erthroxlon

[Gr. erythros=red, and IMG:content-1132.png:[blocks in formation] escallop Erythroxylon hyp eric i folium is called in the Island of France bois d'huile = oil-wood. In Brazil a per manent reddish-brown dye is made from the bark of E. suberosum. The young branches of E. areo latum , which grows near Carthagena, are refrigerant; its bark is tonic; the subacid juice of its fleshy fruit is purgative and diuretic, and from the juice of its leaves an ointment is formed which is em ployed against scald heads. Two Brazilian species, E. anguifugum and E. campestre, are used, the former as an alexipharmic and the latter as a purgative. E. coca furnishes the stimulant called coca (q. v.).