114 AURANTIACE^, 



used than the drug itself. The leaves aftbrd about | per cent, of the 

 nitrate. 



The occurrence of another peculiar alkaloid in Pilocarpus has been 

 asserted, hut not ultimately proved. 



The leaves contain about ^ per cent, of essential oil, the prevailing 

 constituent of it being a dextrogyrate terpene, C^^H^*', boiling at 178', 

 which forms a crystallized compound C^'^W'^ + 2HC1 melting at 

 49^*5 C. 



Uses— Pilocarpine being a powerful diaphoretic and sialago^e, 

 the leaves of Jaborandi are used to some extent in pharmaceutical 

 preparations. 



^ Other Kinds of Jaborandi— This name, as above stated, has 

 originally been given to plants of the order Piperaceae, some of which 

 are still known in Brazil under the name Jaborandi. The following 

 may be quoted as being used at least in that country : Serronia 

 Jaborandi' Gaudichaud, Piper reticidatum L. (Enckea Miquel), Pip^^ 

 citrifolium Lamarck {Steffensia Kunth), Piper nochdosim Link, 

 Artanthe mollicoma Miq. 



^Mi 



XantJi 



hnglev, belonging to the same order as Pilocarpus itself, are also some 



times called ^s^hnYor^r^l ^ 



We are not aware that other leaves than those of Pilocarpus are 



m 



AURANTIACE^. 



FRUCTUS LIMONIS. 



Lemon; F. Citron, Limon; G. Gitrone, Limone. 



Botanical Origin—Citrus Limonum Eisso (C. Medica var. ^ Limi. '- 

 a small tree 10 to 15 feet in height, planted here and there in gf'^ei.^ 



Z ";f^>,f ^-tropical countries, hut cultivated as an object of industij 

 on the Mediterranean coar+ l..^^^^^^^ tvt-_- — j n^J^^ \r. nalabria, 

 Sicily, Spain, and Portugal 



between Nice and Genoa, in CalaM 



The tree which is supposed to represent the wild state of the lemon 

 and lime, and as it seems to us af'ter the examination of nunierou^ 

 ^pecimens in the herbarium of Kew, of the citron (Citrus Medica ^ 

 also IS a native of the forests of Northern India, where it occurs m t^ie 



.^aUeys of Kumaon and Sikkim. 



ere 



%om^>2ZT xrT '^"^^n-tree is of rather irregular growth, witn x- -= 

 of dep^ P^^i^' f Par«e> and uneven, not forming the fine, close hea^ 

 are o7f Hi *^"^ ^? ^° ^^"^^"S ^^ the orange-trel The jom^^ 

 excent d„ "^^^'^ ^^^ ^^^^^^> ^^^^^^ ^^e produced all the )'^ 

 unlexu^l T^ ^}^ "^^^^ ^^d are in part hermaphrodite am " PJ^ 

 delTcate ad''^' r\'- '^"^"^^^ externally purplish, internally whi e, ^«/^,^, 



yellow, ovoid, usually crowned by a nippfe. 



Already known 1-a p;^^ 

 " The original Jaboran,lf '.f i.- ^g *<> Peckolt. Dragenc 



fa -'i Jaborandi of P]so, accord- 1875. 163. 



loxff 9 Jal^rf.^^^^'' 



