Catalogue of the collections / compiled by E.M. Holmes.

Date:
1878
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    122. Rhamnus Frangula, L. {Black Alder, Alder Buckthorn.) a. Bark. ^ote.—This bark has been lately brought forward in this country as an excellent purgatiye, free from the griping properties of Buckthorn berries. It contains a httle prussio acid. The berries of E, Frangula differ from those of E. catharticus in having only three seeds, and the leaves are entire and feather-veined, not serrulate as in E. catharticus. See P. J. [1], vol. ii., p. 721, for form for decoction; [1], vol. ix., p. 537, for analysis; [3], vol.ii., p. 152; [3] , vol. iv., p. 889. For micr. section, ' see Berg, Anat. Atlas, taf. 40. For fig. of plant, see Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 65. See also P. J. [3], vol. vii., p. 102. 123. Rhamnus infectorius, L. a. Fruit. (Graines d'Avignon, French Berries.) Note.—These berries are used as well as those of E. amygdalinus, to dye morocco leather yellow. 124. ZlZTPHUS JUJUBA, L. a. Fruit. (Jiijuhe Fi-uit.) h. Twig, with the fruit on it, preserved wet. Brought from Nimes by Mr. D. Hanburj. 125. ZlZTPHUS ORTACANTHA, B.C. • , a. Fruit. ANACARDIACE^. 126. Anacardium occidentale, L. {Cashew Nut Tree.) a. Fruit. (Cashew Nuts.) See for fig. Guib. Hist, des Drog., vol. hi., p. 490. h. Peduncle and fruit, preserved wet. c. Gum. (Gadjii Gum.) Note.—The bark and pericarp of the fruit contain an acrid vesicant liquid which forms a dui-able marking ink. See P. J. [1], vol. v., pp. 268- 272. The gum possesses the same properties as gum arable; but is also shghtly astringent.—Bentley, Man. Bat., p. 491. Treas. Bot., p. 57. 127. Irvingia Barteri, Sook. f. a. Dika bread. h. Fat obtained from ditto. Note.—The Dika bread is used as food in the Gaboon, on the West Coast of Africa. It contains about 68 per cent, of a solid fat. This plant is placed in the Simarubaceffi by Bentley. See Bentley, Man. Bot., p. 474. See also Journ. de Pharm., 1857, p. 275. P. J. [2], vol. iii,, p. 445. Linn. Trans., vol. xxiii., p. 167. 128. PisTACiA Lentiscds, L. a. Resin. (Mastich.) h. Do. inferior. See P. J. [2], vol. ii., p. 282. Note.—Mastic resembles in appearance Ohbanum and Sandarac; from Olibanum it is distinguished by its different odour and glassy fracture, and from Sandarac by its tears not being cylindrical.