ORD. XL. Oleracew. 681 
Geoffroy, and some others, yet we have no doubt of their virtus, 
stomachica, resolvens, pellens menses, urinam, sudorem, as stated 
by Bergius, who recommends them only in hysteria. They have 
been long. thought to act with peculiar power upon the uterine 
system, and on this account we are cautioned against their use in 
pregnancy.’ An infusion of the leaves is sometimes drunk as tea; 
and the essential oil of the berries may be given from one to five 
or Six drops, on stigar, or dissolved by means of mucilages, or in 
spirit of wine. 
~ # Baccas Lauri interne damipt: abhorret cl. 5 picts ob’ vim prout dicit, 
infamem abortum promovendi, sanguinemque multum exestuandi, etiam ubi pauca 
solum grana data fuerint. In praxi hodierna raro exhibentur bacew; vidi tamen 
plures, etiam foeminas, que pulverem e seminibus Capsici & baccis Dawri, su 
memoratum, innoxie sumpserunt, oepe per octiduum, Bergius M. M. 324, 
a i 
LAURUS CAMPHORA. CAMPHOR-TREE. 
Arbor ex qua obtinetur Camphora, Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
SYNONYM4A. Camphora officinarum. Bauh, Pin. p. 500. 
Park. Theat. p. 1575. Ustical fem Japon. vulgo Kus 
noki. Kampfer. Ameen. ex mphorifer 
Japonica. Breyn. erot. pitint: cent. p. 11. ° Prod. p. 7 et icon. 
rarior. p.16. Raii Hist. p.1679. ‘Arbor camphorifera Japonica, 
foliis laurinis, fructu parvo globoso, calyce brevissimo. Comznel. 
Hort. Amstel. tom. 7. p. 189. tab. 95. Conf. Thumb. Fl. Japon. p. 
178. Trew. in Nov. act. nat. cur. tom. ii. App. p. 358. & Burm. 
‘Fi. Ind. p. 92. & Flor. Cap. Prodr. p. 12. . 
Class Enneandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 503. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cor. calycina, 6-partita. Néectarium glandulis 3, 
bisetis, germen cingentibus. Fiamenta interiora gem 
fera.. Drupa 1-sperma. : 
Sp. Ch. L, foliis triplinerviis lanceolato-ovatis. 
No. 51.—vor. 4, 8 « 
