PRIDE OF INDIA, PRIDE 9F CIIINA, or bead tree. Au oriental tree which has become naturalized in most warm countries. It is a species of the genius melia, of the family me;eaccte. The pride of India, India azederaeh, is a native of India and China, and attains a heightof from 20 to 40 ft., and a diameter of trunk of about 3 ft. The leaves are bipinnate, each division having five lance-ovate, acuminate, and serrate leaf lets. The flowers are in large axillary lilac-colored panicles; calyx small, Corolla with spreading petals: stamens 10, united into a tube which forms a conspicuous part of the flower. Fruit about as large as a cherry, ovoid in shape and fleshy, containing a five celled. five-seeded, elongated, bony nut. The tree is quite common iu the southera United States. It is rapid of growth, soon producing an ample shade, but the odor is rather unpleasant. The bark of the root, in which the active principle resides, has been used in medicine from time immemorial as a vermifuge, and it resembles in its physio logical and therapeutic action the sigyelia marylandica, or Carolina pink. Conflicting
statements are made in regard to the effects of the berries, some accounts stating that children have been poisoned by eating them, while others are to the contrary. They are eaten by birds and horses and cows, and horses eat the leaves without injury. As a vermifuge the root-bark is used in the form of a decoction, made by boiling two ounces of the hark in a pint of water till it is reduced to one-half. For a child of three to five years a tablespoonful of this is given every three hours till the stomach and bowels are affected, and it should be followed by a cathartic, or infusion of senna may be given with it, as with pink root.
a t. of Andalusia, Spain, 45 m. s.e. of Cordova. The inhabitants of Priego are chiefly occupied in husbandry. There are oil-mills, flour-mills, tanneries, and teries. There were formerly very important silk manufactures, but these have become inconsiderable. Pop. over 13,000.