I.EGUMt NOS®. 
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(lard roundish, emarginate, longer than the keel. 
Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1). Ovary 3-ovuled. 
Legume stipitate, suborbiculate, hardish, 1-locular, 
1 -seeded — De Cand. 
Name, fiom avdygov the bank of a river ; the locality in which 
plants, belonging to this genus, usually delight. 
\. Andira inermis. Bastard Cabbage Bark. 
Leaflets 13—15 oblongo-lanceolate acuminate glab- 
rous, flowers panicled shortly pedicelled, calyx urceo- 
late ferrugineo-puberulous. 
Geoffraea inermis, Swartz, FI. hid. Occ. 1255 Wright, 
Phil. Trans. 1777, p. 512, t. 70. 
IIAB. Common in the mountains, and by the banks of 
rivers. 
FL. August. 
A tree of moderate height ; branches suberect ; at their ex- 
tremities terete, glabrous, ash-coloured. Leaves alternate about 
a foot in length, impari-pinnate : leaflets 5-8-paired (on short 
roundish ferrugineo-puberulous petiolules,) oblongo- rarely 
ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, for the most part rounded at the 
base, entire, glabrous, thin, with the nerves scarcely prominent, 
about 4^ inches long, and 1 broad : petioles minutely puberu- 
lous. Stipules subaxillary, lanceolate, persistent : stipels mi- 
nute subulate. Panicle terminal, and axillary, erect; branches 
subdivided, patulous, angulose, of a brownish purple colour, 
ferrugineo-pubescent : pedicels very short, 1 -flowered, nume- 
rous, crowded. Calyx turbinato-campanulate, ferrugineo-pu- 
berulous. Standard and wings clawed ; keel composed of two 
petals, smaller than the standard. Stamens purple. Ovary 
stipitate : style subulate, curved : stigma simple. Legume 
size of a large plum. 
The flowers are very showy, the beautiful reddish lilac of the 
petals contrasting well with the dark purple of the branches of 
the flower stalk. I could not detect that the legume, as stated 
by Swartz, was separable, when ripe, into two valves. 
The bark of this tree has been employed as a vermifuge. It 
has a disagreeable smell, and a sweet mucilaginous taste. Its 
effects are emetic, drastic, purgative, and narcotic. In large 
doses it is poisonous, producing violent vomiting, with fever 
and delirium. It was first brought into notice by Dr Wright. A 
decoction of it ( Decoction Geoffrww inermis ) has obtained a 
place in the Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeias. It is pre- 
pared by boiling an oz. of the coarsely powdered bark in 2 
pints of water, over a slow fire, to 1 pint. The dose for adults 
is a table-spoonful, and for children a tea-spoonful, which may 
