CUCURBITALES.] DATISCACE^. 317 



Datisca is bitter and purgative ; it is occasionally used in Italy in fevers, as well 

 as gastric and scrofulous complaints. Chemists have found in its roots a kind of 

 starch analogous to Inuline, They call it Datiscine. 



GENERA. 



Datisca, L. 

 Tetrameles, R. Br. 



Anictoclea, Nimmo. 

 Tricerastes, Presl. 



Numbers. Gen. 3. Sp. 4. excluding Datisca hirta, which Mr. Bennett has ascertained 

 to be Rhus Typhuaum. 



Position. — Cucurbitacese. — Datiscace^. — Begoniacese. 

 LoasacecB ? 



