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OFFICINAL AND MEDICINAL PLANTS, &c. 
OFFICINAL AND MEDICINAL 
PLANTS, TROPICAL FRUITS, &c. 
Our collection of living economic plants contains specimens of nearly all the 
spices and condiments in domestic use, many of the most highly esteemed tropical 
esculent fruits, many of those fi-om which furniture and other woods aro 
obtained, the principal gums and medicinal products, the poison trees from 
Java, Brazil, and Madagascar, at one time only heard of in tales of fiction, and 
plants which supply our daily beverages and food, as well as many of historical interest. 
The individual prices of the following depend upon the size of the plants and 
rarity of the species, particulars of which can be furnished on application. 
Collections made at 6, 7 and 10 guineas. 
African Mangoateen Qaroinia Livingat6nei 
African Rubber Landolphia Watsoni 
African Wine Palm Raphia vinifera .... 
Allspice Pimenta officin&lia 
Africa 10/6 
Zanzibar 7/6 
JF. Coast of A frica 21/- 
W. Indies 5/- 
Angostura Bitters Tripliasia Aurantiola Tropical Asia ... . 7/6 
Amatto Dye Plant .............. ...... Bixa Orellana Tropical A inerica 
Arrowroot Mariinta arundin(\cca S. America .... 7/6 
Australian Banyan Ficus macrophylla 
Avocado Pear Persea gratissima 
Balsam of Peru Myr6xylon Pereirce 
Banyan Tree Ficus bengaleusis (indica) 
Baobab Adansonia digitala 
Bark of Commerce CinchOna offioinilis 
Bengal Quince .®glo Marmelos 
Australia 6/- 
Tropical America 10/6 
. Peru 7/6 
. P. Indies 3/6 
Tropical Africa . . 10/6 
. Tropical America 7/6 
- u E. Indies 6/- 
Batle Pepper Piper Betle K. Indies 6 / 
Blwk Pepper Piper nigrum E. Indies 
Blimbing Averrhoa Bilimbi E. Indies 
Botany Bay Tea Smilax glyciphylla Australia 
3j6 
7/6 
61 - 
7/6 
21 /- 
Brazil Cherry Eugenia brasiliensis 
Brazil Nut Bertholl6tia excelsa . . . 
Butter Tree Pentadesma butyracea 
Cabbage Palm Eut6i’pe edOlis 
Calaba^ Tree Crescentia Cujete 
Camphor Cinnamdmum Cimphora - 
Caoutchouc Castilloa elastica Honduras 6/- 
Cape Chestnut Calodendron oapense Cape Colony .... 51- 
Cardamoms (Round) AmOmum CardamOmum 
Camauba Palm Copemioia cerifera 
Cashew Nut Anacardium occidentals . . 
Cassia Bark CinnamOmum Cassia .... 
Cherimoyer Anona Cherimolia 
Chinese Plantain Tree M6sa Cavendishii 
Cinnamon CinnamOmum zeylauicum 
Coca ErythrOxylon C6ca 
Cocoa Thcobroma Cacao 
Coffee, Arabian Coffea ariibica 
Coffee, Liberian Coffea liberica 
Contrwerva Root Dorstenia Contraydrva . . 
Cuba Bast Hibiscus (Paritium) el&tus 
Cubeb Pepper ■ Piper Cubeba 
Gundurango Marsdcnia(Glon6iobus)Cundur4ngo S. Ameriea 
Custard Apple, East Indian, see Sweet Sop. 
Custard Apple, West Indian, see Netted-feaved Custard Apple. 
Date Phoenix dactylifera Levant . . . 
Edible Eugenia Eugenia edOlis Brazil ... 
Edible Vangueria, or Voa Vanga Vangueria edOlis Madagascar 
Piddle Wood Cithar6xylon quadrangulfu-e . . . . Jamaica ... 
Flame Tree Sterculia(Brachychiton)aoerifolia N. S. Wales 
FuBtick Wood . . Chlorophora (Maoltira) tinct6ria 
Gambler Tannin Tree Unoaria Gambler 
Gamboge Garoinia Xanthochymus 
Gigantic Granadilla Passiflora maorooarpa 
Ginger Zingiber ofSoinkle 
Brazil . 
Brazil . . , 
Tropical Africa . . lO/O 
Brazil 5/- 
S. America 10/6 
Japan .... 3/6 & 6/- 
E. Indies 2/8 
Brazil 31/6 
W. Indies 10/6 
E. Indies 10/6 
Peru 6/- 
China 10/6 
Ceylon 7/6 
Peru 16/- 
Tropical America 21/- 
Yemen 3, '6 
Liberia 3/6 
iS. America .... 6/- 
W. Indies 7/6 
Java 
6 /. 
.10/6 
51- 
16/- 
16/- 
51- 
51- 
W. Indies 16/- 
E. Indies 21/- 
E. Indies 21/- 
Rio Negro 3/6 
E. Indict ...... 2/6 
