Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

S32 FAMILY HERBAL.
high. The hark is brown on the trunk, and greyish
on the branches. The leaves are large and
longish, sharp-pointed, and dentated at the edges ;
they are of a dusky green on the upper side, and
brownish underneath. The flowers are inconsiderable
and yellowish. The fruit is small and
round. The buds of the tree are very fragrant ;
a brown kind of resin issue* from them, winch
sticks to the fingers, and this has that pleasant
smell.
We use no part of the tree, but a resin which is
produced from it. The druggists keep this. It is
brown some ; of it is in grains, and some in a
mass. It is used : only externally a
plaister made
of it, spread on leather, is applied to the forehead
against the head-ach ; and to the navel in
hvsfc.i'ic cases, but it does not seem to have much
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A very pretty tree, native both of the East
and West indies, and kept in many of our gardens.
The trunk is covered with a pale coloured rough
bark ; the blanches with a smoother. The leaves
are each composed of a great many pairs of smaller,
disposed on a common rib, with no odd one at the
end. They are small, oval, and of a pale or
whitish green. The flowers are large, and very
pretty ; they are part yellow, and part white ; the
white leaves of them stained often with red. They
stand in clusters, half a dozen together. The fruit
is a flat pod, broad, brown, and hard ; these contain
a pulpy substance, and the seeds a stringy mallei
with them. The pulp, strings, and seeds are
brought over to us, vied the pulp i c
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