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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ...spread into more northern latitudes. Some are highly ornamental. The wood of many is red-coloured and astringent. Ilymenaia Courbaril yields a resin, the Gum Anime of the shops. The leaves and fruit of some are purgative, as of the Cassia Sennas and of the Tamarind. Calyx 5-toothed or bilabiate, deciduous or withering on the plant. Corol irregular, imbricated, subpapilionaceous, or nearly regular, spreading, of 5 petals, which are free, inserted into the bottom of the calyx. Stamens 10, or fewer from abortion, often unequal, perigynous, or inserted with the petals, usually free, sometimes united. Ovary free, placenta unilateral. Seeds without albumen. Embryo straight. Leaves alternate stipulate, impart-or abruptly pinnate, sometimes single. Hjematoxylon, L. E. D. Lignum, L. I). Wood, E. HmatOxylon CAMPECH1ANUM, Linn. Logwood. Decandria Monoognidi Linn. Logwood is noticed by Monardes for its medical uses; but it has also been long employed in the art of dyeing. It is a nativo of the Casatjnnea. LOGWOOD. 353 coast of Cam peachy, but is now common in the West Indies, as also in India. Fig. 58. A tree (fig. 58) of moderate size, stem generally crooked, furnished with spines In arid, but unarmed in moist situations. Leaves 2--4 from the same point, pinnate; leaflets 2 to 4 paired, obovate or obcordato. Flowers in racemes, shortly stalked, yellow. Sepals 5, united at the base into a permanent cup, the lamina of which are purplish and deciduous. Petals 5, obovate, a little larger than the sepals. Stamens 10, hairy at the base. Legume (2) small, compressed, lanceolate, pointed at each end. 2-seeded, sutures in dehiscent, valves bursting longitudinally in the middle.--Slw.ne, Hist. 2, t. x. f 1 to 4. The sap-wood of this tree, being
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