ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 4] 
which hence got the name of Viola ( Ionidium ) Ipecacuana, and in Brazil they are said to 
be in common use as emetics. Those of this country are not stated by Ainslie to have any 
such properties, but he speaks of the leaves and young shoots as being demulcent, and adds, 
that formed into a liniment with oil, the natives esteem them a cooling application to the head 
after exposure to the sun, and I am informed that the leaves and young shoots are eat as a 
was never admitted into practice: but the fact of one of the least active of the order being 
endowed with such properties, affords strong grounds for inferring that most of the others pos- 
cured from different localities, I became sensible of my error, by observing that, however much 
the subject, I may observe, that characters taken from the comparative lengths of petiols and. 
rough the whole series. e degree of hairiness is equally variable even on the same plant 
apparently depending on different degrees of luxuriance, the early leaves, expanded under 
the influence of a moist soil and atmosphere, being sometimes nearly glabrous, while others 
