Roots grey rather than brown, ocarcely bipmelaad: serait a 
_ Orrre. Pree. Pulvis I, 
 Vinum Ipecacuanhe. 
Florets 15 to 24 in eke: sessile, emia with small 
bracteas. be 
Calyx small, 5-toothed, superior, persistent. 
Corolla monopetalous, border shorter than the tube, divided 
into 5 ovate, acute, re-curved segments. — 
Filaments short, capillary, inserted into the tube of the co- 
rolla at the upper part. Anthers long, erect. Germen in- 
ferior. Style filiform. Stigmes 2, obtuse, as od as bee 
anthers. ™ 
The germen, when mature, becomes a soft, l-celled nitery, 
- a reddish purple colour, changing to black, containing _ 
2 small oval seeds. oe 
Wative of shadowy moist situations, in the forests of the 
provinces of Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Janeiro, Paulensia, — 
Mariannia, and other parts of Brazil. 
Flowers in December, Janvarys and Maxch---beetes rips = 
May. 3 
PSYCHOTRIA EMETICA. Pintindria fee. 
Cabinet specimen, Jeff. Coll. No. 380—figure of = plant, 
No, 38]. 
‘athick bark. They send forth a woody stem, about2feet 
: high, , divided into simple branches, which are erect, cover- 
bic nian vey aotions brown pubescence. ‘aay 
very tminute siscder! teeth, which give th 
ance of being ciliated; they are glabron 
vered beneath, when young, with minute brow 
cence ; petioles pubescent, also the stipules. — 
Flowers small, whitish, growing in small axillary c 
» the length of the petioles. They produce little raha 
— eval berries, of a dark-bluish colour, containing | = two 
oblong seeds, convex above, flatbeneath, > 
Grows in different. of South America—it is” imported 5 
from New Gren under the name of Raicilla. (Hum. 
boldt and Bonpland. ) © ne 
comp. LE. D. & UB 
Lu Bo Bee U.S 
fpesacannha Lorengee—each ne contains § gr. of ipecac 
