MR LI ACE. F.. 401 



Mahogoni^ (fig. 472-477), a superb tree of tropical America, whose 

 coloured and odorous wood is so much sought after. It exudes a 

 sort of gum gi\7ing it its odour, not at all agreeable when it is fresh, 

 and which preserves it from worms. The bark is bitter, astringent, 

 febrifugal, anti-putrid. The fruit is used to extract an oil called 

 Caraba. S. fehrifuga.," become the type of the genus So?/nuda, has 

 also a useful reddish wood ; it is a tonic employed in India for ague 

 fits. The bark is especially used,^ its abuse may produce nervous 

 accidents, vertigo, and stupor. It is recommended for gangrene, 

 typhoid affections, and as astringent for diarrhoea ; a sort of gum- 

 kino is extracted from it. ChicJcrassia iabularis,* of the same 

 country, is also a beautiful tree with useful wood and strongly 

 astringent antidiarrhœic bark. Khaija senegalensis * is the Senegal 

 Mahogany or Cailcedra. The wood, analogous to that of Sivietenia, 

 is less beautiful, less valued, of a more vinous shade, retaining the 

 polish less permanently. It contains also a gum-resinous substance, 

 and its bark is employed for the same purposes as quinine, for ague 

 fits, flux wounds, htemorrhage. Cldoroxyhn Swietenia " yields one of 

 the Satin Woods^ of commerce, that of India or Atlas Wood. From 

 the incised bark flows a resin analogous to that of the Conifers, 

 especially Dammara^ having the same uses.» The leaves of Flindcrsia 

 are loaded with glandular punctuations, like Chloroxijlon and the 

 Rutaceœ ; ^ corresponding to the presence of an essential oil sometimes 

 extracted from F. Jusiral/s,^^ and especially F. mnboinensis.n The 

 sapid fruits of this serve as rasps to the natives. The Yellow Wood 



1 Jj. Spec. 2"! I. — Cav. Diss. vii. 365, t. 209. — ' On the structure of this wood, see Olit. 



TcKP. Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 170. — Mér et Del. S/em Diet. 10. The wood of all the useful 



Diet. Mat. Méd. ti. 615. — DC. Prodr. i. 625, n. Meliaceas ought to be studied in detail. 



1. GuiB. op. <;»<. iii. 588. — \jmj>i..Fl. Med.\ô5. ^ another species has been distinguished in 



KosENTH. o;). «V. 768. — CedrtisMahogojnM.u.1.. India, C. (f«/;arfo Buchan. whose resin is used 



(^Cédre des Antilks). to calk ships (Rosenth. loc. cit.). 



- See p. 505, note 2. — GniB. op. cit. iii. 583, » With which they are found to have cer- 



590.— LiKDL. Fl. Med. 155. — Rosenth. op. cit. tain incontestable affinities, but from which 



y(59^ their fruits and seeds will distinguish them. 



3 Rohiiia hurk. i» R- Bit. Fliiid. Voy. ii. 595, t. 1.— Benth. 



* See p. 506, note 1. Lixdl. Fl. Med. 157.— Fl. Austral, i. 388, n. 1.— Payer, Elém. 237, 



Rosenth. op. cit. 709. fig. 539. 



s See p. 505, note 4. — Gfin. op. cit. iii. n Tom. Z>(><. 8uppl. iv. 650.— DC. Prodr. 



588.— LiNBL. Fl. Med. 157.— Rosenth. op. cit. i. 625, n. 2.— Rosenth, op. cit. TtQ.—Arhor 



jgg_ radulifera Rumfh. Berli. Amboin. iii. 201, t. 129. 



6 See p. 508. note 2. -Rosenth. op. cit. — Poik. Dirt. vi. 58.— Buch. i)a'. x. (Cent. 5), 



709.-H.Bn. Did. Fnciicl. des. Se. Méd. xvi. t. 8 (Cajii Baroedaii, Radiilier). 



