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Water lily, 27

Wawalisan, 42

Weed, styptic, 100

Wood apple, 69

Wormseed, American, 202

Wormwood, Indian, 153

Xanthoxylum oxyphyllum, 63 violaceum, 63

Xylocarpus granatum, 78

Yate, 190

Yayo, 58

Zea Mays, 240

Zingiberaceæ, 228

Zingiber officinale, 228

Zizyphus Jujuba, 81 Mauritania, 81

NOTES

A ward or Barrio of Manila.

In the U. S. P. and P. G. Marsh Mallow is a synonym for Althæa officinalis, the root being the part of the plant which is used.

Journal de Phar. et de Chim., XX., p. 3811.

Daruty, loc. cit., p. xxvi.

Official in the U. S. P. under the name of Santalum rubrum, and used only for coloring alcoholic solutions.

Do not grow in the Philippines.

Waring, loc. cit., p. 170.

Journal de Pharmacie, Vol. XIV., p. 441.

L'Union Pharm., Vol. XXIII., p. 291.

European analyses make the amount 1-2.2 per cent.

Including tænifuges.

Names in italics are considered of especial importance by the author.

I do not join these diseases because I consider them identical or due to the same pathogenic agent but because the plants that follow are used indifferently for the diseases.

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