178 STRYCHNOS NUX-VOMICA 



OTHER PRODUCTS OP THE Nux VOMICA PLANT. Nux vomica bark 

 has been substituted for Cusparia or Angustura Bark, as is 

 described under Galipea Cusparia ; it has therefore been termed 

 false angust'ura bark. It is likewise known in Calcutta under 

 the name of Rohun ; from which circumstance it is also sometimes 

 substituted for the comparatively harmless bark of Soymida febri- 

 fugcij which, as is stated in our notice of this plant, is also known 

 by the same native name. Waring says, that nux vomica bark 

 forms the principal ingredient in the chief of the medicated oils in 

 common use by the natives of India as local applications to 

 leprous, syphilitic, and other obstinate eruptions. 



In some parts of India, the wood of the Nux Vomica plant, under 

 the native names of Goagurree and Kajra che lakor, is largely used 

 as a domestic medicine ; and its efficacy is supposed to be much 

 increased by the addition of a piece of the kernel of the coco-de- 

 mer (Lodoicea seychellarum). A decoction of the leaves is also 

 used as an external application in rheumatism. 



Steph. & Church., Med. Bot., by Burnett, pi. 52 ; Per. Mat. Med., 

 vol. ii, pt. 1, pp. 636 and 640 ; Per. Mat. Med., by B. & R., 

 p. 647; Pharmacographia, p. 384; U. S. Disp., by W. & B., 

 pp. 575 and 1415 ; Garr., Mat. Med., p. 308 ; Royle's Mat. 

 Med., by J. Harley, p. 515 ; Pharm. of India, by Waring, 

 p. 145 ; Gmelin's Chem., vol. xvii (1866), p. 589 ; Watts' Diet. 

 Chem., vol. iii, p. 243 ; Pharm. Journ., vol. xviii, 1st ser., p. 

 432, and Dymock, in vol. vii, 3rd ser., p. 109 ; Year Book of 

 Pharmacy, for 1875, pp. 289 and 306. 



DESCRIPTION OP PLATE. 



Brawn from a specimen in the British Museum collected on the Coromandel 

 Coast ; the fruit from a specimen in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 

 Society. 



1. A branch with leaves and flowers. 



2. Corolla opened. 



3. Calyx and pistil. 



4. Vertical, and 5. Transverse section of the ovary. 



6. Fruit. 



7. Section of the same. 



8. 9. Seed. 



10. Section of the same. 



(2-5 enlarged.) . 



