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MOMORDICA CHARANTIA L. Balsan-pear.. 
In India the whole plant mixed with cinnamon, pepper, rice, and oil 
of Hydnocarpus inebrians was used as an ointment for psora, soabies, and 
other cutaneous diseases.— Drury (122 , p. 306) • 
This plant was used in Haiti as a general insecticide, — Roar k 
(332 , p. 30). 
MOMORDICA SCHIMPERIANA Steud. Iuru. 
The fruit of this plant in Bast Africa was listed as insecticidal.— * 
Bally (50). 
CYCADACEAE 
(Fern-Palmlike Family) 
CYCAS CIRCINALIS L. Sago palm. 
The male bracts of this gytnnospermous tree were used in southern 
India as a narcotic and were called "madana-kama-pu* or "flowers of Kama," 
which were said to contain a property that intoxicates insects that rest 
upon them.— Dymock and coworkers ( 124 , v. 3, p. 383) • 
CYRILLACEAB 
(Cyrilla Family) 
CYRILLA RACEMIFLORA L. Southern leatherwood. 
Honeybees were poisoned by this plant, but only the brood was 
affected* The larvae died usually when nearly matured, often causing 
the colonies to be severely weakened.— Burnside and Vansell (72). 
DICHAPETALACEAE 
DICHAPETALUM HOHLANDII Engl. 
This bush was poisonous to cattle and goats in Africa. Sprays 
containing an extract of the leaves were nontoxio to citrus aphids.- 
Worsley (431 ). 
DICHAPETALUM TOXICARIUM (G.Don) Bngl. West African ratsbane. 
In Sierra Leone this plant was used to destroy head lice.— 
Daliiel (112). 
DILLENIACBAB 
DILLENIA INDICA L. 
This plant grows in India. A 5-percent alcoholic extract of 
the leaves killed 80 percent of the larvae of Prodenia litura (F.) and 
