BONDUC ELL A

(Lat.), n. f. *l(ke4l)'la%, See GuI LAND IN A b.—Bonducellæ semina [Ind. Ph.] Ger., Boa duos a men, Cuiquiersamen. Port., silva do prago. Bonduc-seeds, nick-ar-nuts; the seeds of Gui land in a bonduc and Gui land in a bonduc ell a. They are emetic in large doses, but in small doses are used in malarial fevers, and an oil expre ed from them is employed in paralyses. Æ, Heckel and Schlagdenhauffen have extracted from them a bitter principle, in the form of a white powder, which Isnard has found, in doses of from 1} to 3 grains, to be as effective as quinine in intermittent fevers. [** Dtsch. chem. Ztg.,” “Dtsch. Med.-Ztg.,” Dec. 20, 1886, p. 1140; B, 8, 180.]