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somewhat extensively the numerous medical and ceconomical products furnished 
by this magnificent family, though to specify all would fill a volume, extending as 
they do from some of our most esculent vegetables through almost all the neces- 
sities of man to many narcotico-acrid poisons. The species proven and established 
as curative agents in the Homeopathic Materia Medica, are, beside the eight 
represented in this work: Copzava, the oleoresin of Copazfera multizuga, Hayne, 
and many other South American species of the genus, prominent among which 
are: C. officinalis, Linn.; C. biyuga, Hayne; C. Langsdorfiz, Desf.; C. cortacea, 
Mart.; and C. Gutanensts, Desf.; the Cochin-China Derris pinnata, Linn.; the 
irritating Cowitch gathered from the pods of Dolichos (Mucuna) puriens, Linn., 
which grows in both the East and West Indies; the Central American Logwood, 
the heart of Hematoxylon Campechianum, Linn.; the Brazilian Barba de boi, 
called by Mure Hedysarum ildefonsianum, but more probably, from his descrip- 
tion, the H/. dagocethalum of Link.; Indigo or Indigotin, a blue coloring-matter 
extracted from different species of the genus /xadzgofera, growing in India, Africa, 
and South America, principally, however, from J/udigofera tinctoria, Linn., /, 
anil, Linn., and /. argentea, Linn.; an inferior quality of this substance is also 
obtainable from /sats t:nctoria (Cruciferz) ; Polygonum tinctorium (Polygonacez) ; 
Nerium tinctorum (Apocynaceez); Baptisia tinctoria; Tephrosia apollinea; and 
several minor plants; Laburnum, a South European poisonous tree, Cy#icus La- 
burnum, Linn.; Lathyrus, the European Chickling vetch, Lathyrus sativus, Linn. ; 
Mim.; the Brazilian A/tmosa humilrs, Willd. ; the powerful Calabar Bean, the state 
poison of Old Calabar, in Western Africa, Physostigma venenosum, Balf.; Jamaica 
Dogwood (Piscidia erythrina, Linn.), which produced in Mr. Hamilton such sud- 
den and powerful sleep that the glass from which a drachm of the tincture had 
been taken remained for twelve hours in his hand ;* the Alexandrian Senna, the 
well-known anthelmintic, consisting of the dried leaves of Cassia obovata, Coll., 
C. aculzfolia, Del., and C. lanceolata, Lam.; Tongo, the Tonka Bean, the odorous 
fruit of the Guianian Dipteryx (Coumarouna) odorata, Willd.; the Californian 
Astragalus Menztesti, Gray; the Guianian Evythrophlaum Guinense, G. Don; and 
the Brazilian Cabbage Tree Geoffroya (Andira) vermifuga, Mart. 
In the pharmacopeeias of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, India, 
-etc., and in general secondary lists we find more or less prominent the following 
members of this order: The European Broom (Cyttsus, Genista, scoparius, Link), 
a renowned diuretic, emetic, and purgative, which has long enjoyed a popular 
reputation in dropsical affections, though contraindicated in all acute renal troubles; 
it contains a body of the tannic-acid group, termed scoparin (C,,H,,O,,) to which 
its diuretic qualities are due, and an oily, narcotico-poisonous, volatile alkaloid, 
sparteime (C,,H,,N), which resembles, chemically, nicotia and conia in having no 
oxygen. The Oriental Fenugreek (7; rigonella Fenum-grecum, Linn.), whose 
fatty seeds are largely used in veterinary practice, mostly as a vehicle for drugs. 
The common Liquorice, a product of several varieties of Glycyrrhiza glabra, Linn., 
growing along both shores of the Mediterranean and in Asia, can ‘hardly be classed 
as a medicine, but rather as an adjunct to prescriptions, The Bengal Kino or Dhak, 
* Pharm. Four., 1845, p. 76. 
