ULMAGEM. 175 



has edible seeds ; its root is astringent, as is also ttat of A. integri- 

 folia, and is employed against diarrhoea and scabby affections. The 

 juice of the fruit has been extolled for maladies of the eyes, and 

 the wood and bark have served to prepare astringent gargles. The 

 bark of A. Lakoocha^ in India supplies an astringent medicine, as 

 also that of J. pvhescens^ an Indian species the bark of which is 

 used as an antidiarrhoetic and administered in cases of pain, stiffness 

 of limbs, contusions and tumours. In Java and Malabar A. Blwmei^ 

 has the same reputation. From its buds and leaves is prepared an 

 ointment which is applied to sores and hemorrhoidal tumours. Its fruit, 

 prescribed against diarrhoea, contains an oil employed for culiuary 

 purposes. It is edible, as is also that of another Javan species, 

 A. Kertdu} In Cochin China is eaten that of A. Bolyphema,^ and in 

 the East Indies those of ^. imperialis Eoxb., parvifolia Wight, elastica 

 Eeinw., hngifolia H. Cels, Icevis Hassk. and rigida Bl.^ The fol- 

 lowing are also reported as Artocarpece with edible fruit : in central 

 America Trophis Americana L. j in Guyana, Bagassa guianensis Aubl. ; 

 in Brazil, Pourouma acuminata^, hicolor^ and cecropieefolia,^ and 

 many Cecropice. These are almost always astringent plants.^" C. 

 peltata'^^ is much employed in the Antilles and central America for 

 various purposes. Its caustic latex is used to destroy warts, corns 

 and scabs. Its leaves and inner bark are very astringent, antidiar- 

 rhoetic and antigonorrhoetic. Of its hollow stems and branches the 



' KoxB. Fl. Ind> iii. 624. — Wight, Icon. t. dulate, of an agreeatle taste ; and these species 



681 {Dhea-phvl-Burhul Bengal). are said to deserve cultivation as fruit trees. 



' W. Spec. iv. 189.— Tkec. loc. eit. 122.— A. (Makt. Seia. iii. 1130). 

 hirmta Eoxb. — Ansjeli Eheed. Hort. Malab. iii. ' Makt. Syst. Mat. Med. Bras. 34. — Miq. he. 



26, t. 32. eit. 130, t. 39. 



' Trec. loc.cit.lll.—A. puieseensBu Bijdr. ' Mabt. Reis. iii. 1130; Mat. Med. 34.— Mia. 



481 (nee W.).— Zoll. Verz. 76 {^Bmdaah). he. eit. 123, t. 36.— P. muUifda Trec. 



* Zoll. ex Eosenth. op. eit. 1108. The same '" Notahly C. concolor W. Eumboldtiana Kl. 



author also cites as very dangerous the juice of (C. peltata W. not L.). See Eosenth. op. eit. 



A. venenosa ZoLJj. 197. 



' Pers. Syn. ii. 531. — Tutc. loc. ctt. 116. — '' L. Fug. PL Jam. Amcm. Acad. v. 410. — 



Folyphema Champeden Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. Jacq. Ois. ii. t. 46, fig. 4; Amer.t. 262. — Mabt. 



1790), 647 {Tjampeda, Gay Mitnai of the Anna- Seis. iii. 1130 ; Fl. Bras. TTrtic. 210.— Mia. loc. 



mites). eit. 149. — Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 276. — Endl. 



' The fruit of A. brasiliensis Gomez, which Enchirid. 169. — Meb. et Del. Diet. Mat. Med. 



is prohahly only a species introduced from India, ii. 166. —Eosenth. op. eit. 197. — Taruma Ovied. 



is cited as edible. ^rnnmr.. (ed. 1547), fol. 82, *. — Sloan. Siat. i. 



1 Mart. Syst. Mat. Med. Bras. 34.— Mia. in 137, t. 88, fig. 2, t. 89 (Bois-trompette, Bois- 



Mart. Fl. Bras, TJrtic. 130, t. 40 {Amtauba do canon, Figuier de Surinam, Shake-wood of the 



Vinho, Manaa.). Its fruit and that of the fol- English. 

 lowing species are muoilaginoua, sweetish aci- 



