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a Ionic in Mexico and used in the treatment of ulcers and abscesses. 

 Mginetia caranifera Cav. which, belongs also to the genus Bouvardia, 

 contains a resin used for smoking meat. In Madagascar, Mauritius 

 and Bourbon, the bark of Danais fragrans,^ occasionally substituted 

 for quinquina and which is also tinctorial, is used in the treatment of 

 cutaneous affections and bears the name oiBois a dartres. In the 

 Antilles, the Catesbceas are often called Spinous Quinquinas ; the bark 

 is tonic, digestive, particularly that of C. spinosa L.^ The following 

 are hkewise reputed astringents, stomachics, tonics : in tropical Asia, 

 Cupia corymhosa DC. and Stylocoryne Eheedii KosT. which with us 

 belong to a section of the genus Ixora ; several Genipas, as Bandia 

 longiflora,^ employed in the treatment of ague; B. dumetorum ;* Gar- 

 denia florida,^ of China and India, renowned for the beauty and perfume 

 of its flowers ; Gardenia Mussaendce,^ of equinoxial America, which is 

 also tinctorial ; G. radicans/ of Japan ; G. gummifera,^ of Ceylon, 

 from which exudes a resin similar to elemi ; G. arborea,^ of India, 

 which yields the resin called Decamali; G. Pavetta,^" of the same 

 country, medicinally astringent; G. Bothmannia,^^ of the Cape of 

 Good Hope; G. malleifera,^^ of western tropical Africa, rich in tannin 

 and used by the natives for darkening the skin; Genipa capensis,^^ of 



1 CoMMEES. ex Lamk. III. t. 166, fig. 2.— DC. 

 Prodr. It. 361, n. 1. — Gtjsrtn. jr. Fruci. iii. 83, t. 

 195. — Paderia fragrana Lamk. Diet. ii. 260. — 

 ? Cinchona afro-inda Willem. Herb. Maur. 16 (ex 

 DC). 



s L. Spec. 159.— Lamk. III. t. 67, fig. 1.— Curt. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 131.— DO. Prodr. iv. 401, n. 2.— C. 

 longiflora Sw. Prodr. 30 (f China spitiosa off.). 



3 Lamk. Diet. iii. 26 ; III. t. 166, fig. Z.—E. 

 aeuleatif L. Spec. 21i. — B. mitis L. — Posogueria 

 hngiflora Boxb. PI. Ind. ii. 569. — P. muliiflora 

 Bl. Bijdr. 980. 



'■ Lamk. III. ill, 1. 156, fig. 4.— DC. Prodr. iv. 

 385, n. 6.— HiEBN, PI. Tr.Afr. iii. 94 ; Jn.Iinn. 

 Socsm. 260. — B. spinosa Bl. Bijdr. 9S1.— Gar- 

 denia dumetorum Ketz. 06s, ii. 14. — Eoxb.P/. Cor. 

 t. 136. — G. spinosa L. p. Suppl. 164. — Thumb. 

 piss. Gard. t. 2, fig, 4. — G. dvmosa Salisb. — 

 Posoqueria dmnetorum Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 664. — 

 periseus malabaricus G-jbrtn. Fruct. i. t. 28. 



L. Spec. S05.— DC. Prodr. iv. 379, n. l.—G. 

 Jasmimides Soland. — Ell. 



" Thbnb. Diss. n. 5. — G. maritima Vahl. — 

 Mtissaenda formosd jAca. Amer. t. 48. — Bandia 



Mussaendce DO. Prodr. iv. 388, n. 29. 



' Thunb. Diss. n. 1, t. 1.— Andr. Bot. Bepos. 

 t. 491.— Ker, Bot. Beg. t. 73. 



' L. p. Suppl. i. 64. 



9 BoxB. Fl. Ind. ii. 654. 



i" Hatn. ex EosENTH. op. eit. 349. 



1' L. p. Suppl. 165.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. 

 Cap. iii. 6, n. 7. — Bothmannia capensis Thunb. 

 Act. Holm. (1776) 65, fig. 2. 



12 Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4307.— G. Whitjieldi 

 LiNDL. Bot.Beg. (1845) sub t. 47. — B. mallei/era 

 Sth. Niger Fl. 384. — Bandia malleifera B. H. ex 

 HiEiw. Fl. Tr. Afr. iii. 98, n. 11 {Blippo of the 

 natives). 



" Thunbergia capensis Mont. Act. Holm. 

 (1773) t. \\.^— Gardenia Thunbergia L. p. ex 

 Thunb. Diss. 11, 17, n. 3.— Hiern, Fl. Tr. Afr. 

 iii. 100, n. \.—Bot. Mag. 1. 1004.— G!. vertioillata 

 Lamk. Diet. ii. 607. — G. speciosa Salisb. — (?. 

 crassicau&s Salisb. — ? ff. ternifolia Schum. — 

 G. medieinalis Vahl. — G. lutea Fresbn. — G. 

 Tinnece Kotsch. etHEUGL. Bot. Zeit. (1865) 173, 

 t. 8. — Bergkias Sonn. — Oaquepiria Bergkia, 

 Gmel. Syst. 661. 



