MELlACE.Ti. 487 



Carolina eliildi-cn eat them without inconvenience. The oil extracted 

 from the pulp is used for lighting and painting. The stones are em- 

 ployed in making chaplet beads, the leaves in dyeing, and the wood, 

 in cabinet-work. It is further said that iu a strong dose this plant 

 is pm-gative, that its bark cures chronic quinsy, hysterics, and 

 diarrhœa. The same properties have been attributed to M. scmper- 

 virens ^ from the Antilles, M. Azailirachtu ^ is also employed in 

 India as vermifuge. Its bitter, tonic, astringent bark is used for the 

 treatment of hysteria and intermittent fever. The oil of the fruit 

 is also used for lighting, and the plant is equally tinctorial. These 

 different bead-trees, acting probably only as astringent and anti- 

 diarrhœic, have been pointed out as specific against cholera. The 

 fruit may be used to prejiare a fermented liquor, considered a sto- 

 machic in India. The Trichilias are generally évacuant medicines. 

 Elhuja of the Arabs has received, on account of its emetic properties, 

 the name of T. emetica? Another South American species has been 

 named T. cathaitica^ According to Jacquin the négresses use the 

 purgative I'oot of T. trifoliolata as abortive.^ T. havensis ^ is con- 

 sidered in South America as efficacious for dropsy, jaundice, affec- 

 tions of the liver and spleen, syphilis, and even sterility. There are, 

 besides, species of the same genus that are astringent : thus, T. mos- 

 chata^ of Jamaica, produces the Jurihali bark, reported as bitter and 

 astringent, a remedy for intestinal obstructions, ce^jhalic affections, 

 remittent fevers, typhoid affections, small-pox, and measles. We 

 again meet with the same variety of properties in the used species 



1 Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 737.— 3f. Azederach Maecg».). 



L. Spec. 6S0 {Lilas des Antilles). = L. Sjjcc. 5cl.— Tacq. Amer. 129, t. 82.— DC. 



2 L. Spec. 550.— Cav. loc. eit. t. 20%.—Âzadi- Prodi: i. 623, n. 14.— Lindl. 11. Med. 152 (Cer- 

 rachta indiea A. Ji'ss. Meliac. G9, t. 2, n. 5. soa macho of the Spaniards, Kerseboom of the 



3 Vahl, Symb. i. 31.— DC. Prodr. i. 620, n. 5. 



—Lindl. Fl. Mcd.\5\.—Gvii.\,. et Peru. Fl. Sen. « jAca. Amer. 129, t. 175, fig. 38.— H. B. K. 



Tent. i. 126.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 335.— £/- Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 216.— DC. Prodr. D. 6.— 



caja FousK. Fl. ^g.-Arab. 127. — Roehetia chi- Endl. Enchirid. 652. — Kosenth. op. cit. 765. — 



loensis Del. Roch. Pcui. Voy. Bot. n. 47. — Ma. T. glabra Ii. Syst. xiii. 294 (Marinheiro da folha 



fiireira oleifera Bertol. Misc. Bot. ix. 6, t. 2. — larga Makcgr. ex Mér. et Del. loc. cit. 767). 



Oeniustephanus tomeiitosiis Fenzl. Flora (1844), ' Sw. Fl. Ind. Ore. 735. — Eobenth. op. cit. 



312. This plant is used by the Arabs to shelter 766. — T. odorata Andr. Bot. Pepns. t. 637 (ex 



the coffee plantations. They prepare an anti- DC Prodr. n.S). — T.spondioides J acq. {fig. i67~ 



psoric ointment with the oil of sesamura mixed 471), and T. Catiyoa A. S. H., the wood of 



with its seeds and fruits (i)iO!(.(?-(;?-^ffi, i?o/iff). which is employed in cabinet-work, are also 



■' Mart. Rosenth. op. cit. 765. — Moschoxylon species used for dyeing (Rorestu. op. cit. 766). 

 catharticnm Mart. [Maritihciro da folha minda 



