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sufficient to destroy twenty persons ; see the Botanical Magazine, folio 29G8, 
for an excellent account of this plant. Strychnos colubrina is used in Java 
in intermittent fever, and as an anthelmintic. According to Horsfield, the 
Malays prepare from it an excellent bitter tincture. Virey says, in an over- 
dose it occasions tremors and vomiting. Ainslie, 2. 203. The St. Igna- 
tius’s bean (Strychnos St. Ignatii), called Papeeta in India, is prescribed by 
the native practitioners of India in cholera with success : it is mixed with J e- 
hiree or Durreoaye Narriol (Cocos maldivica). If given in over-doses, ver- 
tigo and convulsions come on ; but they are easily cured by lemonade drank 
largely. Trans. M. and P. S. Calc. 3. 432. Strychnos Tieute is one of the 
kinds of Upas. Royle. The seeds of Strychnos Nux vomica are well known, 
under the latter name, for containing a dangerous narcotic property, which 
modern chemists have ascertained to depend upon the presence of a peculiar 
principle called strychnia. Small quantities of the extract have been given 
with uncertain success in cases of mania, gout, epilepsy, hysteria, and dysen- 
tery, and also in paraplegia and hemiplegia. Ainslie, 1. 321. This strychnia 
is one of the most violent poisons hitherto discovered ; its energy is so great, 
that half a grain blown into the throat of a rabbit, occasioned death in the 
course of five minutes. Its operation is always accompanied with symptoms 
of locked jaw and other tetanic affections. Turner, 651. A peculiar acid, 
called by Pelletier and Caventou the Igasuric acid, occurs in combination with 
strychnia in nux vomica and the St. Ignatius bean ; but its existence, as dif- 
ferent from all other known acids, is doubtful. Ibid. 641. It is remarkable, 
that one of the most valuable febrifuges of Brazil belongs to this order. The 
bark of the Strychnos Pseudo-quina is fully equal to Cinchona in curing in- 
termittent fevers ; it appears to possess some of the dangerous properties of 
nux vomica ; but according to the analysis of Vauquelin, it contains no strych- 
nia whatever. PI. Usuelles, no. 1 . The seeds of Strychnos potatorum, Nir- 
mulee of the natives of India, are sold in every bazaar for the purpose of clear- 
ing muddy Avater. Bitter almonds are said to be employed for the same pur- 
poses in Egypt, as those of the Kola are in Africa. Notwithstanding the poisonous 
nature of the seeds, the pulpy part of the fruit of some species is eaten by the 
natives of the countries where they are indigenous, as those of S. innocua in 
Egypt, of S. pseudo-quina in Brasil, of S. potatorum in India, and even that 
of S. nux A^omica by birds. (Roxb.) To these exceptions to the general 
hurtful nature . of this order must be added Melodinus monogynus and Wil- 
lughbeia edulis in India, Carissa edulis in Nubia, the Hya-hya already men- 
tioned, and the Cream fruit of Sierra Leone ; all of which peld edible fruit, 
while that of Carissa carandas is also eaten in India, and made into a jelly, as 
the best substitute for that most commonly employed in Europe. Royle, 272. 
§ 1. Echite^, Bartl. 
Echites, L. 
Pycnostelma, Bge. 
Haemadictyon, Lindl. 
Ichnocarpus, R. Br. 
Beaumontia, Wall. 
Holarrhena, R. Br. 
Pachypodium, Lindl. 
Isonema, R. Br. 
Vallaris, R. Br. 
Emericia, R. et S. 
Peltanthera, Roth. 
Parsonsia, R. Br. 
Forsteronia, Meyer. 
Lyonsia, R. Br. 
GENERA. 
Apocynum, L. 
Cryptolepis, R. Br. 
Thenardia, H. B. K. 
Prestonia, R. Br. 
Balfouria, R. Br. 
Nerium, L. 
Strophanthus, DC. 
Wrightia, R. Br. 
Alstonia, R. Br. 
Vinca, L. 
Loch n era, Rchb. 
Tabernaemontana, L. 
Vahea, Lam. 
Urceola, Roxb. 
Cameraria, L. 
Amsonia, Walt. Strychnos, L. 
Plumeria, L. Ignatiana, Lour. 
Plectaneia, Pet. Thou.§ 3, Rauwolfie^, 
Allamanda, L. Bartl. 
Aspidosperma, Mart. Cerbera, L. 
§ 2. Carisse^, Bartl. Dicaryum, Willd. 
Carissa, L. Thevetia, Juss. 
Arduina, L. Vallesia, R. et P. 
Ambelania, Aubl. Voacanga, Pet. Thou. 
Hancornia, Gomez. Rauwolfia, L. 
Melodinus, Forst. Ochrosia, Juss. 
Landolphia, P. Beauv. Ophioxylon, Pers. 
Rouhamon, Aubl. Tanghinia, Pet. Th. 
Lasiostoma, Schreb. Cynoctonum, Gmel. 
Hunteria, Roxb. 
