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X. Defcriptlon of CalUcocca Ipecacuanha. 



By Felix Avellar Brolero, Profcjfor of Botany in tht Univerfty of 

 Coimbra, P.M. L.S. 



Read February 2), i8or. 



CALLICOCCA Ipecacuanha. 



V^iALLICOCCA caule afcendente, fufFruticofo, farmentofo; foiiis 

 ovato-lanceolatis, inferne fubpubefcentibus ; capitulo terminali, 

 pedunculate ; iuvolucro tetraphyllo, foliolis fubcordatis; coroUis 

 quinqucfidis. 



Tapogomex fpecierum congener. D. De la Marck. Illujlr. Gen, Di£f. 

 Bot. 



Ipecacuanha fufca. Pif. Braf. p. loi. //. Margr. Braf p. 17. 

 Brafilienfibus aliis Ipecacuanha; aliis Poaia do Matto, in auftralioribus 

 Brafilia: locis; Cipo aliis, uti etiam Portugallenfibus. 



Pharm. Ipecacuanhse fufcse f. brunse Radix, aut Radix Biafilienfis 

 1". antidyfenterica. 



Radix perennis, fimplex aut fubramofa, fubteres, fa:pius perpendicu- 

 laris, raro leviter obliqua ; duas, tres, quatuorve uncias et ultra 

 longa; fuperne gracilior, craflitudine et fimilitudine caulis, fspius 

 hie illicve brevibus radiculis inftrufta (quarum una alterave inter- 

 dum craffefcit); inferne duas trefve lineas cralTa, vage flexa, extus 

 fufca, fubannulata, annulis prominentibus, inaiqualibus, fubru- 

 gofis; fapore acri, amaro, odore vix ullo, nifi herbaceo. Dum 



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