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Updated: April 30, 2025
Its leaf has an extraordinary roughness, on which account it is employed to give the last fine polish to carvings in wood ivory, particularly the handles and sheaths of their krises, on which they bestow much labour. The leaf of the sipit also, a climbing species of fig, having the same quality, is put to the same use.
The leaves are used in disorders of the bowels. A shrub bearing a semiflosculous blossom, applied to the cure of sore eyes. The pods of this are of a huge size, and the beans, of a fine crimson colour, are used in diseases of the pleura. Sipit, a species of fig, with a large oval leaf, rough to the touch, and rigid. An infusion of it is swallowed in iliac affections.
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