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ornata growing in Costa Rica and subsequently shipped to Jamaica. 

 Nothing is known of the plant yielding Honduras sarsaparilla, 

 although this drug has been in use for nearly four centuries. It 



FIG. 269. Flowering plant of (.<>!( hicum Burmanu, a form producing very large corms and 



extensively cultivated in Holland. 



is said to be derived from Sniila.v officinal is. The sarsaparilla 

 plants have short rhizomes which give rise to long roots, which 

 are the part used in medicine. 



A DRAGON'S BLOOD, re.-embling that derived from Calamus 



