Flora medica; a botanical account of all the more important plants used in medicine, in different parts of the world by Lindley John 1799-1865

Author:Lindley, John, 1799-1865
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Botany, Medical, Plants, Medicinal
Publisher: London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Published: 1838-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

LAURACE.E.

3 interior stamens. Stigma peltate. Fruit berried, placed on the expanded tube of the calyx. — Involucres deciduous. Leaves variable, with pinnate veins, in some nearly opposite.

700. T. Roxburghii Nees Laurin. 515. — Sebifera glutinosa Lour cochin, ii, 783. Litsea sebifera Pers. synops. ii. p. 4. To-mex sebifera Willd. sp. pL ii. 84-0. Tetranthera apetala Roxb. corom. pi. ii. t. 147. — Mountains of India; the Circars, Goal-para, Monghir, Chittagong, Sylhet, Cochin-china, Java.

A variable plant. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute at the base, smooth and shining above, more or less downy beneath. Umbels rather compound, nearly white. Flowers apetalous. Stamens more than 9. Involucre 4-leaved : the leaves roundish, concave, hoary on the outside. Fruit globose, black, about the size of a pea. — The fruit yields a greasy exudation, from which the Chinese manufacture candles of bad quality, and which serves as the basis of salves. The leaves and branches are full of a glutinous matter which is readily communicated to water in which they are bruised.

LAURUS.

Flowers dioecious or hermaphrodite, involucrated. Calyx 4-parted; segments equal, deciduous. Fertile stamens 12 in 3 rows ; the outer alternate with the segments of the calyx ; all with 2 glands in the middle or above it. Anthers oblong, 2-celled, all looking inwards. ? with 2-4 castrated males surrounding the ovary. Stigma capitate. Fruit succulent, seated

in the irregular base of the calyx Umbels axillary, stalked.

Leaf buds with valvate papery scales. Leaves evergreen.

701. L. nobilis Linn. sp. pi. 529. N. and E. handb. ii. 416. pi. med. t. 132. Nees Laurin. 579. La<fvt\ Dioscor. — Asia Minor, Basin of the Mediterranean, Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Common ingardens. (Sweet Bay.)

An evergreen bush or tree from 15 to 25 feet high. Branches smooth, green, densely leafy, with an aromatic rather bitter bark. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, wavy at the edge, rather leathery, quite hairless on both sides ; with a small pore and fine beard at the axils of the lower veins, on the under side. Umbels 4-6-flowered, somewhat globose, in small axillary clusters; enclosed in papery, scarious, roundish, concave scales. Flowers yellowish-white, glandular-dotted, membranous. Stamens smooth. Fruit the size of a very large pea, ovate, black, covered with a succulent coat. — Leaves and fruit are both aromatic; the latter enter into the composition of the emplastrum cumini of the London Pharmacopoeia. The fixed oil is sometimes employed externally as a stimulant.

*#* Daphnidium Cubeba Nees. Laurtis Cubeba Lour, is an obscure plant, known to no one since the time of Loureiro. Its fruit, the size of a pepper corn, is reported to be a powerful aromatic. See Nees p. 616.

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