(144 
Specific gravity—with respect to the consistence, — 
considerable. 
Concrete juice—abundant and glutinous. 
Smell—earthy, weak, not unpleasant; but when reduced to 
powder and taken into the nostrils, it stimulates actively, so as: 
to cause sneezing, and abundantly promotes the mucous dis- 
charge. , 
Taste—sharply acrid, acid, bitter, so soapy and mucilagi-_ 
nous, that on chewing a little of the bark the mouth is filled. 
with a thick viscous and tenacious froth, especially on the lips, the 
aerimony remaining a long time both on the tongue and patate, 
so as in some degree’ to excite nausea. : 
DESCRIPTIO BOTANICA ba once 
CLASS XVI fT. 
DIADELPHIA. QETARD ETD = 
weoon og . MONNINA. 7 
Syst: Veget: Flor. Per. et Chil. p. 169; 
Monnina polystachya: 
M. foliis ovato-lanceolatis ovatisque, paniculis polystachyis, 
drupis apteris. Syst. Veg. Flor. Peruv. et Chil. p- 171. 
_ Planta—fruticosa, viltosa. 
Radix—bipedalis, perpendicularis, simplex, fusiformis, superne, 
}-2-pollicaris, infixne: sensim — Serio" pallesceaa paucis. 
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