Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 83
greedily, and they will be intoxicated. They will
swim upon the surface with their belly upward,
and may be taken out with the hands. They are
not the worse for eating.
The Codaga Shrub. Codaga pali.
A LITTLE shrub frequent in the East Indies,
and verv beautiful, as well as useful. It grows
ten or fifteen feet high ; the branches are brittle,
and the wood is white. The leaves are long- and.
narrow, not at all notched at the edges, aud of a
beautiful green on both sides ; the Mowers are huge
and white, and somewhat resemble those of inc rose-
bay, or neriun, of which some make ir a kind.
Each, flower is succeeded bv two large pods, which
are joined at the vnd*. and twist one about the
other ; they are foil of a cottony
matter about (he
seeds. The whole plant is full of a milky juice,
which it yields plentifully when broken.
The bark is the only part used ; it is but newly
introduced into medicine, but may be had of -the
druggists; it is an excellent remedy for purgings.
It is to be in given powder for three or four da's,
and a vomit or bleeding before the use of it, as may
be found necessary.
The Coffee-Tree. Arbor cojfee ferens.
, l uii.'il F.il L snnn; oi the eastern pair of
the world, which we keep in many of our *fo\e> r
and which flowers and hears jfj.- (Voit with us. It
grows eight or ten feet high ; the branches are
nJer and wee.!;; the leaves are
large, obl< ug,
and broad, somewhat like those of the ha v- tree,
'out bigger, and thin. The flowers are white, nmd-rutely
huge, and like jasmine ; the fruit is a