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Native of the West Indies and S. America ; wild or cultivated. 
Pis fruit or Calabash is used in the West Indies, &c., for various 
mestic purposes—cups, spoons, bowls, boxes for tobacco, water 
botiles: kettles, &c., many of the articles being ornamented with 
carving. e pulp 1s used medicinally, as a diuretic, French 
Guiana (Heckel, Les. Pl. Med. et Toxiq. Guy. Franc. in Ann. 
Inst. Col. Marseille, iv. 1897, p. 100); with other ingredients 
makes an excellent cough remedy (Lunan, Hort. Jamaicensis, 
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p. 140) and various medicinal uses are attributed to it generally. 
In the West Indies a syrup is made from the pulp of the fruit, 
used in dysentery and as a a: in West in the ieu 
Ref," remita Cure te T rennes PS Indiea, 
Dymock, Warden & Hooper, iii. pp. 24-26. 
STEREOSPERMUM, Cham. 
Stereospermum Kunthianum, Cham.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2 
lil. IER Adansonia, ii. t. 4 (S. dentatum) ; Bureau, Monogr. 
Bignoniaceae, t. 29 (S. den ntatum), Malpighia, viii. (1894) t. 9 
Ne dentatum) ; Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 1909, App. xxii. p. 38, 
14 ; Agric. Col. 1911, Suppl. p. 119. 
Vernac. names.—Ayada (Oloke-Meji, + Samr (Arabic, 
unen Arghesana, Brghesans — Fio ni). 
NEWBOULDIA, Seem. 
Newbouldia laevis, Seem. ; F1. Ine: Air. IV. Sect. 2, p. 521. 
Ill.—Pal. de. Beauv. FI. Oware & Benin, i. t. 29 (Spathodea 
laevis); Bot. Mag. t. 3681 (Spathodea pe lag a Hortic. Univ. 
Mag. t. 4537 (Spathodea la pun. Ead , Le Jard. Fl. i. WIES 
t. 5 Spathodea laevis); Bureau, M oido DE t. 15; 
