Uses.--The fruit of both species has the same therapeutical application being stomachic and carminative par excellence. It yields an aromatic essential oil with stimulant properties, popular because of its agreeable odor and taste. As a rule the infusion is given in doses of one liter a day (15-30 grams of the seeds to one liter of water). The essence and the alcoholate are also employed, the former obtained by distillation, the latter by macerating the fresh seeds in alcohol. The dose of the essence, 4-8 drops on a piece of sugar or in potion; the alcoholate, 2-10 grams in sweetened water or infusion of aromatic herbs. Both plants are official in the Spanish Pharmacopoeia and they and their preparations are common in all drug stores. Habitat.--Common, cultivated in the gardens and well known. Botanical Description.--_F. vulgare_: Aromatic, stout, smooth herb, 4-6° high. Leaves with many slender thread-like divisions. Large umbel of yellow flowers, no involucre and no involucels. _C. sativum_: Low aromatic herb, leaves pinnately compound, small umbels with few rays, flowers white. CORNACEÆ. Dogwood Family. _Alangium Lamarkii_, Thwaites. (_A. decapetalum_, _hexapetalum_ and _tomentosum_, Lam.) Nom. Vulg.--(?) Uses.--According to Mooden Sheriff, the root bark is an efficient emetic in doses of 3 grams. In smaller doses it is febrifuge and produces nausea. The bark is extremely bitter; its reputation in the treatment of skin diseases is undeserved. It is a good substitute for ipecac, having given good results in all conditions in which the latter is indicated, with the exception of dysentery. The febrifuge dose is 0.35-0.60 gram; alterative, 0.15-0.30 gram. It is furthermore prescribed in India for syphilis and leprosy and is one of the many remedies used for the bites of rabid animals. The bruised leaves are applied to the joints of rheumatic patients. Botanical Description.--A tree 20-30 meters high, leaves alternate, persistent, petiolate, no stipules, oblong, dentate, acuminate, pinnately nerved. Flowers whitish, regular, hermaphrodite, in terminal cymes. Receptacle concave. Calyx short, 10-toothed. Corolla, 10 narrow, elongated ribbon-like petals. Stamens 30-40, filaments free and glabrous. Ovary inferior, held in the concavity of the receptacle, one-celled, with 1 seed, crowned by an epigynous disc, above which rises a simple style with dilated stigma. Fruit a globose drupe, crowned by the calyx, with 10 inconspicuous ribs. The putamen encloses an albuminous kernel. Habitat.--The mountains of San Mateo. DICOTYLEDONOUS, GAMOPETALOUS. RUBIACEÆ. Madder Family. _Hymenodictyon excelsum_, Wall. (_H. Horsfieldii_, Miq.; _Chinchona excelsa_, Roxb.; _Exostema Philippicum_, Blanco.) Nom. Vulg.--_Huligaga_, Tag.