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380. SABBATIA ANGULARIS, Pursh. (American Centaury, Rose-pink.) 



a. Herb. 



Note. It is official in the secondary list of the U. .S. Pharmacopoeia. 

 It possesses tonic and anthelmintic properties, and is also used as a 

 deobstruent. Wood and Bache, Dispens. p. 726. 



ASCLEPIADACE^E. 



381. ASCLEPIAS INCAENATA, L. (Flesh- coloured Asclepias, Swamp 



Silkweed, Milkweed.) 



a. Boot. 



Note. The root is used as an anthelmintic in doses of 10-20 grains 

 three times a day, also in chronic mucous disease of the stomach. It is 

 official in the secondary list of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia; Wood and 

 Bache, p. 144. 



382. ASCLEPIAS TDBEROSA, L. (Butterfly Weed, Pleurisy Root, Wind 



Root, Tuber Root.) 

 a. Root. 



Note. The root is used as an expectorant and diaphoretic in pleurisy 

 and other catarrhal affections. Administered with Aletris. farinosa, it 

 is said to have cured many cases of prolapsus uteri. Wood and Bache, 

 p. 143. Asclepidin and Ascletin are prepared from this root. The 

 former is a kind of resinous extract, and the latter a crystalline principle. 



383. CALOTROPIS GIGANTEA, R. B. 



a. Root. 



&. Bark of the root. (Mudar Bark.) 



Note. Specimen a was given by Dr. Bidie, of Madras, to Mr. D. 

 Hanbury, by whom it was presented to the Society in 1874. The root- 

 barks of C. gigantea and of C. procera are official in the Ind. Pharm., 

 and are used in leprosy, syphilis, dysentery, etc. As an alterative tonic 

 " the bark is given in doses of three grains ; as an emetic, thirty to sixty 

 grains. The roots are apt to become mouldy and inert unless kept 

 very dry. Ind. Pharm. pp. 141, 457, 458 ; Pharmacographia, p. 381, 

 note 7. 



384. CALOTROPIS PROCERA, R. B. 



a. Root. 



Note. This specimen is an authentic one from Dr. E. Burton Brown, 

 of Lahore. It was presented by Mr. D. Hanbury in 1874. Pharmaco- 

 graphia, p. 381, note 6. This species yields a portion of the Mudar bark 

 of Indian commerce. See Bentley and Trimen, Med. Plants, tab. 176. 



385. CTNANCHUM MONSPELIACUM, L. 



a. French or Montpellier Scammony, in a semicircular 



cake. J.P. No. 253. 

 6. Ditto, in porous fragments. 



Note. This is a factitious scammony prepared from the expressed 

 juice of the plant mixed with various resins and purgative substances. 

 See Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii., pt. i., p. 606. 



