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spathulatis. Corolle petala 5, calycis fauci inserta, minima linearia. 
Stamina circiter viginti, eum petalis inserta; filamenta libera, in- 
æquilonga, anthere biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovaria 
2, fundo calycis insidentia, libera, unilocularia, ovulo unico, v. geminis, 
pendulis. 5/y/i terminales, e calycis fauce exserti, sursum incrassati ; 
stigmata subpeltatim dilatata, crenato-lobata. Fructus ? 
Arbor Abyssinica, sexagintapedalis, ob vires anthelminticas celebris, 
ramulis tomentoso-villosis, foliorum delapsorum cicatricibus annulatis, 
foliis confertim. alternis et interrupte imparipinnatis, foliolis oblongis, 
serratis, margine et nervis subtus villosis, stipulis petiolo basi dilatata 
semiamplezicauli adnatis, floribus in cymas repetite dichotomis, divari- 
cato-flexuosis, pedicellis basi bractea ovata stipatis. Endl. 
Brayera anthelmintica, Kunth, in Brayer Notic. in vol. viii. 1804 ; 
Dict. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vol. ii. p. 501, cum Ie. flor. ; De Cand. 
Prodr. vol. ii. p. 588; Schimp. Tt. Abyss. Dict. 2de ed. n. 920. 
Cusso vel Banksia Abyssinica, Bruce It. ed. 8vo. vol. vii. p. 181. 
Atl. t. 22 et 23. 
Hagenia Abyssinica, Willd. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 331. i à 
Has. The high country of Abyssinia, Bruce. Ad pagum Dendera in 
districtu Urahat, provincie Tigrensis Agama. 1838. Schimper. 
Only one species is known to botanists. In the above definition of 
the genus, the character seems very correctly drawn, but our specimens 
are evidently either dicecious or polygamous, we think the former. Out 
of our two specimens, one has all the flowers as represented at our 
. figs. 8, 4, and 5 (clearly female) ; the other as at figs. 6, 7, and 8 (male 
flowers). The great Abyssinian traveller, Bruce, appears to have been 
the first to have brought the virtues of this plant into notice. He says, 
in his Travels, “ The Cusso (De Candolle calls it Cotz, or Cabotz) is 
one of the most beautiful of Abyssinian trees,—among the most 
useful, too. I never saw it in the Kolla, or Arabia, or in any other 
part of Asia and Africa. It is an instance of the wisdom of Provi- 
. dence, that the range of this tree does not extend beyond the limits 
. of that disease, of which it seems designed to be the cure. 
. “The Abyssinians of both sexes, ind at all ages, are troubled with 
= a dreadful complaint, which habit, however, enables them to bear with 
a kind of indifference. Every individual, once a month, evacuates 
large number of worms; not the tape-worms, nor the kind which 
roubles children, but of the sort called Ascarides. The method of 
