A native of hedges and copses, and the skirts of forests 

 in Brazil, near Villarica and elsewhere in the Province of 

 ihe Mines, where it is accounted a potent medicine in cases 

 of dropsy and dysentery. The bark of its root is powdered, 

 and administered in doses from J to IJ drachm; it acts as 

 an emetic. 



