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Still, it is largely used in the manufacture of the aromatic bitter 

 known as " Angostura Bitters." This, taken in moderation, mixed 

 with a little sherry wine, acts as a tonic and stimulant to the 

 organs of digestion. It increases the appetite for food, removes 

 flatulence and acidity arising from dyspepsia, and possesses the 

 singular advantage of not oppressing the stomach as Peruvian 

 bark is apt to do. 



The name " Galipea " was framed by Aublet from the 

 vernacular appellation in French Guiana of G. trifoliata, where 

 that species is indigenous,* being found on the banks of the river 

 Orapu. By the inhabitants of Guiana it is also called " Inga." 

 Its leaves are trifoliate and smooth; flowers, corymbose; peduncles 

 shorter than the leaves ; flowers, greenish ; stamens, four, of 

 which two are sterile. This species is a shrub of six feet in 

 height. 



Other species with compound leaves are : — 



G. Ossana (D. C. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., ix. p. 149, t. 10). 

 A shrub of 6 feet in height, native of Cuba, about the Havannah. 

 Leaves trifoliate, smooth ; flowers panicled, peduncles longer than 

 the leaves ; .flowers small, greenish ; calyx 5 -parted, sterile stamens 

 5, fertile 2. 



G. lasiostemon, St. Hil. Syn. Lasiostemtcm sylvestre,^ees 

 et Mart, in Xov. Act., xi. p. 171, t. 19. This shrub is a native of 

 Brazil, in woods at Ilheos. The leaves are trifoliate, full of 

 glandular dots : the young ones, petioles and branchlets pubescent ; 

 racemes almost terminal, erect, pubescent ; petals villous on the 

 inside and pubescent on the outside, as well as the calyx ; stamens 

 fringed, villous, 3 fertile and 2 sterile. 



G. aromatica, Spreng. Syst. app., p. 91. Syn. Bajmtia 

 aromatica, Aubl. Guian., ii. p. 670, t. 272. Sciuris aro?natica,Yahl. 

 in Willd. Spec, i., p. 153. This shrub is a native of Guiana, and 

 found in the woods of Orapu. It is about three feet in height^ 

 with smooth trifoliate leaves. The racemes are spicate and 

 axillary. Flowers greenish ; 3 sterile stamens and 2 fertile. The 

 bark of the trunk is aromatic. 



* AuLlet, His. des Plautes de la Guiane Franoaise, ii. p. 662, t. 269 ; See 

 also De Jussieu, in Memoires du Museum d'Hist. Nat., xii. p. 493, t. 23, No. 

 .34 and D.C, in the same, ix. p. 642 and 148. 



