(a8 3. 
Having, in the firft part of Medical Botany, publifhed a plate of 
Gratiola and Beccabunga, we have now figured all the medicinal 
plants clafled by Profeflor Murray in the order Perfonate, except 
Scrophularia nodofa and aquatica, Avicennia tomentofa, or Anacar- 
dium orientale, and Acanthus mollis. The two firft are both natives 
of this country, and known by the names of Great or knobby-rooted 
Figwort, and Water Figwort. They have an ungrateful {mell, re- 
fembling that of the Linaria, and like it alfo have been chiefly em- 
ployed, with a view to their fedative and antiphlogiftic effects, as an 
application to hemorrhoidal tumours. The fynonyma of the Avicen- 
nia tomentofa Sy/. Veg. are Bontia germinans Sf. f/. Bontia foliis 
fubtus tomentofis. Facg. Sel. Stirp. dmer. Anacardium orientale off. 
The Malacca Bean. a 
_ Jacquin, however, contrary to the opinion of Linnzus, thinks 
that this tree, which is a native of both Indies, does not produce the 
Malacca bean, but that the parent of this fruit is ftill undefcribed. It 
may alfo be added, that the medicinal qualities of Anacardium orien- 
tale are not yet fufficiently afcertained. _ 
Acanthus mollis, Smooth Acanthus, or Bear’s-breech, or Branca 
urfina, of the foreign pharmacopceias, is a native of Italy and Sicily; 
and, as containing a mucilaginous matter, has been recommended in 
the character of an emollient and demulcent; but we do not find any 
inftances of its efficacy recorded, ‘y 
SOLANACEZ. 
