616 ORD. XXXVIII. Trihilate. 
others: from whom it appears, that this bark may be substituted 
for the Peruvian bark in every case in which the latter is indicated, 
and with equal, if not superior, advantage. 
The Bark, intended for medicinal use, is to be taken from those 
branches, which are neither very old nor very young, and to be 
exhibited under similar forms and doses, as directed with respect 
to the cortex peruvianus. It rarely disagrees with the stomach; 
but its astringent effects generally require the occasional ad- 
ministration of a laxative. 
See Murray, 1. c. 
TROPZOLUM MAJUS. = —~——SC GREATER INDIAN CRESS, 
Eqs Or NASTURTIUM. 
SYNONYMA. Nasturtium indicum. Pharm. Dale. 134. Berg. 
293. Sere A tv. 77. Gerard. Emac. 252. Park. Parad. 280. 
Ra Nasturtium indicum majus. Bauh. Pin, 306. 
Viola indica scandens, Nasturtit~sapore odore, flore favo. 
Herm. Hort. Lugd. Bat. 628. Ic. Curt. Bot. Magaz. 23. 
Octandria Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 466. 
Gen. Ch. Cal. \-phyllus, calearatus. Petala 5, inzequalia. © Bacca 
3, sicce. 
Sp. Ch. _ T. foliis peltatis subquinquelobis, petalis obtusis. 
ROOT annual. Stalk trailing, climbing, round, branched, smooth, 
succulent, several feet in length. Leaves roundish, marked by 
several radiated ribs, entire, abicarely five-lobed, standing singly 
upon long bending: footstalks, which are attached to the centre of 
each leaf. Flowers large, solitary, of a tawny yellow, on long 
peduncles, Calyx yellowish, large, forming a horn-like nectarium 
