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Cephaelis Ipecacuanha. Ipecacuanha. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Rubiace*:. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx tubus obovatus, limbus brevissirnus 5-dentattis. 

 Corolla subinfundibuliformis, lobis 5 parvis obtusiusculis. 

 Anthers inclusse. Stigma bifidum, saepius exsertum. Bacca 

 obovato-oblonga, calycis vestigio coronata, bilocularis, dis- 

 perma. — Prutices aut Herbas, omnes (?) ex America. Folia 

 ovalia acuta petiolata. Stipula? utrinque bince libera aut 

 concrete et tunc aut bidentatce aut partita. Capitula fo- 

 rum terminalia aut axillaria sessilia aut pedunculata, brae- 

 teis 2 — 8 cruciatim oppositis involucrata. Bracteolas seu 

 palea? inter flores. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Cephaelis* Ipecacuanha; caule ascendente simplici,, foliis 



obovatis acutis integerrimis brevissimis petiolatis gla- 



briusculis, capitulo terminali pedunculato solitario, in- 



volucro tetraphyllo, radice annulata. 

 Cephaelis Ipecacuanha. "Rich. Hist. Ipec. p. 21. t. 2." 



H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. v, 3. p. 376. Mart. PL Us. 



Bres. p. 6. t. 6. Med. PL Bras. p. 4. t. 1. et t. 8. / 



I, 2, 3. 

 Cephaelis emetica. Pers. Syn. 1. p. 203. 

 Callicocca Ipecacuanha. Brot. in Linn. Trans, v. 6. p. 



137.*. II. 



This interesting plant has no beauty to recommend it to cultivation 

 as an ornamental plant ; but its value in a medicinal point of view will, 

 I am sure, render a figure of it acceptable to our Subscribers. The 

 Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew are indebted to Mr. Maxot of Liege 

 for a living plant, wliich flowered in the stove in January, 1843 ; and 

 from it our flowering specimen was drawn : the representation of the 



root 



* From xttpa**,, a head, so called from the capitate flowers, which are 

 common to the species of this Genus. 



