ROSACE-ffi. 



serrated, veiny leaflets ; the terminal one deeply 3-lobed ; intermediate 

 ones very small; all .white and densely downy beneath. Stipules 

 rounded, deeply toothed. Flowers extremely numerous, cream-colour- 

 ed, with a sweet but oppressive hawthorn-like scent, in dense, compound 

 cymose panicles. Calyx reflexed. Petals roundish. Stamens nume- 

 rous. Carpels 6 or 8, sometimes more, spirally contorted, with short 

 styles, and large capitate stigmas. Smith. — Taste of the herbage and 

 scent of the flowers aromatic ; a fragrant water, forming an agreeable 

 aromatic beverage, may be distilled from the flowers. 



468. S. Filipendula Linn. sp. pi. 702. Eng. Bot. t. 284. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 635. Smith Eng. Fl. ii. 368. DC. prodr. ii. 546. 

 — Common in pastures in elevated situations. 



Root woody, with many hard elliptical knobs, through which the 

 fibres are continued ; these are black externally, white and farinaceous 

 within. Stem a foot or more in height, round, smooth, leafy prin- 

 cipally in the lower part ; panicled in a cymose manner at the summit. 

 Leaves chiefly radical, spreading or depressed, smooth, dark green, 

 elegantly pinnate, with oblong, narrow, opposite or alternate leaflets, 

 and as many, or more, small intermediate ones; all deeply, sharply, 

 and unequally cut. Stipules linear, acute, entire, united laterally to 

 the base of each radical footstalk, the stem leaves being furnished with 

 a pair of rounded cut lobes in their stead. Panicle forked, cymose. 

 Flowers on short partial stalks, without bracteas, erect, cream-coloured, 

 tinged externally with red. Petals obovate. Carpels 10 or more, 

 hairy, with short recurved styles, and large blunt stigmas. Smith. — 

 Both this and the last are accounted tonics on account of their bitter 

 astringent qualities. 



BRAYERA. 



Calyx campanulate ; limb 10-parted, membranous; half the 

 segments with pinnate veins and thrice as large as the other 5 

 with 3 veins each. Petals minute, subulate, opposite the larger 

 segments of the calyx. Stamens 12-20, short, inserted into the 

 throat of the calyx. Disk conical, projecting from the throat of 

 the calyx and pierced at the apex to allow the styles to pass 

 through. Ovaries 2, stipitate, each with 1 suspended ovule ; 

 stigmas dilated, slightly lacerated. 



469. B. anthelmintica Kunth in Brayers dissert, p. 6. 

 DC. prodr. ii. 588. — Abyssinia, where it is called Cabotz. 



A tree. Peduncles branched, taper, softly hairy, zigzag, bracteate ; 

 branches alternate. Bracts solitary entire. Down simple. Flowers 

 in fours, pedicellate, surrounded by an involucre of 4 bracts. Bracts 

 roundish oblong, obtuse, concave, thin and membranous. Kunth. — 

 Reported to be a most powerful anthelmintic. Small packets of the 

 dried flowers are sold by the Abyssinians ; and according to M. Brayer 

 are an effectual remedy for taenia when all other medicines have failed. 



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