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STERCULIACEJE.by tough, stringy fibres. Each cell is filled with a pulpy substance,which, when old and dry, becomes pithy, and in this the seeds areimmersed. These are kidney-shaped, brown, shining, hard, with a fewpale dots, filled within by the white fleshy embryo, whose cotyledonsare foliaceous, and singularly convoluted around the inferior radicle.Hooker. Mucilaginous. Dried leaves in powder found serviceable indiarrhoea, fevers, and other maladies. Pulp of the fruit subacid ; its juiceconsidered a specificin the putrid pestilential fevers of the Gold Coast.Fruit a common article of consumption among the negroes.140

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