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Castor oil enters into the composition of elastic collodion 

 (simple collodion, 30 grams, castor oil, 2 grams). The leaves 

 pounded and boiled are applied as a poultice to foul ulcers. 



Botanical Description. — There are two forms of this 

 variety in the Philippines, possessing the same properties and 

 known by the same common name : R. viridis, Miill. (i?. com- 

 munis, Blanco) and R. subpurpurascens, Miill.; the former is the 

 more common and has a glabrous, fistular stem. Leaves pel- 

 tate, palmately cleft in 7 or 9 lobules, lanceolate, serrate. Pet- 

 ioles long. Flowers greenish, monoecious, the staminate ones 

 in large panicled clusters below the pistillate. Filaments 

 numerous, subdivided into several anther-bearing branches. 

 Pistillate flowers, 3 sepals, 3 styles. Seed vessel, 3 prickly 

 capsules, containing solitary seeds. 



The E. subpurpurascens is distinguished from the former by 

 bearing 2 glandules at the base of the leaves, the mulberry color 

 of which latter suggests its common name, Tagantagan na 

 morado, Tag., Vis. 



Habitat. — Very common in Luzon, Mindanao and other 

 islands. 



URTICACEJE. 



Nettle Family. 

 Artocarpus integrifolia, AVilld. 



NoM. VuLG. — Nagka, Tag.; Jack Fruit Tree, Eng. 



Uses. — The huge fruit of this tree is well known to the 

 Filipinos and well liked by them as an article of food, eaten 

 fresh or in sweet preserves. The arils and pulpy envelopes of 

 the seeds are the parts eaten, also the seeds themselves, boiled 

 or roasted. According to Padre Mercado the roasted seeds 

 have an aphrodisiac action. 



The heated and powdered leaves are applied to wounds and 

 given internally for congestions. The resin of the trunk is a 

 useful .application to ulcers and in India they give it inter- 



