CrKOPODALH 1 \\, I \,.| N \, i 



P.100,of the third edition of mj / I 



'■;"— ' »' ''»'" «lar buiidlee, which continue to b 



;,t ^Malmost itinuousmaaa The parenchyma which 



''"••";'' ,'"« » l: ""» P^hes, which are watt red through ,1 ,„, 



; 1, , n ,,l,1 - I '-'•'■;•- -■-•ti-l .-.-I, ,whicJ.,a7reSrdBti,, 



..■rn..^,r.,.-al,,,.|ull: l rvr., r ; and t aimilar 



""""I";'!",,,,, and Peppers. A- thi, „ fr „ !n < 



," haaviaand Mirabilis, it ... . 



'■ '". '••■"•-...,-,„• of the Order. I however find a verj different 



Boerhaavu repanda, which baa toned « I, although its rings are brok. n by the ii I 



,i " | " u ""." ***<?* ellular tissue: its pitil containTmany fiatul* oi 



,l " 1 s l "' s ■«• »*«▼" "<' the warmer parts of the world in either hei 



ireely extending far beyond the tropica, except in thi 

 m Worth- weal America, and a few Boerbaavias in the Southern hemispl 



In consequence of the generally purgative quality of thi 

 raniilv,_i,ni- -.1 tln-ni (Mirabilis jalapa) was supposed to have been the true Jalap plant 

 which is, h.. Wt .vfr, now known to be a mistake. Sa Convoli The flower* 



•nd species of Mirabilis are handsome, as are those also of some of tin 

 but the greater part of the Order is composed of obscure we. Is rhe genua 

 consists ol bees or shrubby plant, agreeing in property with the Boerhaaviaa, of which 

 the specie* have gi oerally i metic and purgative roots. Boerhaavia hirsute is employ 

 >» icterus ; B. tub rosa, a doubtful plant of the Order, called 5 ,„„' in 



•ni. ia regarded as an antisyphilitic, but it is also employed as a culinary v. stable 

 rhaavu procumbens, an East Indian Bpecies, i- reckoned antifebril 

 Aublet, the root ol B. decumbens (called Hogmeat in Jamaica), is emetic, and caJ 

 ipecacuanha in Cuiana Schomburgk Btates that it is astringent, and ua d in the form 

 oJ decocbon in dysentery. Mirabilis dichotoma, the Marvel of Peru, called b\ the 

 trench Heur de quatre beures, and M. longiflora, two plants no« common in our 



dens, are very drastic. M. suaveolens, a species with an Anise flavour, is en 



III .\lr\icii aL'ain-t cli:irrlni.n nnH .-1...,,,,,.., ;.. ..„:„„ ' 



... - ----- .^. -J.. , „ 



m Mexico against diarrhoea and rheumatic pains. 



"■ ' Nutt. i num. 



Al.r,.„u.Ju« , , rr . 



■irabint, I.mn. ii I , lt fl 



JaUi)>u, Tour Tno 

 Oljbaphui, ll.rit. 



IV. 



ilitiekerlicMa, Kunth. 



I m. 



i 

 Bat. • um. 



Ti't-r . 



? Kjiilitl ■ • / 



• Nl Gen. 14. Sp. 100.! 



Position.- Amarantacea — N - 



TO* Order is now to he found in D. C. Prodr. Kill . p I 

 r ™ 1 that it is to Valerianworts thi 



often confounded with Valcriai 



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