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The pulp Is a nauseous sweet, the nut is flattencxd and vdnged 
on one side, the kernel small, flat, and sweet. The thick 
roots have a rough, scaly, warted Ixirk, which is yellow and 
hitter "but not disagreeable. The tree is known in Jamaica as 
mountain damson, bitter damson, and stavewood. It is 
dioecious. Simaruha is employed in the treatment of dysentery, 
lienteria, habitual colics. Immoderate fluxes of the menses 
from piles, and as a vermifuge. It is administered as follows: 
2 drams simaruba bark, boiled from 24 ounces of water to 12 
ounces and then strained. This is divided in 3 equal parts and 
the whole taken in 24 hours. 
ZACHIR. , F. (127) 
SOMMERGEFAHEEN I^R DIE FABRIKATION UND DEN HANDEL VON 
St^SSVABEN. Mitt. Ges. Vorratsschutz 3(4): 45-56. 1927. 
[Abstract in Rev. Appl. Ent, (A) 15; 558. 1927.] 
In the case of a severe infestation of cacao by 
Ephestia elutella (Hbn.) the larvae climb the walls of the 
store-room to pupate high up. The walls and ceiling may be 
washed with a solution prepared as follows: 3 pounds of 
quassia chips are boiled in 2 gallons of water, and after 
standing for 24 hours the decoction is poured off and mixed 
with a solution of 5 pounds of soft soap in 1 gallon of water, 
and finally diluted to 20 gallons. 
