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be gradually increased till nausea is produced. The bark has 
also been given in powder in doses of from 1 to 2 scruples : 
and an extract and a syrup have also been prepared from it. 
In any of these forms, it is a powerful anthelmintic in cases 
requiring medicines of that class, and seldom fails to bring 
away great quantities of worms. The antidote for an over- 
dose, is lime-juice, the effects of which, 1 have been informed, 
are certain, immediately relieving the nausea and delirium. 
A precaution is given, not to drink cold water during the action 
of the medicine. 
Tribe X. Cassiece. 
Stamens free. 
XLI1. Moringa. 
Calycine sepals 5, subequal, oblong, deciduous, 
concrete at the base. Petals ,5, subequal, oblong, 
with the upper one ascending. Stamens 10, unequal, 
distinct ; sometimes 5 of them sterile. Style fili- 
form, acute. Legume siliquseform, 8-valved : seeds 
3-gonal, attached to the centre of the fruit, exalbu- 
minose ; embryo straight ; cotyledons thick, oily, 
inclosed during germination within the spermodermi- 
um ; plumule none. — De Cand. 
Trees unarmed ; leaves bi- or tri-pinnated, with an odd one ; 
racemes panicled. — Morunga, Moringu, Mouringou , &c. are names 
by which the following species is known in the East Indies. 
1. Moringa pterygosperma. Horse-radish Tree. 
Legume triquetrous, seeds trigonal, with the angles 
expanded into wings. 
Murunga, Rheed. Malab. VI. 19. t. 11. — Rumph. Amb. I. 
184. t. 74. and 75. — Cuilandina Moringa, Swartz , Obs. 167 
Hyperanthera Moringa, Willd. Spec. 11.536. — Moringa ptery- 
gosperma, Gcertn. Fruct. II. 314. t. 147. — De Cand. Prod. 11 . 
478. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. Throughout the year. 
A tree 12-20 feet in height, of irregular growth. Root 
thick, of a soft consistence. Leaves alternate, 3-pinnate, 
nearly 2 feet in length : pinnae 3-paired with an odd one, 6-10 
inches in length : pinnules 5-paired with an odd one : leaf- 
lets petiolulated, of the lower pinnules 5-paired with an odd 
one, of the terminal pinnule 1-paired with an odd one, elliptic, 
