THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPPINES 



The root bark referred to is bitter and nauseous, if taken 

 m the superficial roots — the part usually employed ; the 

 'k of the deeper parts is astringent by virtue of the con- 

 Qed tannin. 



Jacobs analyzed the bark and isolated an amorphous resin of 

 lowish color and very bitter taste. It is soluble in alcohol, 

 er and chloroform, slightly soluble in sulphuret of carbon, 

 oluble in turpentine or benzin. He believes that it is the 

 ive principle of the root, and produces the anthelmintic ac- 

 1 already mentioned ; the proper dose is 0.20 centigrams to 

 hild of 4 years, followed by a purge of calomel. 

 Botanical Description. — A tree, 30-40° high, with leaves 

 jrnate, compound, odd-pinnate ; leaflets opposite, ovate, 

 nted, dentate. Flowers in large axillary compound panicles. 

 lyx, 5 sepals. Corolla, 5 petals, rose-colored within, lilac- 

 ored without. Stamens 10, united into a cylindrical tube, 

 )anded at both ends, the mouth 15-toothed. Anthers in- 

 ted near the apex of the tube, short, fleshy, bilocular. Ovary 

 ;, of 5 biovuled cells. Style of equal length with the tube, 

 gma button-shaped. Fruit a drupe, about the size of a small 

 /e, yellow when ripe, with a dark brown pit of 5 one-seeded 

 Is. 



Jabitat. — Native of China ; is cultivated in most gardens 

 the Philippines. 



SOXylum Blancoi, Yidal. {D. Mtlntdir, F. Villar ; Tnrmca 



virens, Blanco.) 

 S'oM. VuLCt. — /^t"', Agiw, Talidtan, Tag. ; Aiumaf/tdf/, 

 kiujdii., Maknuili, Vis. ; Malahagaw, Pam. ; Basiloag, Hoc. 

 JsES. — The bark of the trunk, dry and finely powdered, is 

 d in doses of 1|-2| grams as an emetic, and, according to 

 ire Blanco, its effect is very certain. 



,t is also a febrifuge, and Padre Mercado states that it 

 es " all forms of asthma, suffocative affections of the chest, 



