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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



its bark, leaves, flowers and fruit, mixed with oil of Sesame, are 

 employed in the treatment of aphtha and angina. 0. chincnsis^ is 

 emollient ; its leaves are used in cataplasms. The fruit of 0. aspera^ 

 is edible ; in Java an infusion from its leaves is considered salutary 

 in the treatment of angina. 0. virusana^ is reputed antisyphilitic in 

 Mauritius. The fruit of Blcikea is edible and in most cases dyes red; 

 J5. j^arasitica ^ and guianensis (fig. 39) are particularly mentioned. 

 The fruit oi Bellucia, for example B. hrasiliensis,^ arborescens,^ Host- 

 manni ^ and grossularioides^ (fig. 40), has the same uses. An infusion 

 of Tihouchina aspera ® is taken, in Guyana, against angina and bron- 

 chitis. The bark of T. Maximiliana,^^ in Brazil, yields a black dye. 

 T, holosericea ^^ and Langsdorffiana^'^^ from the same country, are said 

 to dye black or violet, and are prescribed in infusion against angina. 

 Brackyotum canescens ^^ is considered, in the Andes, salutary in 

 diseases of the urinary organs, and even in stone. In Jamaica, the 

 aromatic flowers of Meriana leucantha Sw., purpurea Sw., and rosea 

 Tuss. are employed as pectorals. All the parts, but especially the 

 buds, balsamic and anticatarrhal, of Microlicia grandiflora,^'^ from 

 Guyana and Brazil, are prescribed in pulmonary affections. Hen- 

 riettea, particularly H. flavescens,^^ H. Kapphriana Steud. and H, 



^ L. Spec. 490 (not Bot^ Mag. t. 4026).— 0. 

 angustifoUa Don. — O.dtcora^S'xiA,. — 0. glabrata 

 Wall.— 0. linearis Bl. — 0. myrtifolia Bl. — 

 Tristemma angustifolin'm, Bl. Bijdr. 1079. 



2 Bl. Flora (1831), ii. 474.— Wight, Icon. 377. 

 — M. aspera L. Fl. Zeyl. 76. — Asterostoma 

 asperuni Bl. 



3 M. virvsamim Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 290. 

 — Tristemma virusanutn Co.mmers. /. Gen. 329. 

 — DC. Frodr. iii. 144. — T. mauritiana PoiR. 

 Bid. viii. 956. 



^ Don, Mem. Wern, Soc. iv. 327. — Topobea 

 parasitica AruL. Guian. i. 467, t. 189. 



° Nal'd. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xvi. 104. 



^ M. arhorescens Aubl. Guian. 420, t. 163. — 

 Loreya arborescens DC. Prodr. iii. 179. — Naud. 

 loc. cit. xviii. 109. 



7 Naud. loc. cit. xvi. 103. 



8 Tri. Melast. 141.—^. Aubletii NAro.— J5. 

 mnltiflora Karst. — M. grossularioides L. Spec. 

 558. — Blahea qicinquenervia ArsL. Guian. 595, t. 

 210. — Apatilia blakeoides Desvx. Ham. Prodr. 

 42. — Ihchyranthera laevigata Steud. {Coronillo, 

 of Panama.) 



3 AuKL. Guian. 446, t. 177.— DC. Prodr. iii. 



144.— i^. aromatica Vahl. Eel. i. 41.— T. Tibou- 

 c/iina Desrx. lamk. Piit. iv. 49. — Don, Mem. 

 JFern. Soc. iv. 288. — Rh'xia aspera W. Spec. ii. 

 304. — Lasiandra Tibovchiva Naud. Ann. Sc.Nat. 

 ser. 3, xiii. 153. — Pier ma Tibouchinum Tri. 

 Melast. 45. 



^0 lasiandra Maximili ana DC. Prodr. iii. 128. 

 — Pleroma Maximilianum Tri. Melast. 43. 



^^ M. holosericea Sw. Obs. 176. — M. argenlea 

 Desrx. — M. clavata Pers. — Rhexia holosericea 

 B. Rhex. t. 12. — lasiandra proteceformis DC. — 

 L. argentea DC. — Pleroma holosericeiirn Don. — 

 P. argent eum A. Gray. 



^'Rhexia Izngsdorjiana B. Rhex. t. 51. — Os- 

 bickia Langsdorffiana Sprenq. Syst. ii. 312. — 

 lasiandra langsdorfiana DC. — L. Gardner%i 

 Naud. — Pleroma Iangsdorffi,anum Tri. 



!•* Tri. Melast. 48. — Rhexia canescens B. — 

 Chcetogastra canescens DC. 



'^ Lavoisiera grandijiora Naud. Ann, Sc. Kat. 

 ser. 3, ii. 148; xii. 217. 



^^ M. flavescens Aubl. Guian. 423, t. 164. — 

 Oss<ea flavescens DC. Prodr. iii. 169. — Loreya 

 flavescens 'Navd. loc. oj7. xviii. 110. — Henriettella 

 flavescens Tri. 



