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330 HYPOPETALES. 
mirta Cocculus) have been used in some cutaneous diseases. 
They are narcotic and poisonous. Pareira brava, or velvet 
leaf, (Cissampelos Pareira), is tonic and diuretic in the root, 
and has been adopted into the London Pharmacopeia. Coc- 
_ eulus erispus, and C. acuminatus, and C. cordifolius are much 
used medicinally in India. 
Officinal Plants. 
Cocculus palmatus, 
Menispermum Cocculus (Anamirta Cocculus) 
Cissampelos Pareira. 
Poisonous Properties. — The seeds of Menispermum 
Cocculus contain a poisonous principle called picrotoxine. 
They are used to intoxicate fish that they may be caught; 
and have sometimes been employed to give bitterness to por- 
ter and render it more intoxicating. The seeds of this plant 
may be ranked among the acro-narcotic poisons. 
ORDER LXXX. 
RUTACE. 
Includes the Simarube@ of some authors. 
- Cuaracrers.—Trees, herbs, or shrubs, with opposite or 
alternate, simple or pinnate leaves with pellucid glandular 
dots and without stipules; calyx monosepalous, of 5 (rarely 
4) deep divisions; corolla of 4 or 5 petals, sometimes united 
and forming a kind of monopetalous corolla; stamens about 
Sor 10, attached te a hypogynous disk which elevates the 
“ovary 5 ‘ovary with from 3 to 5 lobes and as many cells, each 
having 1 or more ovules attached to the internal angle, with 
of lobes in the ovary, and a simple or 3- to 5-lobed stig- 
simple style, or divided at the base according to the num-_ 
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