does also in repute of the drug derived from the powdered 
bark of the root, stem, and branches. This, the famous 
Mudar of Oriental physicians, is much used as an alterative 
tonic, diaphoretic, and in large doses as an emetic, and is 
used in many other diseases, especially in dysentery, as an 
excellent substitute for ipecacuanha. It is, however, not 
in the British or American official Pharmacopceias, but is in 
the Indian. 
C. procera has been long known in Hurope. Prosper 
Alpinus, at the end of the last century, alludes to it as 
a native of Egypt; and according to Aiton it was intro- 
duced into England in 1814 by the Duchess of Beau- 
fort, from Persia. It has been repeatedly raised at Kew, 
and lost by over-watering. The plant here figured was 
raised from seed sent by Dr. King, of the Botanical Gardens, 
Calcutta, which flowered in June. 
Descr. A shrub, six to ten or even fifteen feet high, 
with rather slender glabrous branches and leaves, the 
younger parts hoary, and inflorescence clothed with ap- 
pressed wool. eaves four to ten inches long, subsessile 
and amplexicaul, coriaceous, glabrous when old, young 
hoary beneath, oblong or obovate-oblong, acute with a ring 
of hairs at the very base. lowers one-half to two-thirds 
of an inch in diameter, in axillary peduncled subcorymbose 
umbels; peduncle and pedicels slender. Sepals ovate, 
small, green. Corolla-lobes broadly ovate, spreading and 
incurved, white without, purple within to a greater or less 
depth, with a white base and margin. Staminal column 
very low, with five bifid purple points, and as many in- 
curved (not involute) horns at the base. Fruit-follicles 
three to five inches long, oblong, recurved, rounded at 
both ends, yellow-green, bladdery. Seeds three-quarters 
of an inch long, with a long silky coma.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Sepal ; 2, staminal column ; 3, pollen-masses:—al/ enlarged. 
