Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa With Particular Reference to Its Present Principal Commercial Products
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They are used by perfumers on account of their fragrance, and also in medicine as a tonic and stimu- lant, and have been employed in the treatment of cholera ; in a fresh state they are given in infusion as 444 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA.
a demulcent in fevers, and are also used in dysentery and diarrhoea. Hogs are very fond of the tubers, and cattle eat the culms. In Ceylon the roots are used in medicine under the name of " Kallandooroo," and also in Japan, where they are known as " Hama- sugi."—... 'The Useful Plants of India,' Drury, p. 173 ; Kew Museum.
Distribution : Upper Guinea.
Adouro root of West Indies {Cyperiis articulatus, L.). — An infusion of the roots is occasionally em- ployed to check irritability of the stomach in the endemic fever of the West Indies. — Kew Museum.
Distribution : Upper Guinea.
Cyperus exaltatus, Retz. — This plant yields a fibre.
— ' Economic Products of India,' Watt, vol. i., part iii., No. 75.
Distribution : St. Thomas.
Papyrus {Cyperus Papyrus, L.).
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They are used by perfumers on account of their fragrance, and also in medicine as a tonic and stimu- lant, and have been employed in the treatment of cholera ; in a fresh state they are given in infusion as 444 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA.
a demulcent in fevers, and are also used in dysentery and diarrhoea. Hogs are very fond of the tubers, and cattle eat the culms. In Ceylon the roots are used in medicine under the name of " Kallandooroo," and also in Japan, where they are known as " Hama- sugi."—... 'The Useful Plants of India,' Drury, p. 173 ; Kew Museum.
Distribution : Upper Guinea.
Adouro root of West Indies {Cyperiis articulatus, L.). — An infusion of the roots is occasionally em- ployed to check irritability of the stomach in the endemic fever of the West Indies. — Kew Museum.
Distribution : Upper Guinea.
Cyperus exaltatus, Retz. — This plant yields a fibre.
— ' Economic Products of India,' Watt, vol. i., part iii., No. 75.
Distribution : St. Thomas.
Papyrus {Cyperus Papyrus, L.).
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