NAT. ORDER. 

 CephcclidecB. 



CEPHiELIS IPECACUANHA. IPECACUAN. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Moxogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, superior, quinquefied. Flowers in an involucred 

 head. Corolla tubular. Stigma two-parted. Berry two-seeded. 

 Receptacle chaffy. 



Spe. Char. Stem simple, ascending, somewhat shrubby, sarmentose 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, somewhat pubescent. Head of 

 Flowers terminal, pedunculated, solitary. Corolla five-cleft, 

 chaffy. Bracteas large. Involucre tetraphyllous. 



The Cephcelis Ipecaciuinha is a perenniel plant, a native of Brazil, 

 and in moist situations in the provinces of Rio Janeiro, Mariannia, 

 Pernambuqua, Bahia, etc., inhabiting the woods, and flowering frona 

 December to March. The root is simple, or somewhat branched, 

 and furnished with a few short radicles; it is roundish, three or four 

 inches in length and two or three lines in thickness, irregularly bent, 

 externally of a brown color, and annulated with numerous promi- 

 nent, unequal rings ; the steiii is procumbent at the base, rising 

 from five to nine inches in height, round, the thickness of a hen's 

 quill ; smooth, leafless, of a brownish color, luiotted at the lower 

 part, and leafy towards the upper : after the first year it throws out 

 a few knotty runners, from which, about six inches apart, new stems 

 arise ; the itiferior leaves are caduous, so that not more than eight 

 generally remain at the summit of each stem, where it flowers : they 

 are nearly sessile, opposite, spreading, ovate, pointed at both ends, 

 tliree or four inches long and less than two broad ; of a bright 

 green on the upper surface, beneath of a whitish green color, pu- 

 bescent, varied; at the base of each pair of leaves, is a pair of 



