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sembles that of the preceding, but which are distinguished by the 

 uniform dull yellow tint (or blackish brown when they have lost 

 their outer coat), in size a little less or at most nearly equal to 

 our Ricinus, and by the projection, often very slight, of three 

 longitudinal lines which they bear on the sides, and on the middle 

 of the interior face. The oil called Crofow,, pressed from these seeds, 

 is inwardly a powerful purgative in a small dose of one or two drops, 

 and outwardly, a rubefacient and eruptive of terrible causticity. 

 Among other seeds of EuphorUacece, rich in purgatives, we , must 

 yet mention those of Anthostema Avhryanum^ a shrub from the 

 Gaboon, reported the most powerful of all ; Jatropha muUifida,^ 

 large as filberts, often employed in warm countries ; of the wild 

 Jatropha or Jatropha gossypifolia^ very small, but equally active 

 as evacuants, and used La tropical America and Africa ; of 

 Aleurites moluccand,'^ having the shape and size of a small chestnut 

 with a stony envelope, and which, purging much less energetically, 

 may, under certaia conditions, be employed as an aliment ; those of 

 the Andaagu of Brazil, ^ often two in number in a thick and volu- 

 minous stone, slightly tetragonal, broader than long and also rich in 

 purgative oU, analogous in its properties to that of Ricinus ; those 

 again of Hura crepitans ^ (fig. 216-218), ten or twenty in number, 



LiNDL. Fl. Med. 181. — Kl. in Sayn. Arzn. mal de ventre, Medieinier a Feuillea de Cotonnier, 



xiv. t. 3. — Pebeiba, Ekm. Mat. Med. ed. 4, ii. de Staphisaigre, de Groseillier.) 



p. i. 403. — EosENTH. Syn. PI. Diaph. 835. — * Alewites tnolimeaMa'W . Spec. iv. 590. — M. 



Ebv. ia M. Mid. du XIX' siiele, i. 421.— L. Aug. Prodr. 123.— A. triloba Poest. CAar. 



March, in Adansonia, i. 232, t. 9, 10.— Bekg. Gen. 112, n. 66. — A. commutata, Geibel. Crot. 



et SoHM. Off. Gew. (jOroton). — Moa. Bot. Mid. Mon. 82. — A. ambinux Peks. Synopa. 587. — A. 



399, fig. 108. — C. Pavana Wall. Cat. n. 7722 Juss. Ewphorh. t. 12. — Camirium eordifolium 



A. C. Jamalgota Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soo. Gjeutn. Fruct. ii. 196. — G. oleomm Eeinw. — 



xiv. 258. — Tifflitem officinale Kl. in N'ov. Aet. Juglans Camiriwn Loue. Fl. Coohinch. (ed. 



Nat. Our. xix. Suppl. i. 418. {Jiois des Mo- 1790), 673. 



tuques, purgatif, de Pavane, de Tigli). * Johanmesia prineeps Vellos. Alograf. 199. 



• H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 366, not. Accord- — M. Aeo. Prodr. 716. — Anda Q-omesii A. S. 



ing to Atjee'X-Lecomte, a single drop of the oil H. PI. Us. Bras. t. 54, 66. — H. Bn. in Adam,- 



extracted from the seeds purges violently. sonia, iv. 284 ; in Diet. Encycl. Se. Mid. iv. 304. 



2 Jatropha nmltifida L. Spec. 1006. — Dese. A. brasiliensis Eaddi, Mem. Quar; Piant. Bras. 

 in Lamh. Diet. iv. 10. — Sw. Obs. 368. — Guib. 25. — Andiscus pentaphyllus Vellos. — Aleurites 

 loe. eit. 356, fig. 456. — Peeeiea, op. cit. 426. — pentaphylla Wall. — Guibouet distinguishes 

 M. Abo. Prodr. 1089, n. 35. — Adenorhopium (op. eit. 361, fig. 460) another Anda of Brazil, 

 multiJldMn Pohl, PI. Bras. i. 16. (Arbre de with a round seed, which is perhaps a Jatropha. 

 eorail, Midieinier d'Fspagne, Noisetier purgatif, ^ Hura crepitans L. Spee. 1431. — Tubp. in 

 grand Ben purgatif.) Picf. Se. Nat. Atl. t. 279. — Spaoh, Suit, a 



3 J.gossypifoUa L. Spec. 1006. — Sw. Obs. £«/»«, t. 76.— H. Bn. .BapAori. t. 6.— M. Abg. 

 336.— M. Abq. Prodr. 1086.— Mbb. et Dei. Prodr. 1229.— Guib. loe. cit. 360, fig. 459. 

 Diet. Mat. Med. iii. 676. — ^Eosenth. op. eit. Same properties in S. polyandra (H. Bn. 

 828.— Gdib. loe. cit. 364, fig, 463. (Serbe au Euphorb. 544), a Mexican species. 



