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semblés that of the preceding, but which are distiuguished by the 

 uniform dull yellow tint (or blackish brown when they have lost 

 their outer coat), in size a little less or at most nearly equal to 

 oui- Ricinus, and by the projection, often very slight, of three 

 longitudinal lines which they bear on the sides, and on the middle 

 of the interior face. The oil called Croton., j^ressed from these seeds, 

 is inwardly a powerful purgative in a small dose of one or two tli-ops, 

 and outwardly, a rubefacient and eruptive of terrible causticity. 

 Among other seeds of Euphorhiacece, rich in piu'gatives, we must 

 yet mention those of Antliostema Auhrijanum^ a shrub from the 

 Gaboon, reported the most powerful of all ; Jutropha multij'ida^ 

 large as filberts, often employed ui warm countries ; of the wild 

 Jairoplia or Jatropha gossypijblia,^ very small, but equally active 

 as évacuants, and used in tropical America and Africa ; of 

 Aleurites moluccana,^ having the shape and size of a small chestnut 

 with a stony envelope, and which, piu-ging much less energetically, 

 may, under certain conditions, be employed as an aliment ; those of 

 the Andaaçu of Brazil,^ often two in number in a thick and volu- 

 minous stone, slightly tetragonal, broader than long and also rich in 

 purgative oil, analogous in its properties to that of Ricinus ; those 

 again of Hura crepitans^ (fig. 216-218), ten or twenty in number, 



— LiNDL. Fl. Med. 181. — Kl. in Haijii. Arzn. mal ile ventre, Médiciuier à Feuilles de Cotonnier, 



xiv. t. 3. — Pereira, Ehm. Mat. Med. éd. 4, ii. de Staphisaigre, de Groseillier.) 



p. i. 403. — RosENTH. iSijn. PI. Diaph. 833. — * Aleurites moluceana'W. Spec. iv. 590. — M. 



Rev. in Fl. Mêd. du XIX« siicle, i. 421.— L. Arg. Prodr. TIZ.—A. triloba Forst. Char. 



March, in Adausonia, i. 232, t. 9, 10.— Berg. Gen. 112, n. 56. — A. commutata, Geisel. Crof. 



et ScHM. Off. Gew. {Croton). — MoQ. Bot. Méd. Mon. 82. — A. ambhmx 'Pebs. Sijnops. 587. — A. 



399, fig. 108. — C. Pavana Wall. Cat. n. 7722 Juss. Euphorb. t. 12. — Camirium cordifolium 



A. — C. Januihjota Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Gjertx. Fruet. ii. 195. — C. oleosum Reinw. — 



xiv. 258. — Tujlium officinale Kl. in Nov. Act. Jiiglans Camirium LouR. Fl. Cochinch. (éd. 



Nat. Cur.nvs.. Suppl. i. 418. {Bois des Mo- 1790), 573. 



luques, purgatif, de Pavane, de Tii/li). ^ Jolinnnesia princeps Vellos. Alograf. 199. 



• H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 366, not. Accord- — M. Arg. Prcdi: 716. — Anda Q-omcsii A. S. 



ing to Avertî-Lecomte, a single drop of the cil H. Fl. Us. Bras. t. ôi, ôô. — H. Bn. in Adan- 



e.xtracted from the seeds purges violently. soma, iv. 284 ; in Diet. Encijcl. Sc. Méd. iv. 304. 



^ Jatropha multifida L. Spec. 1006. — Desr. A. brasiliensis Raddi, Mem. Quar. Plant. Bras. 



in Lamk. Diet. iv. 10.— Sw. Obs. 368.— GuiK. 2ô.—Aiidiscns pciilaphylliis VEi.hos.— Aleurites 



loc. cit. 356, fig. 455. — Pereira, op. cit. 426. — pentajih ijlla Wall. — Guibourt distinguishes 



M. Arq. Prodr. 1089, n. 35.— Adenorhopium Cop. cit. 361, fig. 460) another Anda of Brazil, 



multijidum Pohl, PI. Bras. i. 16. {Arbre de with a round seed, which is perhaps a Jatropha. 



corail, Médicinier d'Espagne, Noisetier purgatif, ''Mura crepitans L. Spec. 1431. — Turp. in 



grand Ben purgatif .) Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 279. — Spach, Suit, à 



3 /. gossgpifolia L. Spec. 1006.— Sw. Obs. Buffon, t. 76.— H. En. Euphorb. t. 6.— M. Arg. 



336.— M. Arg. Prodr. 1086.— Mér. et Del. Prodr. 1229.— Guib. loc. cit. 360, fig. 459. 



Diet. Mat. Méd. iii. 676. — Rosenth. op. cit. Same properties in if. polyandra (H. Bn. 



828. — Guib. loc. cit. 354, fig. 453. {Herbe au Euphorb. 544), a Mexican species. 



