Cinchona: alternatives and connections

A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di/cious, and the staminate or male plant is very offensi…

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and a…

tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that…

A genus of trees of the order Canellaceae, growing in the West Indies.

The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and mu…

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

A more or less viscid, yellowish liquid, the bitter oleoresin of several species of Copaifera, a genus of trees growing in South Ameri…

An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indie…

A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two l…

The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is a…

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees…

A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Caesalpinia.

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come…

A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small ex…

Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.