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ON TALLICOONAH OR KUNDAH OIL. 
its operation, and in the bulk of the stools produced. When 
over doses are taken, it produces the most violent hyper- 
carthasis, cold sweats and vomiting, succeeded by collapse, 
and if remedial means are not promptly employed, even 
death. I may observe, that the negroes also use it as an 
expectorant. The best specimens are liquid, but it is more 
generally found concrete. The tree grows to the height of 
forty feet, the nuts being contained in a multelocular cap- 
sule. The oil is sold in the colony at two shillings a gallon, 
and could be procured in abundance from the coast as an 
article of commerce. I could spare to any of your medical 
friends, who wish to administer this oil as a remedy, a 
small quantity. I expect shortly to receive specimens of 
the root, stem, and leaf, and will forward them on their 
arrival. 
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REMARKS ON THE ABOVE PAPER. 
BY DR. PEREIRA. 
"The 'nuts' described in Mr. Clarke's paper, are the 
seeds of the Carapa Touloucouna of the Flore de Sene- 
gambie, a Meliaceous plant, figured in Sweet's British 
Flower Garden (i. 72,) and growing in dry places near Itou, 
on the shores of the Casamancia. The fruit is a large some- 
what globular five-celled capsule. The seeds (of which 
there are from eighteen to thirty in each capsule) vary in 
size from that of a chestnut to a hen's egg: they are three- 
cornered, convex on the dorsal surface, of a brownish or 
blackish red color, and rugous. Specimens of the seeds 
with the fruit, are contained in the Banksian Collection at 
the British Museum. In the Flore de Stnegambie, the 
expressed oil of the seeds is called Huile de Touloucouna, 
and it is described as being sometimes liquid, sometimes 
solid according to the variable quantities of oleine and 
