The uses of plants : a manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years / by G.S. Boulger.

George Simonds Boulger

Date:: 1889

Credit: The uses of plants : a manual of economic botany with special reference to vegetable products introduced during the last fifty years / by G.S. Boulger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$BIXINE^. Gynocardia odorata, R. Br., of India, contains in its seeds an oil known as Chaulmugra Oil, introduced from the Indian Pharmacopoeia for rheumatism, syphilis, etc., about 1872, since when it has increased in popularity.* POLYGALACE/E. Krameria Ixina, L. { = K. tomentosa, St. IIil.), ‘ Savanilla ’ or ' New Grenada Rhatany,’ was found in 1864 to be equal, if not superior, to that from Peru {K. triandra, Ruiz and Pavon) as an astringent in dysentery.f Polygala Senega, L., SENEGA ROOT, is a North American stimulating expectorant and diuretic. GUTTIFER^. Garcinia Hanhiirii, Hook, fil., the main source of Gamboge in Cambodia, was described by Christison in 1851 ; but more fully, with a figure, in 1864,;]; by Hanbury, to whose memory it was dedicated by Sir J. D. Hooker in 1875.§ Gamboge consists of a resin, with fifteen or twenty per cent, of gum, H and acts as a drastic purgative. * ‘Gynocardia odorata,’ by Richard C. Lepage, London (1878), 8vo. ; Christy, ‘New Commercial Plants,’ No. 2, p. 3 ; ‘ Phar- macographia,’ p. 70; Bentley and Tiimen, pi. 28. t Bentley and Trimen, pi. 31 ; Hanbury, ‘ Pharm. Journ.,’ vi (1865), p. 460 % ‘Trans. Linn. Soc.,’ xxiv (1864), p. 487, tab. 50, under the name G. Morelia, vdoc. pedicellata. § ‘Journ. Linn. Soc.,’ xiv (1875), p. 485. II ‘ Pharmacographia,’ pp. 77-79 ; Bentley and Trimen, pi. 33.$