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RUTACE^E 



275. PILOCARPUS. PILOCARPUS 

 JABORANDI 



The leaflets of Pilocar'pus jaboran'di Holmes or of Pilocarpus microphyllus 

 Stapf. Yielding when assayed by U.S.P. process not less than 0.6 per cent, 

 of alkaloids. 



BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS. A shrub 4 to 5 feet high. Leaflets i to 4 pairs, 

 petiolate. Flowers in long racemes. Ovary with 5 carpels. Seeds black, 

 angular. 



FIG. 147. Pilocarpus scUoanus Branch from flowering top. (After Kohler.) 



SOURCE, VARIETIES, AND ADULTERATIONS. The name Jaborandi is a 

 generic one, applied in South America to several plants possessing 

 diaphoretic properties. The shrub, Pilocarpus jaborandi, grows in 

 Brazil in the neighborhood of Pernambuco, known, commercially as 

 Pernambuco Jaborandi. P. microphyllus (which yields a large per- 

 centage of alkaloid), differs from this in absence of oil from their 

 tissues, by their reticulated venation, etc., is known commercially as 



