Messrs. Bentley and Trimen go on to say that in 
Engler’s revision of the genus for Martius’ Flora Brasil- 
iensis, a plant from Southern Brazil described as P. Sel- 
loanus, agrees still more closely with Jaborandi, but its 
fruit also is unknown. It differs in the longer, thinner, 
and less horizontal pedicels, and is collected near Assomp- 
tion (in Paraguay) for export to Europe. Mr. Baillon 
concludes that both plants, whether species or varieties, 
yield the drug ; and Dr. Trimen places P. Selloanus as a 
doubtful synonym of pennatifolius. 
- Other plants called Jaborandi, and having the same 
medicinal properties, are yielded in Brazil by, amongst 
others, six species of Piperacee, an Aubletia, Rich. (Mon- 
mera, Linn.), and a Xanthozylon. 
As a drug the P. pennatifolius was introduced into 
European practice by Dr. Coutinho, of Pernambuco, who 
gave specimens of it to Professor Gubler, of Paris, 
who tested it and found it to be an energetic sialogogue 
and diaphoretic. The parts used are the dried leaves, 
which leave in the mouth a somewhat aromatic very slightly 
‘bitter and warm taste. They contain an oil and alkaloid, 
both volatile, the latter termed pilocarpine. 
P. pennatifolins was introduced into Europe by M. Libon, 
as an ornamental plant, found by him in the forests of the 
province of St. Paul in 1847, and was figured and described 
as such in 1852 in the Jardin Fleuriste. It was again in 
1860 figured in the Flore de Jardins, still in ignorance of its 
being one of the Jaborandis of commerce. It is a widely 
spread plant in Brazil, being found both in the southern 
province of St. Paul, and in the northern provinces of 
Ceara and Piauhy, and especially in the neighbourhood of 
Pernambuco ; and, as above stated, is also a native of 
Paraguay. In Kew Herbarium there is a specimen sent 
by M. Gibert from Assompcion in Paraguay, in 1858, who ~ 
described it as a tree of considerable height. 
The figure here given is from a plant that flowered in 
the Economic House at Kew in N ovember, 1891, where it 
has long been cultivated.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bud and pedicel ; 2, vertical section of flower; 3 and 4, stamens; 
5, ovary; 6, transverse section of do.; 7, ripe fruit :—all of the natural size. 
