed against diarrhoea, contains an oil employed for culinary 

 purposes. It is edible, as is also that of another Javan species, 

 A, Kertau^ In Cochin China is eaten that of A, Polyphema^^ and in 

 the East Indies those of ^. imperialis Koxb., parvifolia Wight, elastica 

 Keinw., longifolia H. Cels, Icevis Hassk. and rigida Bl.^ The fol- 

 lowing are also reported as Artocarpece with edible fruit : in central 

 America Tropins Americana L. ; in Guyana, Bagassa guianensis Aubl. ; 

 iu Brazil, Pourouma acuminata^ hicolor^ and cecropicefolia^ and 

 many Cecropice. These are almost always astringent plants.^° C, 

 peltata^^ is much employed in the Antilles and central America for 

 various purposes. Its caustic latex is used to destroy warts, corns 

 and scabs. Its leaves and inner bark are very astringent, antidiar- 

 rhoetic and antigonorrhcetic. Of its hollow stems and branches the 



^ RoxB. Fl. Ind. iii. 624. — Wight, Icon. t. dulate, of an agreeable taste ; and these species 



681 {Bhea-phul-Burhul Bengal). are said to deserve cultivation as fruit trees. 



2 W. Spec. iv. 189.— Trec. loc. cit. 122.— A. (Mart. Reis.m. 1130). 



hirsuta Roxb. — Amjeli Rheed. Hort. Malab, iii. ® Mart. ^5^. Mat. Med. Bras. 34. — Miq. loc. 



25, t. 32. at. 130, t. 39. 



3 Trec. loc.cit. 111.—^. pubesccns Bl. Bijdr. ^ Mart. Reis. iii. 1130; Mat. Med. 34.— Miq. 

 481 (nee W.).— Zoll. Verz. 76 {Bendaak). loc. cit. 123, t. 36.— P. multijida Trec. 



•* Zoll. ex Rosenth. op. cit. 1108. The same ^° Notably C. concolor W. Eumboldtiana Kl. 



author also cites as very dangerous the juice of (C peltata W. not L.). See Rosenth. op. cit. 



A. venenosa ZolIj. 197. 



5 Pers. Si/N. ii. 531. — T«ec. loc. cit. 115. — ^^ 1j. Pug. PI. Jam. Jmosn. Acad. y. 410. — 



Polyphema Ghampeden Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. Jacq. Obs. ii. t. 46, fig. 4; Amer.i. 262. — Mart. 



1790), 647 {TJampeda, Caxj Mitnai of the Anna- Reis. iii. 1130 ; Fl. Bras. Urtic. 210.— Miq. loc, 



mites). cit. 149. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 275. — Endl. 



^ The fruit of A. brasiliensis Gomez, which Fnchirid. 169. — Mer. et Del. Diet. Mat. Med. 



is probably only a species introduced from India, ii. 166. — Bosenth. op. cit. 197. — Yaruma Ovied. 



is cited as edible. Swnar. (ed. 1547), fol. 82, b. — Sloan. Mist. i. 



? Mart. Syst. Mat. Med. Bras. 34.— Miq. in 137, t. 88, fig. 2, t. 89 {Bois-trompette, Bois- 



Mart. Fl. Bras. Urtic. 130, t. 40 {Ambauba do canon, Figuier de Surinam, Shake-wood of the 



Vinho, Mansa). Its fruit and that of the fol- English, 

 lowing species are mucilaginous, sweetish aci- 



