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species from the United States, are mentioned as évacuants. They 

 are considered dangerous for small cattle. Their seeds produce 

 nausea and vomiting ; formerly an ointment was prepared from 

 them to destroy lice. The bark of E. atropurpureus is highly 

 drastic ; it is prescribed in America as antisyphilitic. From the fruit 

 of E. européens an insecticide powder is made, employed locally 

 against moth, to cure scab in horses, to cicatrise obstinate gangrenous 

 ulcers, to expel tapeworm, etc. In India, the bark of E. tingens 

 Wall, is used for treating affections of the eyes. The Mœodendra 

 are sometimes astringent ; at the Cape, E. croceum l is employed 

 against the bites of serpents; and in India E. Roxburghii" against 

 wounds and bums. The drupaceous fruits of many species are 

 alimentary ; especially that of E. sphœrophyllum, 3 a Cape species. 

 The berries of Salaria are also sometimes edible ; in Brazil are eaten 

 those of S. ettiptica, grandifolia, sylvestris, glomcrataf which are 

 sweet and succulent in the interior ; in India, those of S. viridiftora 

 Wight and Roxburghii Wall. ; in tropical Western Africa, those 

 of S. senegalensis 5 and of 8. piriformis, 6 as large as a pear, aromatic 

 and sweet. In ffippocratea, designated by our colonists under the 

 name of Béjugues or Bejucos, it is oftener the seed that is nutritious, 

 as in H. coniosa 7 in the Antilles, and H. Grahami Wight in India. 

 H. obcordata s is employed as an expectorant in Columbia, and 

 H. velutina 9 is administered for fever and headache at Sierra Leone. 

 The Rhacomas are diuretic, to which property they owe the name 

 Myginda ; the best known are the R. Uragoga 10 and Crossopeialum, 11 

 of Central America. Goupia glabra Aubl. (fig. 12) is astringent, and 

 is sometimes prescribed in cases of inflammation and ophthalmia. 

 Catha edulis l2 is a vegetable which, with Cocoa and Maté, has been 



1 DC. Prodi: ii. n. G.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. 6 Walp. Sep. i. 402.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 

 Cap. i. 468. — Hex erocea /Thbxb. — Rhamnus Ca- 374. — Calypso piriformis Dox, Gard. Diet. i. 629. 

 pensis Spreng. — Crocoxylum cxcelsum Eckl. et ' Sw. Fl.Iud. Occ.i. 77. — DC. Prodi: i. 56S, 

 Zeyh. (Saffraiihout). n. 12 [Amandier des Bois). 



2 Wight et Arv. Prodi: i. 157. — LlNDL. 8 Lamk. III. i. 100, t. 28, fig. Ï.—E. scandens, 

 Fl. Med. 107 \-r-Nereeja diehotoma Roxb. Jacq. Aiiici: 9, t. 9. 



3 Mystroxylon spharophylhtm Eckl. et Zeyh. 9 Afzel. ex Sprexg. N. Enid. iii. 234. — Oliv. 

 —Harv. and Soxd. Fl, Cap. i. 470 —M. Kuiu Fl. T op. Afr. i. 370. 



Eckl. et Zeyh. 10 Myginda Uragoga Jacq. Aiiici: t. 16. — 



4 Hart, ex Eosexth. p. cit. 796. In Brazil Lamk. 111. t. 76.— DC. Prodi: ii. J 2, n. 3.— 

 these fruits have the vernacular name of Sapata. Ci ossopetalum P. Br. Jam. t. 17, fig. 1. 



s DC. Prodi: i. 570. — Guillem ct Perr. Fl. " L. Spec. 169 (part.). — Maginda Rhacom 



Sen. Tent. i. 113, t. 27.— S. Affinis Hook. f. Sw. Fl. hid. Occ. 348.— DC. Prodi: n. 8. 



Niger, 281 [Kebett des Nègres). 1S See p. 10, note 2. 



