CINCHONALS. 238 CINCHONADS. | 
Cepuakiis. Swartz. 
Flowers in heads, surrounded by a leafy involucre. Calya with a short- 
lobed limb. Lobes of corolla small, cbtuse. Anthers included. 
Fruit succulent, 2-celled, with the stones striated on the external side. 
1. ©. Ipecacuanha A. Richard.—(Trvs Ipecacuanna.) Fig. 316. a 
A creeping herbaceous plant ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, rough above, downy 
beneath ; stipules multifid ; heads long-stalked, pendulous. 
Habitat. Woods of Brazil. 
Quality. Emetic, narcotic. a 
Uses. Hooping-cough, croup, asthma, cases of poisoning, mucous catarrh, bronchial 
heemorrhage, indigestion, dysentery, &c. gree 
RicHarpsonia. Kunth. 
Calyx with a globose tube and a 4-7-parted limb. Corolla obconical, 
valvate. Stamens 3-5, projecting. Style 3-4-cleft, with capitate 
stigmas. Capsules composed of 3-4 indehiscent 1-seeded shells. 
1. R. scabra Aug. de St. Hilaire—(Warre Irzcacuanna.) Fig. 317. 
_ Leaves ovate-lanceolate, rough at the edge; teeth of the stipules shorter 
than their tube; heads many-flowered; calyx-lobes triangular, ciliated. 
Habitat. Tropical America in many place 
Quality and Uses, As in Cephaélis Bese 
Uncarta. Schreber. 
| Habitat, East Indies, Malay Archi 
t y Archipelago. 
Quality. One of the most powerful of pn astringents. 
Uses. Yields Gambir, a substitute for Catechu. 
Fig. 317.—Richardsonia scabra. 
