490 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Now, it is admitted ^ to be a slightly acid, resinous, uncrystallizable 

 principle, the touloucounin. This bark, also called Andiroha, is 

 rich in. tannin. Its oil has been extolled latterly for rheumatism, 

 skin disease, and maladies of the scalp. C. ? procera ^ of India, a 

 tree with magnificent wood, is also bitter and tonic. The species of 

 this genus constituting the section Xylocarpum are also very bitter, 

 especially C. ohovata^ and moluccensis.^ The Cedrelce are in general 

 bitter and aromatic. The bark of Cedrela Toona ^ (fig. 478-483) is 

 resinous, astringent ; it has been substituted, it is said, with success, 

 for quinine in the treatment of intermittent fevers. It acts with par- 

 ticular efficacy when employed concurrently with the Kutulegee of the 

 Bengalese, which is a Leguminosa, Ccesalpinia Bonducella. In Java, 

 it has been administered with the greatest success in cases of diarrhoea, 

 dysentery (after the inflammatory period), severe epidemic fevers, 

 etc. C. febrifuga ® has precisely identical properties. In Columbia, 

 C. montana^ is equally considered to have a febrifugal bark. C. 

 angustifolia ^ of Peru has an odour of leeks, also met with, it is said, 

 in the flesh of animals eating its fruits. All these species have a 

 beautiful wood used in building or even in making certain furniture. 

 But the most celebrated of the species of Cedrela, in this respect, is 

 the plank or female mahogany, that is to say, C. odorata^ of central 

 and southern America, whose reddish resinous odorous wood, almost 

 incorruptible, serves for various uses in the Antilles, and especially 

 in making boxes for sugar and cigars. Its bark is very astringent. 

 From its wood are extracted an aromatic resin and a febrifuge extract. 

 Its fruit is vermifuge. The true furniture mahogany is Swietenia 



' E. Caventou, Su C. Touloueouna. Paris, oi ^e -pceaeSa-ag [Quinquina des Indes Orientates). 



(1859). ^ MoK. ex Ttjkcz. Bull. Mosc. (1858), 415.— 



" DC. Prodr. i. 626, n. 2. — Triehilia procera Tr. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 5, xv. 378. — Eosenth. 



FoHSYTH. op. cit. 770 {Cedro). 



^ Bl. Bijdr. 179. — Xyloearpus obovatus A. ^ JJ09. ex DC. Prodr. i, 62i, n. 2. — A. Juss. 



Juss. Meliac, 92. Meliac. t. 12, 11. 29.— Endl. Unehirid. 554. The 



^ Lamk. Diet. 1, 621. — DC. Prodr. n. S. — fresh C. o<foca<a has, it is said, the same alliaceous 



H. Bn. in Diet. Uncycl. Sc. Med. xii. 307. — odour. 



Xylocarpus Qranatum K(en. Nat. 20, p. 2 — W, 

 Spec. ii. 328 [Nirie). 



' RoxB. PL Coram, iii. t. 238 ; Fl. Ind. i. 635 

 — DC. Prodr. i. 624, n. 3.— Lindl. Fl. 

 156. — EosENTH. op. cit. 770. 



^ Bl. Bijdr. 119. — Fokst. Diss. Cedr. Febrif. 

 Lugd.-Bat. (1836— Mer. et Del. Diet. Mat 

 iled. ii. 167. Syn. far Linuiey {Fl. Med. 156) 



9 L. Spec. 289.— Lamk.. III. t. 137.— Sloanb, 

 Bist. ii. t. 220, fig. 2.— P. Br. Jam. 168, t. 10. 

 fig. 1.— DC. Prodr. n. 1.— Mer. et Del. 2)!cf, 

 Mat.Med.ii. \&&.—S.}iZ)Z..Enchirid. 654.— GuiB. 

 op. cit. iii. 589. — Eosenth. op. cit. 770 {Cldre- 

 acajou, G. des Parbades, Cedrel, Cailcedra d'Ami- 

 riqiie). 



