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NATUBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



its bark, leaves, flowers and fruit, mixed with oil of Sesame, are 

 employed in the treatment of aphtha and angina. 0. chinensis ^ is 

 emollient ; its leaves are used in cataplasms. The fruit of 0. aspera^ 

 is edible ; in Java an infusion from its leaves is considered salutary 

 in the treatment of angina. 0. virusana^ is reputed antisyphilitic in 

 Mauritius. The fruit of Blakea is edible and in most cases dyes red; 

 B. parasitica^ and guianensis (fig. 89) are particularly mentioned. 

 The fruit of Belinda, for example B. brasiliensis,^ arborescens,^ Host- 

 manni '' and grossularioides^ (fig. 40), has the same uses. An infusion 

 of Tibouchina aspera * is taken, in Guyana, against angina and bron- 

 chitis. The bark of T. MaximiUana,^" in Brazil, yields a black dye. 

 T. holosericea " and Langsdorffiana,^^ from the same country, are said 

 to dye black or violet, and are prescribed in infusion against angina. 

 Brachyotum canescens ^^ is considered, in the Andes, salutary in 

 diseases of the urinary organs, and even in stone. In Jamaica, the 

 aromatic flowers of Meriana leucantha Sw., purpurea Sw., and rosea 

 Tuss. are employed as pectorals. All the parts, but especially the 

 buds, balsamic and anticatarrhal, of Mierolicia grandiflora,^* from 

 Guyana and Brazil, are prescribed in pulmonary affections. Hen- 

 riettea, particularly H. flavescens,^^ H. Kappleriana Steud. and H. 



' L. Spec. 490 (not Bot. Mitff. t. 4026).— 0. 

 angustifolia Don. — 0. decora Wall — 0. glabrata 

 Wall. — 0. linearis Bl. — 0. myrtifolia Bl. — 

 Tristemma angustifoliuw, Bl. Bijdr. 1079. 



sBl. i?&™ (1831), ii. 474.— Wight, JcoH. 377. 

 — M. aspera L. Fl. Zeyl. 76. — Asterostoma 

 asperum Bl. 



* M. virusanum Don, Mnn. Went. Soc. iv. 290. 

 — Tristemma mrusamm C'ommees. /. Gen. 329. 

 — DC. Prodr. iii. 144. — T. mauritiana PoiR. 

 Diet. viii. 956. 



* DoK, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 327. — Topobea 

 parasitica Avbl. Guian. i. 467, t. 189. 



° Natjd. Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. 3, xvi. 104. 



' M. arboreseem Auel. Guian: 420, t. 163. — 

 Loreya arboreseens DC. Prodr. iii. 179. — Naud. 

 toe. cit. xviii. 109. 



' Natjd. loo. cit. xvi. 103. 



» Tri. Melast. 141.— 5. Ayiktii Nadd.— 5. 

 inultijiom Karst. — M. grossularioides L. Spec. 

 538. — Blakea quinquenervia Auel. -Guian. 595, t. 

 210. — Apatilia blakeoides DeBtx. Sam. Prodr. 

 42. — lichyranthera Icevigata Steud. {Gororiill", 

 of Panama.) 



» AuDL. Guian. 446, t. 177.— DC. Prodr. iii. 



\ii.—M. aromatica Vahl. Eel. i. 41. — T. Tibou- 

 china Desrx. Lamlc. Biit. iv. 49. — Don, Mem. 

 Wern. Soc. iv. 288. — Shixia aspera W. Spec. ii. 

 304. — Lasiandra Tibouchina Natjd. Ann. Sc.Nat, 

 ser. 3, xiii. 153.^— Pleri ma TibmicMmm Tri. 

 Melast. 45. 



'" Lasiandra Maximiliana DC. Prodr. iii. 128. 

 — Pleroma Maximilianum Tri. Mtlast. 43. 



" M. holosericea Sw. Obs. 176. — M. argenfea 

 Desrx. — M. clavata Pers. — Rhexia holosericea 

 B. Shex. t, 12. — Lasiandra proteceformis DC. — 

 X. argentea DC. — Pleroma holosenceum Don.— 

 P. argenteum A. Gray. 



■^ Rhexia L%ngsdorffiana B. Rhex. t. 51. — Os- 

 bickia Langsdorfflana Sprenq. Syat. ii. 312.— 

 Lasiandra Langsdorffiana DC. — X. Gardnerii 

 Natjd. — Pleroma Langsdorffianum Tri. 



" Trl Melast. 48. — Rhexia canescens B. — 

 Choetogastra canescens DC. 



'^ Lavoisiera grandiflora Naiid. Ann. Sc. Nat, 

 ser. 3, ii. 148 ; xii. 217. 



" M. flavescens Atjbl. Guian. 423, t. 164.— 

 OssiBa flavescens DC. Prodr. iii. 169. — Loreya 

 flavescens 'Saxi-d. loc. cit. xviii. 110.— Senriettella 

 flaveiceiis Tri. 



