MELIACE.-E. 



L. domesticum^^ of the Indian Archi23cIago, is the best known. Its 

 very bitter seeds are verraicidal, and its bark is used for smoking 

 meat. L. aqucum Jack, and humile Hassk., of Java, have also edible 

 fruits. Also in India Aglaia edulis "^ and Nyaldia racemosa Dennst, 

 which are congeneric ; in Java, W'dsura (?) pinnata Hassk. Animals 

 eat not only the pericarp, but also the fleshy coloured aril of several 

 Aglaia,^ Lansium^ and Amoora. A. Rohituka * of India has oleaginous 

 seeds whose fatty matter is iised for bu.rning and making soap. 

 The barkof i7e^«eû! frijuffa ^ is used for dyeing, and that of i7. Piscidia'^' 

 is employed by the fishermen to poison the rivers. 



A large number of Swietenleœ and Cedrehœ are celebrated for their 

 uses.^ The Carapas belong to the tropical coasts of the world. The 

 large pyramidal seeds of C. guianensis * yield an oil which, according 

 to AuBLET, the Galibis extract by boiling them in water, and then 

 pounding them and making them drain into a slab hollowed like a 

 gutter, which they expose to the rays of the sun. The negroes of 

 Guiana are satisfied sometimes to press out this paste in a straining 

 bag, the meshes of which are traversed by the oil. This, thick and 

 bitter, mixed with arnotto, is applied to the hair and skin, which it 

 preserves from the stings of insects, and especially from the attacks 

 of the Chigos (Pulex penetrans). It is probably the same species 

 that, growing on the western coast of tropical Africa, has received 

 the name of C. guineensis or Touloucouna^ and from whose seeds is 

 extracted also in that country an oil of Toidoncowia, or rather a sort 

 of butter, unctuous to the touch, melting in the hand, odorous, and 

 extremely bitter. The bark of the tree is also very bitter ; it has 

 been recommended as a febrifuge, and its properties were at first 

 thoug-ht to be due to an alcaloid resemblins; that of the Cinchona. 



' Bl. Sijdr. 165.— EoSEXTH. op. cit. 764.— ' RoxE. Bot. Mag. t. 1738.— DC. Prodr. i. 



LiNDL. Vcg. Kingd. 46-t {Laiigsat, Lauséh, Ayer- 624. — Rosenth. op. cit. 76.5. 



oyer). " IValsunt Fiscidia RoxB. Fl. Iiid. ii. 388.— 



2 MUnea edulis Roxb. Fl. Lid. i. 637.— Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 120. 



KosENTH. op. cit. 764. — RoYLE, III. Himal. 141. ' ExDL. Enchirid. 553. — LiNDL. Vcg. Kingd. 



3 A. Odorata Lour. (Fl. Ccchinch. ed. 1790, 462.— Eosexth. op. cit. 768. 



173 ; — Camunium chineuse Ru.mph. Serb. ^ Aubl. Giiiati. Suppl. 33, t. 387. — Lamk. 



amJom. vii. 28, t. 18), used in China to perfume III. t. 301.— DC. Prodr. i. 626, n. 1.— Oliv. 



tea {Cag-ngait). Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 336.— H. Bn. Diet. Encgcl. des 



, ■* WiQHTand ARN.P/f)(7)-. i. 119.— ^»i&rso«('a Se. Méd. xii. 30-5. — C. guineeiisis G. Dox, 



Rohituka Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 213.— Sphcerosacme Loud. Sort. Brit. 168. — C. Touloucouiia Guill. 



Rohituka Wall. et Peru. Fl. Sin. Tent. i. 128. 



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