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AcosTA and Rumphius. See Rumph. Amb. V, 242= I do not khow 

 that either the seeds or the extract prepared from the expressed juice of 

 the plant, are used in medicine here ; but those who place any faith in 

 the accounts given by Baron Stoerck, and Mr, Odhelius* of the effica- 

 cy of the extra 61 of the Si^rawomzf?^, in the cure of mania, epilepsy, and 

 other convulsive disorders, may reasonably expert the same effects from 

 the extra6l of the Metel; the narcotic power in the two species being per- 

 fe61:ly alike. Linn^us, indeed, has given a place, in his Materia Medica^ 

 to the Metel, in preference to the Stramoniufn. 



Daucus Carotj. (W.) GajeH^^ H. Garjara S. 



Murray, I. 316. 



WOODVILLE, III. 443, 

 BoLicMOS P&URiENS. (W.) Kiwdch H. Capicach'hu S. 



Murray, II. 438, 



WOODVILLE, III. 468. 

 EcMiTSS Antedysenteeica (Roxb. Ms.) Curayiak^) H. Cutaja S. 



The seed. Inderjao H. Indrayava S. 



Murray, I. 838. 



WOODVILLE, IV. 42. 



EUPATORIUM AyAPANA. (W.) 



This plant was brought, about ten years ago, from Brazil, of which 

 country it is a native, to the Isle of France; and was, by the islanders, 

 considered for a time, as almost a panacea. It appears, however, that it 

 has entirely lost it's credit with them, and that they do not now allow 

 it to possess any medicinal virtue whatsoever. See Bory de St. Vincent 

 Voyage aux principales Isles des Mers d' Afrique. The instances are not 

 unfrequent, of medicines which had been at first too highly extolled, hav- 



* Vide Murray and Woodyxlle, loc. citat. 



(1) Gajur. (2) Koorayu, 



