quassia

[Named by Linnæus after Qua i or Coi i, a negro of Surinam, who succe fully used its bark in fever; Ger, qua ie.] 1. Bot .: The typical genus of the order Simaruba cee. Flowers hermaphrodite; corolla five-parted; stamens ten, longer than the petals; the fruit con. sisting of five fleshy drupes. Qua ia amara is a tree cultivated in the West Indies and the parts adjacent. It has terminal clusters of large, red flowers, and unequally pinnate leaves. 2. Pathology : The Surinam Qua ia is Qua ia amara; Jamaica Qua ia, the wood of Picræna excels a. It comes to this country in logs or billets, and is retailed as chips or raspings. It is given as an extract, an infusion, or a tincture, and acts as a pure bitter and stomachic, and as an antiperiodic. An infusion of it is used to poison flies, and, form of an enema, to destroy threadworms. qua ia-camphor, s. Chem.: A substance which separates from an IMG:content-0069.png:[blocks in formation] II. Law : To annul, overthrow, or declare void through some insufficiency, informality, or other cause; to nullify. B. In trans.: To be shaken with a noise; to be dashed about. "To keep it [the brain] from quashing and shaking." -Ray: On the Creation , pt. ii.