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X. Defcript'wn rf Calficocca Ipecacuanha, 

 By Felix Avellar Broi^fo, Profcffor rf Botany in the Univerfty <f 



Coimbra, F.M. L.S, 

 Kead February 2^, i8oi. 



CALLICOCCA Ipecacuanha. 



i^ALLICOCCA caule afcendente, fuffruticoib, farmcntofo; foliis 

 ovato-lanceolatis, inferne fubpubcfcentibus ; capitulo tcrmiiiali, 

 pedunculatoj involucro tetraphyllo, folioljs fubcordatis; corollis 

 quinquefidis- 



Tapogomeae fpecierum congener. D. Dc la MarcL Illujlr, Gen, Didl. 

 Bot. 



Ipecacuanha fufca. Pif. BraJ. p. loi. //. Margr. BraJ, p, 17. 

 Brafilienfibus aliis Ipecacuanha -, aliis Poaia do Matio^ in auftraiioribiis 

 Brafilias locis; Cipo aliis, uti etiam Portugallenfibus. 



Pharm. Ipecacuanhse fufcae f. brunce Radix, aut Radix Brafilienfis 

 1^ antidylenterica. 



Radix perennis, fimplex aut fubramofa, fubteres, fa^pius perpendicu- 

 laris, raio leviter obliqua ; duas, tres, quatuorve uncias et ultra 

 longa; fuperne gracilior, crafTitudine et fimilitudine caulis, fa^pius 

 hie illicve brevibus radiculis inftrucla (quarum una alteravc inter- 

 dum craffefcit); inferne duas trefve lineas cralla, vage flexa, extus 

 fufca, fubannulata, annulis prominentibus, inasqualibus, fubru- 

 gofis; fapore acri, amaro, odore vix uilo, nifi hcrbaceo. Dum 



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