BASSIA

(Lat.),n.f. Ba%s’si?-a, Italian botanist. Fr., ba ie, Sea established by Linnæus. [B, 42.]—18. butyracea [Roxburgh]. Fr., arbre à beurre, iltipé à beurre. The Indian butter-tree, the phulware of the Bengalese; a tree 70 feet high, growing in the subtropical Him a lay an regions. The fruit is edible, and from its kernels a yellowish-white fatty substance called choorie is expre ed. It is used as an application in rheumatism and contractures, as an emollient for chapped hands. as a dre ing for the hair, and to adulterate ghee, or native butter. It is also used in soap-making and for illumination. The flowers furnish a sort of sugar resembling date sugar. [B, 172, 173.]—B. djave. A species growing in the Gaboon country. yielding a butyraceous era act like that obtained from the Butyrospermum Parkii; perhaps identical with B. oleifera. [E. M. Holmes, ‘‘Pharm. Jour. and Tr: ‘ans.,’’ Apr. 5, 1879, g 18 (B).] — B. elliptic a. See Dicnopsis elliptic a. — B. latiolia [RoxhurÎh]. A Ceylon name for the Bryonia laciniosa. The fruit From Ba i, the name of an A genus of sapotaceous plants ig u T. ilipé à larges feuilles. Syn.: Madhura indica [Gmelin]. The mahwah-tree, or madhuca; a tree 40 or 50 feet high, growing throughout Central India. The flowers contain a large amount of saccharine inatter, and are eaten by the natives. On distillation, they furnish a liquor somewhat resembling Irish whisky, which, owing to the large amount of empyreumatic oil that it contains, is said to be very deleterious, especially to Europe ans, producing gastric irritation and often causing death. On expre ion, the kernels yield a concrete oil, mahwah, or mow ah, oil (or butter), used for illuminating pu s, to adulterate ghee, and in mak in; app! The oil-cake is used for vies fish and as an emetic. ha R. Jackson, “ Pharm. Jour. and Trans.,” Feb. 16, 1878, p. 646 (B); J. M. Maisch, ‘* Am. Jour. of Pharm.,” bh 1886, P- 250.]—B. long i folia [Linnæus]. A tree from 40 to 50 feet high, growing in Malabar and Ceylon. The flowers, roasted or boiled, are eaten. A yellowish oil (iloopaÿ-oil, illopennay) expre ed from the ripe fruit is used for the same purposes as that of B. latifolia, and in England for candle-making; it is aiso an ingredient of a preparation called CR ATT A Es which is used internally and externally by the natives in rheumatism and paralysis. A gummy juice obtained from the trunk is used jn rheumatism, and the bark is employed as an astringent and emoliient and as a remedy for the itch. [P.S. Moo too swamy, “Ind. Med. Gaz.,” Jan., 1887, p.3; B, 19, 172.J—B. nounjou. A species growing in the Gaboon connie Vener identical with B. Can furnishing a butyraceous product like that obtained from the But; permum Parkii. [E. M. Holmes, 1. c. (B).]—B’61 (Ger.). The oil, or butter, obtained from various species of B. [B, 257.]—B. oleifera [De Candolle]. An African species of doubtful botanical characters, perhaps comprising the two species B. djave and B. nounjou. It probably furnishes the smooth, plum-shaped, brownish seeds called djave and nungu, which yield an oil employed in the Gaboon region as a food and as an application in rheumatism. _ [** Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc.,”” xxix, p. 115 (B); B, 214.|—B. Parkii. 1. Of Hooker, see BuryRo- SPERMUM Parkii. 2. Of Don, a s} s said to furnish an excellent ReTity of gutta perch a. [B, 2/0.]|—B’siiure (Ger.). Ba ic acid. [B, 257.]—B sericea [Blume]. A Java species furnishing a variety of gutta perch a. [J. Moeller (B, 270).]—B. villosa [Wallich]. See B. latifolia.