ArebJr°uYryP?8a95m'}  Notes  on  Some  Saps  and  Secretiojis.  95 
ant,  and  a  few  people  make  an  industry  of  the  preparation  of  the 
product  for  export.  Shipments,  of  late  years,  have  reached  £400  in 
value.  Small  balls  of  it  were  shown  in  the  Natal  Court  at  the 
Colonial  Exhibition  in  London. 
A.  indica,  Royle. — There  are  many  varieties  of  aloe  met  with  in 
cultivation  throughout  India,  some  of  which  have  gone  wild,  as,  for 
example,  on  the  coast  of  South  India.  The  inspissated  juice,  as  a 
medicine,  is  regarded  as  an  aperient  and  deemed  highly  beneficial 
to  persons  predisposed  to  apoplexy.  The  fresh  juice  from  the  leaves 
is  said  to  be  cathartic,  cooling  and  useful  in  fevers,  spleen  and  liver 
disease,  enlarged  lymphatic  glands,  and  as  an  external  applicant  in 
certain  eye  diseases.  The  pulp  of  the  leaves  is,  in  native  practice 
in  India,  applied  to  boils  and  is  regarded  as  acting  powerfully  on 
the  uterus.  It  is  largely  employed  in  veterinary  medicine.  The 
root  is  supposed  to  be  efficacious  in  colic.  A.  soccotrina,  Lamarck; 
A.  vera,  Miller,  is  usually  imported  in  skins  and  casks  from  Bom- 
bay. Soccotrina  aloes  may  be  recognized  by  its  reddish  tint  and  by 
the  fragments  being  nearly  transparent,  as  well  as  by  its  odor.  A. 
Perryi,  Baker,  is  indigenous  to  the  island  of  Socotra.  In  very  large 
doses  it  is  a  powerful  hepatic  stimulant.  In  small  doses  the  drug  is 
used  as  a  stomachic  tonic,  in  larger  doses  purgative  and,  indirectly, 
emmenagogue.  It  is  a  remedy  of  great  value  in  constipation  caused 
by  hysteria  and  atony  of  the  intestinal  muscular  coat.  It  is  also 
very  useful  in  atonic  dyspepsia,  jaundice,  amenorrhcea  and  chlorosis. 
Locally  applied,  dissolved  in  glycerin,  it  is  valued  in  India  as  a 
stimulant  application  in  skin  diseases,  and,  for  this  purpose,  is  gen- 
erally combined  with  myrrh,  constituting  the  Musanbar  of  Bombay. 
Hepatic  aloes  is  a  species  of  Arabian  aloes,  so  called  from  its  liver 
hue.  It  is  duller  and  more  opaque  in  color  than  other  kinds,  more 
bitter,  and  has  a  less  pleasant  aroma  than  the  Socotrine  aloes  itself, 
but  is  believed  to  be  the  sediment  deposited  in  Socotrine  aloe  juice. 
A.  vulgaris,  Lamarck  and  Bauhin  ;  A.  vera,  Lin.;  A.  Barbadensis, 
Miller,  has  long  been  cultivated  in  the  Antilles,  and  furnishes  from 
thence  the  main  supply  of  the  Barbado'es  and  Curacoa  aloes. 
This  West  Indian  aloes  may  at  once  be  distinguished  by  its  dis- 
agreeable odor. 
There  are  two  varieties  met  with  in  commerce,  one  presenting  a 
brown,  the  other  a  black  fracture  ;  the  former  is  the  best. 
The  culture  in  Bar  adoes  is  confined  to  the  small  farmers  entirely, 
