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The seeds are used as anthelmintics, an aromatic liquor is distilled from the flowers, and the acrid, resinous gum distilled from the bark is used to destroy insects.

From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William