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species from the TJnited States, are mentioned as evaouants. 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 antisyphilitio. Erom the fruit 

 of E. europceus 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 Mmodendra 

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

 against the bites of serpents; and in India E. RoxhurgUP against 

 wounds and burns. The drupaceous fruits of many species are 

 alimentary; especially that of E. sphcerophyllum,^ a Cape species. 

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

 those of S. elliptica, grandifolia, sylvesfris, glomeraia,'^ which are 

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

 "Wight and Roxhurghii Wall. ; in tropical Western Africa, those 

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

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

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

 as in H. comosa ^ in the Antilles, and H. Grahami Wight in India. 

 E. olcordata^ is employed as an expectorant in Columbia, and 

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

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

 Myginda ; the test known are the R. TJragoga ^° and Crossopetalum,^^ 

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

 is sometimes prescribed in cases of inflammation and ophthalmia. 

 Catha edulis *^ is a vegetable which, with Cocoa and Mate, has been 



' DC. Prodr. ii. n. 6.— Hakv. and Sond. Fl. ^ Walp. Eep. i. 402,— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 



Cap. i. 468. — Ilex crocea ,Thunb. — Shamnus Ca- 374. — Calypso pyriformis Don, 6ard. Diet. i. 629. 

 pmsis Spreng. — Crocoxylum excekitm Bokl. et ' Sw. Fl. Ind. Oec. i. 77. — DO. Prodr. i. 568, 



Zeth. {Safranhout). n. 12 {Amandier des Bois). 



"^ Wight et Aen. Prodr. i. 167. — Lind-l. ' Lamk. III. i. 100, t. 28, fig. 1. — B. soandens, 



Fl. Med. 107. — Nereeja dichotoma Eoxb. Jacq. Amer. 9, t. 9. 



3 Mystroxylon apharophyllitm Eckl. et Zeth. ' Afzel. ex Spkeng. N. Enid. iii. 234. — Otiv. 



— HARvCand Sond. Fl. Cap. i.ilO.—M, Kuhu Fl. T op. Afr. i. 370. 

 EcEL. et Zeyh. ^'' Myginda Vragoga jAca. Amer. t. 16. — 



■■ Mart. exEosENTH. p. eit.. 796. In Brazil Lamk. III. t. 76. — DO. Prodr. ii. 12, n. 3. — 



these fruits have the vernacular name of Sapata, C> ossopetalum P. Br. /a««. t. 17, fig. 1. 



* DC. Prodr. i. 670. — GdilIjEM et Perr. Fl. " L. Spec. 169 (part.). — Maginda Bhaeom 



Sen. Tent. i. 113, t. 27.— -S. Afflnis Hook. p. Sw. Fl, Ind. Om. 348.— DO. Prodr. n. 8. 

 Niger, 281 {Kebett des NSgres). '= See p. 10; note 2. 



