141 
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TFIE root is perennial, tapering, unequal, compad, rugofe 
ily brown, internally wliitiili, and fuiniilied with nurnero'is 
fi 
the leaves are various, of 
dent2 
r z:::* 
d5pointed,veined, and placed 
rregular Ihape, lobed, ferrated, or rather 
^./9 
P 
1 
radical footftalks.whicl 
\ 
are winged tov^ards the leaves : the fcap 
gh, iimpl 
3 
llower-ftem 
t.^ 
rife* fev 
5 
CLL 
e round 
1 inches in 
height, and 
> 
eacn 
of frudii 
difdndly m 
cation : 
■ recept; 
flowers 
5 
which 
rf 
ports an 
c 
examination 
a 
d fern 
the neceflary 
e difcovered 
3 
b 
occupying 
nider fh 
th 
whol 
e 
of 
difc 
rfed in the common receptacle, and 
the 
fl 
ament 
o 
with 
^1 
N 
1 
ftiffina 
;ermen, fupporting 
fi 
former coiili 
antherae ; + 
b 
f 
the 
of 
a 
llyl 
t 
*-- 
cap 
the feed is thrown out with 
when ripe, poiTeffes an elaftic p 
rminated by an ob 
** 
3 , 
coniiderable fb 
5 
It 
by wh 
4- 
South America and for 
IS a native 
of 
y 
le 
This pi 
of the Weft India iflands.i 
s 
was 
taken fr 
extremely fcarce in Europe : the annexed fi 
the Ro) 
de 
of 
Kew, where it 
ever 
ely introduced, and is, we Delieve, the firft of this kind that 
oes not fufficiently appear from what 
rew m 
n 
d 
authority Linnsus gives 
College has hov/ever adopted 
It 
the Dorftenia Contraj 
The L 
\ - 
m 
th 
(O 
ft of the Mat. Med. and in 
pliance with this we have figured the pi 
the fame 
muft acknov/ledge, that, upon the faith of Dr. Houfton, who examined 
the Contrayer 
in their native folL" we ihould 
wife 
have had no doubt in refe 
the officinal radix contray 
fpecies he has defcribed, as has been done by B 
But as Houfton has obferved, that th 
Dorftenia are 
lUS 
roots of differ 
d Murray 
of 
Cont 
promifcuoufly gathered and exported for thofe of the 
■** 
aver 
and 
Ca.O 
all the fpecies bear a 
mblance to each 
t T 
frandria* 
a 
%} 
J 
Vide 1, c. 
We do not find any fpecies of the Dorftenia mentioned in the Hort. Kew. lately 
publifhed. ^ ^ 
The firft fpecies on the high ground near Old Vera Cruz ; and the fecond on the 
h'gh rocky ground about Campechy in the 
73 
?/. vol. 37, t, igj 
^ 
^ 
Mat, Md, p' Ti 
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