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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



often contains plants active or suspected. The bark of C. scandons l 

 has long been known in North America as emetic, évacuant, narcotic. 

 The root of C. senegalensis? used as a gentle purgative, is, at the 

 same time, bitter and, we are assured, astringent (?), and is 

 employed against chronic diarrhoea. At the Cape there is a species 

 of the same genus bearing the name C. venenatus. 3 It is likewise 

 dangerous for the severe or poisoned wounds caused by its spines. 

 In India an oil extracted from the seeds of C. paniculatus i is used in 

 the treatment of beriberi. C. Orixa 5 of Japan is enumerated among 

 the medicinal plants of that country ; and in Peru, Ruiz and Pavon 

 have notified C. macrocarpus 6 as producing savoury alimentary buds 

 and an edible oil extracted from the seeds. C. verticillatus 7 of the 

 same authors also bears oleaginous seeds in Peru. Maytenus or 

 C. Boaria 8 is an energetic évacuant. From its leaves and branches 

 is prepared a decoction applied to burns caused by contact with 

 Elms caustica? Its seeds, like those of C. macrocarpus, furnish an 

 edible oil. Many species of Euoni/mus have analogous properties. 

 E. européens 1 " (fig. 6, 7), latifolius, 11 verrucosus 1 * (fig. 1-5), 

 European species, and E. amcricanus^ obovatus, u and atrop>urpurcus^ 



1 L. Spec. 285. — ScHKHUB, Ilandb. i. t. 47. — 

 DC. Prodi: ii. C, n. 15. — Eronymus scandais 

 JI'KMH {Bourreau els Arbres). 



2 Lamk. Diet. i. 661. — Guillem. et Peru, 

 Fl. Sen. Tent. i. 143. —C. phyllacanthus Lhék. 

 Sert. 6, n. 28.— C. decolor Del. Cent. pi. Afr. 100, 

 t. 3, fit;. G (Tick. Snail, Ghenondek). 



3 Var. (IIarv. and Sond, Fl. cap. i. 459) du 

 C. buxifolius L. — Calha venenata Presl. 



4 W. Spec. i. 1125.— Roxu. Fl. Iiid. i. 621.— 

 Royle, III. Mimed. 107.— Lindl. Fl. Med. 198. 

 — C. nutans Roxu. loc. cit. 623. — C. Bolhianus 

 DC. Prodr. n. 44. 



6 Orixa Thunii, Fl. Jap. 3. 



« Fl. Per. iii. 8, t. 230, fig. 16.— DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 6, n. 12. — Hceiikea mnttiflora R. et Pav. 

 Syst. 65. 



' R. ct Pav. Fl. Per. iii. 6, t. 229, fig. B.— 

 Maytenus verticillatus DC. Prodr. ii. 10, n. 4. 



8 C. MnytcitiisW . Speci. 1127. — Senacia May- 

 tenus Lamk. III. n. 2712. — Maytenus Boaria 

 Mol. Chtt. 152.— Desr. Diet. Suppl. iv. 2.— 

 M. Chilensis DC. Prodr. n. 3. — Lindl. Bot. Bey. 

 t. 1702; Fl. Med. 198.— Maiten Feuill. Obs. iii. 

 39, t. 27. In Brazil the leaves are equally used 

 as a febrifuge (Reiss. Mart. Fl. Bras.Celastr. 10). 



9 According to Feuillée, even the shadow 

 causes swellings which disfigure a man. In 

 these accidents the branches of Maytenus are 

 put in infusion, boiled, and the body wnshed 

 with the decoction is speedily restored to its 

 natural condition. 



10 L. Spec. 286, a. — DC Fl. Fr. iv. 620; 

 Prodr. ii. 4, n. 1. — Gren. et Godr. Fl. dc Fr. i. 

 331.— Mer. tt Del. Did. Mm. MAI. iii. 294.— 

 Rosenth. op. cit. 791. — Cazin, PI. Mel. Indiy. 

 éd. 3, 460 {Bonnet-de-prêtre, Garais, Bois Carré 

 B. à Lardoirex). 



11 Scop. Fl. Carniol. i. 165.— Jacq. Fl. Austr. 

 t. 289.— Duham. Arbr. éd. nouv 3, t. 7.— DC. 

 Prodr. n. 3. — Gren. et Godr. Inc. cit. 332. — 

 E. Européens $ L. 



12 Scop. Fl. carniol. éd. 2, n. 268. — Jacq. loc. 

 cit. t. 49. — Duham. loc. cit. t. 8 {Fusain lépreux). 



13 L. Spec. 286.— Duham. Inc. cit. t. 9.— A. 

 Gray, Man. éd. 5, 116. — F. lempervirens Marsh, 

 Arbr. Amer. n. 3. 



14 JJ UÏT , Gai. i. 155. 



n Jaco. Hurt. Vindob. ii. t. 120.— Tukf. Diet. 

 Se. Nat. Atl. t. 272. — F. carolinensis Marsh, op. 

 cit. n. 1. 



