oct. — dec. 1857.] Oils of Southern India. 



41 



be seen on reference to the Journal of the Madras Literary Society. 

 No. 1. New Series.) The greater injury almost invariably suffered by 

 trees grown from cuttings, has been frequently remarked. The 

 wood is said to be capable of being worked, when fresh cut. The 

 juice is used on the western coast as a remedy for various cutaneous 

 affections. 



No. 47. Viscid Cleome oil. (Cleome viscosa.)* 



This warm and pungent little seed when subjected to a very pow- 

 erful pressure, yields 13 per cent, of alight olive, green limpid oil. 



No. 48. Thortay oil. ( ?) 



Is obtainable in small quantities in Canara, it is a solid oil and 

 used as a native remedy for sores. 



No. 49. fcenugreck oil. (Trig onella fomum gr cecum.) 



The fresh seeds of this plant are said to yield a small percent- 

 age of oil. 



No. 50. Abelmoschus oil. (Abelmoschus Jiculneus.) 



In addition to its fibre, for which the plant is used, the seeds 

 yield a small quantity of oil. 



No. 51. Qutta percha seed oil. (Isonandra gutta.) 

 Yielded by expression. Oil but little known. 



No. 52. Croton oil. (Croton tiglium.) 



This well-known medicinal oil, the use of which as a drastic pur» # 

 gative appears to be on the decline, is seldom extracted in India, 

 the powdered seed, being usually administered by native practiti- 

 oners. It is also used in veterinary medicine. 



Nos. 53 and 54. Bryony and Colocynth oils. 



These plants grow wild in most parts of the country. The seeds 

 are collected by shepherd boys, and boiled to obtain the oil, which 

 is only used for lighting purposes. 



* Now Polanisia icosandra, W, and A. —Ed. 



