Pangium. Pangium edule.

Pangium. Pangium edule Reinw. (Fam. Bixaceae.)—This East Indian tree, which is said to possess anthelmintic and narcotic properties, and to be capable of causing death, according to Blume, contains an alkaloid resembling menispermine.

The Dispensatory of the United States of America, 1918, was edited by Joseph P. Remington, Horatio C. Wood and others.