248. Ceratonia.—St. John's Bread.

Botanical name: 
Ceratonia siliqua

248. CERATONIA.—ST. JOHN'S BREAD. The fruit of Cerato'nia sil'iqua Linné. Habitat: Southern Europe. Broad, flat pods, brown and glossy, divided into six to twelve transverse cells, in each of which is a sweet , black pulp having a single seed imbedded in it. This pulp is used as a laxative and demulcent, but chiefly as an ingredient in expectorant mixtures.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.