26 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



often contains plants active or suspected. The bark of O. scandens ^ 

 has long been known in North America as emetic, evacuant, 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? 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'^ is used in 

 the treatment of leriberi. C. Orixa^ of Japan is enumerated among 

 the medicinal plants of that country ; and in Peru, Euiz and Pa von 

 have notified C. macrocarpus ^ as producing savoury alimentary buds 

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

 same authors also • bears oleaginous seeds in Peru. Maytenus or 

 C. Boaria^ is an energetic evacuant. From its leaves. and branches 

 is prepared a decoction applied to burns caused by contact with 

 Rhus causUca.^ Its seeds, like those of C. macrocarpus, furnish an 

 edible oil. Many species of Euonymus have analogous properties. 

 E. europcuus ^° ■ (fig. 6, 7), latifoUus,^^ verrucosus ^^ (fig. 1-5), 

 European ppecies, and^. americanus,^^ obovatus,^^ and atropurpureus^^ 



' L. Spee. 285. — Sohkhur, Handh. i. t. 47. — ' According to FetiiI/Lee, even the shadow 



DC. Prodr. ii. 6, n. 15. — Eoonymus scandens causes swellings whicli disfigure a man. In 



MoiNtH [Bourreau cUs Arbres). these accidents the branches of Maytenus are 



^ Lamk. Diet. i. 661. — Guillem. et Peru, put in infusion, hoUed, and the body washed 



Ft. Sen. Tent. i. 143. —C. phyllacanthus Lniii. with the decoction is speedily restored to its 



Sert. 6, n. 28. — C. decolor T)t.l., Cent. ph.Afr. 100, natural condition. 



t. S, Sig. 6 {JDek. Suatt, Ghenondei:). " L; Spec. 286, a. — DC Fl. I'r. iv. 620; 



^ Var. (Harv. and Sond, Fl. cap. i. 459) du Prodr. ii. 4, n.l.— Gben. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. i. 



G. luxifolius Ii. — Catha venenata Presl. 331. — Mer. tt Del. Diet. Mat. Med. iii. 294. — 



* W. Spec. i. 1125.— KoxB. Fl. Ind. i. 621.— Eosenth. op. cit. 791.— Cazin, PI. M&l. Indig. 



RoTTLE, III. Simal. 167.— Lindl. Fl. Med. 198. ed. 3, 460 {Bonnet-de-prStre, Garais, Bois Carre 



— C. nutans EoxB. loc. eit. 623. — C. Sothianus B. a Lardoirex). 



DC. Prodr. n. 44. " Soop. Fl. Carniol. i. 165.— Jacq. Fl. Arntr. 



' Orixa. Thunb, PI. Jap. 3. t. 289.— Duham. Arbr. ed. nouv. 3, t. 7.— DO. 



5 Fl. Per. iii. 8, t. 230, fig. 16.— DO. Prodr. Prodr. n. 3.— Ghbn. et Godr. loe. cit. 332.— 



ii. 6, 11. 12. — Hcenkea multiflora E. et Pav. E. Europaus /3 L. 



Syst, 65. '2 Scop. Fl. carniol. ed. 2, n. 268. — Jacq. loe. 



' E. et Pay. Fl. Per. iii. 6, t. 229,' fig. B.— cit. t. 49.— Dtiham. loc. eit. t. 8 [Fusain lepreux). 



Maytemis verticillatus BC. Prodr. ii. 10, n. i. '^ L. Spec. 286. — Duham. loc. cit. t. 9. — A. 



8 C Maytenus W. Spec. i. 1127- — Senacia May- Gray, Man. ed. 5, 116. — E. sempervirens Marsh, 



tenus Lamk. III. n. 2712. — Maytenus Boaria Arbr . Amer. n. Z. 



MoL. Chil. 152.— Desr. Diet. Suppl. iv. 2.— " Nutt. Gen. i. 155. 



M. Chilensis DO. Prodr. n. 3. — Lindl. Bot. Beg. '^ Jacq. Hort. Vindob. ii. t. 120. — TtrRP. Diet. 



t. 1702 ; Fl. Med. 198.— Maiten Feuill. Obs. iii. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 272.— .B. carolinensis Marbh, op. 



39, t. 27. In Brazil the leaves are equally used cit. u. 1. 

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



