545 



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Santa Maria (Angola-Portuguese Colonists, Wehvitsch) ; Iparote 

 (Mexico, Palmer) ; Herba Santa Maria (Brazil, Hooper) ; Culen 

 (Chile, Hooper). —Sweet Pigweed, Mexican Tea, Jerusalem Oak, 

 American Wormseed. 



>dd, Xo. 412, 1908, Herb. Kew) ; Lower Congo, 



Angola, Mozambique Dist ,_.^ _.........^ ... ...^..v 



Avarm countries; naturalised in Florida, California and other 

 United States. 



Used medicinally, Oloke JMeji (Dodd, Herb. Kew), Angola 



(Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. iv. p. 898), by the Indians, Mexico, 



as a febrifuge (Palmer, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. xxi. 1SS6, 



p. 437), in the Antilles (Descourrilez. I.e.) and in| India— as an 



infusion or tea of the plant (Hooper, Agric. Ledger, No. 6, 19u4, 

 p. 68). 



An infusion is used in the treatment of indigestion, Chile 

 (Mus. Kew) and in the Museum there is exhibited a specimen of 

 " Serkys " Tea, described as a mixture of herbs from Lebanon 

 and Mecca including C. ambrosioides, as sold in Paris. 



Wormseed used as an anthelmintic. United States, is culti- 

 vated to a considerable extent in Maryland, where the distillation 

 of the plant for the oil is carried on chiefly from the fruit : but 

 sometimes from the leafy part of the plant (Henkel, seq 



The plant is under expe 

 the seed (Perfumery & Ess 



A sub-erect annual 2 ft. high; but according to Welwitsch 

 (Hiern, I.e.) commonly biennial or triennial ; and in general a. 

 common weed. Propagated from seed, and under cultivation 

 may be planted out about 1| ft. apart. 



^^f- — " American Wormseed — Chenopodium ambrosioides," in 

 " Weeds Used in Medicine," Henkel, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' 



iment 



seq 



Bull. No. 188, 1004, pp. 41-42._" Indian Wonnseed 



53-54 



"Thymol versus Chenopodium Oil," I.e. May 1919, jsp. 



139-140. ''Chenopodium in India," I.e. Sept. 1919, pp, 



231-232. " Thymol versus Chenopodium for Hookworm Dis- 

 ease," in The Agric. News, Barbados, xviii. Julv 26, 1919, pp. 



238-239. "The Treatment of Ankylostomiasis by Oil of 



Chenopodium," I.e. March 8th, 1010, p. 71. 



Basekla, Linn. 



BaseUa alba, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 94. 



/«.— Rumpf, Amb. v. t. 154; AVight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. iii. 

 t. 896 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. part U, f . 73 A-F. 



wames .—Bolongi (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot).— Indian 

 Spinach, Malabar Nightshade. 



Cameroons at 1000 ft. (Mann, No. 1250, Herb. Kew) ; Sierra 

 Leone, Abyssinia, East Africa and other parts of Tropical Africa, 

 also in India and Fast anrl HVsf TnHiVs 



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