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Carolina children eat them without inconvenience. The oil extracted 

 from the pulp is used for lighting and painting. The stones are em- 

 ployed in making chaplet beads, the leaves in dyeing, and the -wood, 

 in cabinet-work. It is further said that in a strong dose this plant 

 is purgative, that its bark cures chronic quinsy, hysterics, and 

 diarrhoea. The same properties have been attributed to M. semper- 

 virens^ from the Antilles. M. Azadirachta^ is also employed in 

 India as vermifuge. Its bitter, tonic, astringent bark is used for the 

 treatment of hysteria and intermittent fever. The oil of the fruit 

 is also used for lighting, and the plant is equally tinctorial. These 

 different bead-trees, acting probably only as astringent and anti- 

 diarrhceic, have been pointed out as specific against cholera. The 

 fruit may be used to prepare a fermented liquor, considered a sto- 

 machic in India. The TricMlias are generally evacuant medicines. 

 Elkaja of the Arabs has received, on account of its emetic properties, 

 the name of T. emetica? Another South American species has been 

 namied T. cathartica.^ According to jAcauiN the negresses use the 

 purgative root of T. trifoUolata as abortive.® T. havensis ^ is con- 

 sidered in South America as eflBcacious for dropsy, jaundice, affec- 

 tions of the liver and spleen, syphilis, and even sterility. There are, 

 besides, species of the same genus that are astringent : thus, T. mos- 

 chata^' of Jamaica, produces the Juribali bark, reported as bitter and 

 astringent, a remedy for intestinal obstructions, cephalic affections, 

 remittent fevers, typhoid affections, small-pox, and measles. We 

 again meet with the same variety of properties in the used species 



1 Sw. Fl. Ind. Oec. ii. 737. — M. Azederach $ Marcgii.). 



L. Spec. 530 {Liloi dea Antilles). * L. Spce. 651.— UcQ. Amer. 129, t. 82.— DC. 



2 L. Spec. 550.— Cav. loc. eit. t. 20%.—Axadi- Prodr. i. 623, n. 14.— Lindl. i'l. Med. 152 {Cer- 

 rachta indiea A. Juss. Mtliac. 69, t. 2, n. 5. soa macho of the Spaniards, Kerseboom of the 



2 Vahi, Symb. i. 31.— DO. Prodr. i. 620, ja. 5. Danes). 



— Lindl. jF;.J/ed.l51.— GruiLL.et Perk. -F^.&M. * JAca. Amer. 129, t. 176, fig. 38.— H. B. K. 



Tent. i. 126.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 335.—^/- Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 216.— DO. Prodr. n. 6.— 



caja FoitsK. Fl. .Mg.-Arah. 127. — Sochetia chi- Endl. EncMrid. 652. — Eosenth. op. cit. 765. — 



loetisia Del. Roeh. Deux. Yoy. Bot. n. 47. — Ma- T. glabra Ii. Syst. xiii. 294 (Marinheiro da folha 



fureira oleifera Bertol. Misc. Bot. ix. 6, t. 2. — larya Marcge. ex Mer. et Del. loc. cit. 767). 



Qeniostepharms tomentosus Fenzl. Flora (1844), ' Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 735.— Rosekth. op. cit. 



312. This plant is used by the Arabs to shelter 766.— T. odorata Andr. Bot. Eepos. t. 637 (ex 



the coffee plantations. They prepare an anti- DC. prodr. n. 8). — T. spondioides Jacq. (fig. 467- 



psoric ointment with the oil of sesamum mixed 471), and T. Catigoa A. S. H., the wood of 



with its seeds and finiits (-D!o«^-«^A«», i?"^*). which is employed in cabinet-work, are also 



* Mart. Eosenth. op. cit. 765. — Moschoxylon species used for dyeing (Eosenth. op. cit. 766). 

 catharticum Mart. {Marinheiro da folha minda 



