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TIlALAMlFLOItJE. 
ascarides and the round worm. The dried berries are said to 
have a similar effect. 
The pulp of the ripe fruit, mixed with lard, forms an ointment 
for Tenia. The ripe fruit also yields a valuable bitter fixed oil, 
which is administered internally for worms, and employed ex- 
* ternally to foul ulcers, and as a liniment in rheumatic and neur- 
algic affections. There is a case of hysteria related in the 
Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, 
(Vol. I. p. 123.) by G. Skipton, Esq., in which a decoction of 
the leaves of the M. azadikachta was given with the best 
effects. As the species we have been describing has nearly 
similar properties, a trial might be made of a similar prepara- 
tion of its leaves. 
It is mentioned in the third volume of the Transactions of 
the Medical Society of Calcutta, that Dr Piddington had 
obtained from the M. azadirachta, a bitter febrifuge principle, 
in the form of small white shining crystals, which lie styles 
Azadirine. There is no doubt but that it also might be pro- 
cured from the plant before us. 
A gum may be obtained by making incisions in the bark. 
The branches being long and supple, it has been proposed to 
employ them in making hoops. 
II. TltlCHILIA. 
Calyx 4-5 toothed. Petals 4-5, ovate or suboblong. 
Stamens 8-10 ; filaments either subdistinct or closely 
united into a tube, antheriferous internally at the 
apex. Capsule 3-valved, 3-cel led (rarely 2-valved, 
2-celled), with the valves septiferous at their middle ; 
cells 1-2 seeded. Seeds baccato-arillated, exalbumi- 
nous : embryo inverted : cotyledons 2, very thick. 
— De Cand. 
Shrubby trees. — Name , from rg/p/a ternary , from the circum- 
stance, that nearly all parts of the plant are produced in threes. 
1. Trichilia Sloanei. Sloane’s Tricliilia. 
Leaves impari-pinnate, leaflets 3-4-paired ovato- 
lanceolate or elliptic acuminate, racemes axillary to- 
wards the ends of' the branches, filaments cohering 
into a tube for ^ths of their length villous. 
Pruno forte affinis arbor, folio alato, flore herbaceo pentape- 
talo racemoso, Sloane, II. 128. t. 220. f. 1. — T. hirta? Swartz, 
Obs. 171. — De Cand. Prod. I. G22. 
