, 85 3) 
Cuspesa. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. | 
_IT is generally admitted that this is a {pecies of pepper, and in the 
Supplementum plantarum a defcription of the Piper Cubeba, a fhrub 
- growing in the woods of Java, is given: but we have no certain 
account that this is the fpecies which furnifhes the officinal cubebs ; 
nor have we any information of the manner in which this fruit is 
collected. : 
The long footftalk attached to the Cubeba diftinguithes it at firft 
fight from the other kinds of pepper, and hence it has been called 
Piper caudatum. Though ftill retained in both the Britifh Pharma- 
ot aa it is much inferior to pepper, and has juftly fallen into | 
difufe. | 
—, 
Evemi (refina) Pharm. Lond, 
THE London College refers this refin to the Amyris Elemifera of 
_ Linnzus; but this celebrated naturalift, in applying the name Elemi-- 
fera to Catefby’s Frutex trifolius refinofus floribus tetrapetalis albis 
racemofis, has fince acknowledged himfelf to have been miftaken; as 
appears in the Amcen. Acad. vol. 7. where he fuppofes the Elemi to 
be produced by a fpecies of Burfera. 
_ However, the parent plant of this refin is ftill unafcertained. 
Elemi is brought here from the Spanifh Weft Indies; it is moft. 
efteemed when foftith, fomewhat tranfparent, of a pale whitith colour, 
inclining a little to green, and of a ftrong, though not unpleafant 
{mell. 
_ Its ufe is confined to ointments and plafters.. 
— Gamsocia (gummi-refina) Pharm, Lond. & Edinb, 
BY the induftry of Koenig, a phyfician who refided many years. 
at Tranquebar, it has been lately difcovered’ that the genuine Gam- 
boge is the concrete juice of a tree which conftitutes.a new genus,. 
under the name Stalagmitis (Schr. Gen. 1585). It belongs to the 
elafs a moneecia, and is fully defcribed by Profeflor Murray 
in the Comment. Gotting. (9. p. 175.) and App. Med. Vol. 4.. 
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