RONEN ae ASP—ASP. 
ai 3. Asclepias tuberosa. Butterfly-weed ; pleurisy-root ; wind- 
root. The root. Phar. U. 8. 
_ Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 115—figure of the plant, 
No. 116. 
For Nos. 1 and 2, see Dr. Ansel W. Ives’ edition of Paris’s 
P ia, under those names. For No. 3, see W.P. a. 
C. Barton’s Veg. Mat. Med. U. 8. Vol. II. 
A diaphoretic ; used in pleurisy. Dose of powered root, 3j 
to 3ss—of the decoction, pre by boiling 3ss of the 
bruised root in 0j of water, f3j every second hour, till it 
sweats, or till it nauseates. 
Asclepias vomitoria. ( Kanig.) Coorinja or Cocrinja. 
Asclepias asmatica. (Willdenow. ) 
Marsdenia vomitoria. Moon, Ceylon plants, p. 21. 
A thick twisted root, of a pale colour, and bitterish, some- 
what nauseous taste ; found in the Indian bazaars. The 
Vitians prize it for its e t and diaphoretic proper- 
ties. It is prescribed for children, to produce vomiting, 
who are oppressed with phlegm. Infusion used to extent 
of half'a tea-cupful. Possesses virtues similar to ipecacu- 
an, and hence been found a useful medicine, in India, 
in dysenteric diseases, both by the native and European 
practitioners. Stem shrubby, twisting, villose; leaves 
opposite ; petiotale, cordate-ovate, smooth above, but be- _ 
neath covered with short white hairs. eee 
It is remarked by Dr. Ainslie, in his Materia Indica, that 
the medicinal virtues of this root resemble those of the 
Asclepias tuberosa, or pleurisy-root; and it is chiefly no- 
ticed here, to lead to the investigation of our native spe- 
cies of Asclepias, all of which I believe to be active and 
medicinal. 
_ The Aselepias Curassavien, which is a native of Jamaica, 
is called (in flower) blood-flower, from its reputed efficacy 
in stopping bloody flux, and other bleedings. A decoc- 
tion of it is also said to be efficacious in gleets and fluor 
albus. Barham and Lunan commend it. The plant is. 
cultivated in our ‘n-houses, and its flowers resemble 
those of the jas decumbens. It is not improbable 
that the name of the Jamaica plant has led to that of the: 
species just mentioned, which is called flux-root. Its other 
name, pleurisy-root, indicates a coincidence of name with 
the properties of the Asclepias vomitoria of India, above 
noticed. 
* 
No, 93.—-Aspipium, Felix mas. Male fern. 
Orricirnat. Felicis Hadix. Lond. idii_felicis Maris 
Palit, Edin. Feliz mas; Hadi Dub Rost of the male 
