( 33 4 
. * ‘The watery preparations of this bark remain good much 
longer than fimilar preparations of Peruvian bark.” 
4. “ The fpirituous and watery preparations bear being mixed in 
any proportion without decompofition.” 
5- “ That this bark in powder, and its preparations, aré much 
more antifeptic than Peruvian bark, or fimilar preparations of it.” 
He adds, “ From the evident qualities of this new bark, and from 
the fuccefsful experience I have had of it in intermittent fevers, &c. 
{ have every reafon to imagine it will prove equal, if not fuperior, to 
the Peruvian bark for every purpofe where that medicine is ufed.” 
Having before given an account of ASfculus Hippocaftanum, or 
Horfe-chefnut, the only remaining plant referred to the Materia 
Medica in the order Trihilate is the Trapa natans, called in the 
Pharmacopceias Tribulus aquaticus, or Nux aquatica (floating water 
caltrops). Its fruit or nut is of a quadrangular form, and contains a 
farinaceous kernel, which was formerly in eftimation for its fuppofed 
_aftringent qualities, : | 
SARMENTACE A, 
SMILAX CHINA. . CHINESE SMILAX. 
SYNONYMA, China (radix), Pharm, Geof. V. 2p. 30. Dale. 
167. Alfton.i. 409. Lewis. 226. Edinb. New Difpenf. 170. 
Murray. i. 339. Bergius 803. China vulgaris off. Ger. Emac. 
"4618. Banh. Pin. 296. Park. Theat. 1578. Ray. Hift. 657. 
Smilax minus fpinofa, fruétu rubicundo, radice virtuofa China dicta. 
Kempf. Amen. 781. t. 782. Conf. Sam. Gottl. Gmelin’s Reife 
durch Rufsland. T. iti. p. 32. ts 39. 
‘ -.. Dioecia Hexandria,. Lin, Gen, Plant. 1120 
“No, 6.——Part Il. R Gen, Cb. 
