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Acacias, are of inferior quality. Many other Acacias have a very 
astringent bark, used either in medicine or for dyeing and tanning. 
This is the case with nearly all the gum species, especially 4. 
arabica, Adansonia, Ehrenbergit, peregrina, Seyal, Verek, &e. What 
is called Mimosa-bark Extract in England is obtained from the 
Australian species with gummy juice, and chiefly from A. decurrens, 
homalophylla, melanoxylon, mollissima, pycnantha, &2 The barks of 
many other species of Acacia proper are rich in tannin : but astringency 
seems most developed in the old species of Mimosa and Acacia, 
vulgarly known in Brazil as “ Bark of youth and of virginity’* 
especially Angico,’ Barbatimao,’ Avaremotemo,’ and Jurema.* Many 
Calliandras, such as the Tendre-d-caillou’ and C. grandiflora” of Mexico, 
have similar properties ; the latter species is especially recommended 
in fluxes and chest diseases. No doubt it is for its astringent proper- 
ties that Mimosa sensitiva” is so highly valued in America in the treat- 
ment of fistula and piles ; just like Adenanthera pavonina (Red Sandal- 
wood; Fr., Condori d’Inde),” in rheumatism and inflammations of 
the mucous membranes, and Prthecolobium Unguiscati,* Inga vera," 
and I. Burgonia,” in fluxes and catarrhal phlegmasie ; and in tropical 
Asia the decoctions of several species of Mimosa, Leucena and 
Acacia," are used as lotions to bruised or inflamed parts. So, too, 
several Albizzias are similarly employed, especially 4. micrantha,” 
which affords a sort of Catechu ; in Java and the Indian Archipelago 
1 Myall tree of the Australians. 
2 Silver-Wattle of the Australians. 
3 See Linpu., Fl. Med., 270.—H. By., in 
Adansonia, iv. 108, 109, 114, 116, 119. 
4 Pis., Brasil., 77. 
5 Piptadenia colubrina BENTH., in Hook. 
Journ., iv. 384.— Acacia angico Mart.— 
SarpanuHa, Config... .. das Pr. Madeir., &e. 
(1865), 126, Icon. 
8 Stryphnodendron Barbatimao Mart. — 
GurB., Drog. Simpl., éd. 4, iii. 306.—H. By., 
in Dict. Eneycl. Sc. Méd., viii. 340. — Inga 
Barbatimao Envu.— Acacia adstringens Marr. 
It is prescribed in Brazil in cases of wounds, 
burns, and even hernias. 
7? Pithecolobium Avaremotevo Marr.—Inga 
Avaremotevo Exp. — Mimosa cochliocarpos 
Gom.—Acacia virginalis Pon. — Abaremo- 
temo Pts., loc, cit—Brincos de Sahoim of the 
Brazilians (see ROSENTH., op. cit. 1063). 
8 Stryphnodendron Jurema Linpu., Veg. 
Kingd., 558.—Acacia Jurema Mazr.—Guvts., 
op. cit., 306.—ROosENTH., op. cit., 1059. The 
Nupa or Nuipa of the Americans (Acacia 
‘ Niopo H. B. K.), has similar properties; but it 
is also a stimulant, and is powdered as a snuff 
just like Mimosa acacioides. 
° C. tetragona BEntu.— Acacia tetragona 
W.—A. quadrangularis Lamx. 
” Bentu.— Acacia grandiflora W.— Inga 
anomala DC., part. (ROSENTH., op. cit., 1062.) 
YL. Spec, 1501—D0., Prodr, n. 3.— 
RoOsENTH., op. cit., 1053. 
12D. (see above, pp. 21, 22, fig, 15-19).— 
ROSENTH., op. cit., 1051. 
13 Bentu.—Inga Unguis-cati W., Spec., iv, 
1006.—Z. guadalupensis Dusvx. 
4 W., op. cit., iv. 1014.—DC., Prodr., 
ii, 483, n. 18. 
1% DC., op. cit., n. 26.—Mimosa Bourgoni 
AUBL., Guian., ii. t. 358.—M. fagifolia L., 
Spec., 1498. 
16 See RosENTH., op. cif., 1053-1062. 
WY Acacia odoratissina W., op. cit. 1063. 
—Albizzia micrantha Botv., in Encyc. du 
xix’, Sidcle, ii. 34.—Cherymaram of Malabar.— 
Tarriesia Hassx., Cart. Hort. Bog .,291. 
